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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 26, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 39.

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The Baraboo (Wis.) Camp-Meeting

By William Henry Thurston

THIS meeting was held, according to appointment, September 5-10. The camp was located in the central part of the conference, and the weather was pleasant, but the attendance of our people was small. However, we had a good meeting, and all present were strengthened and encouraged by counsel, prayer, and study of the Word. From day to day, different lines of missionary work were studied, and many questions were considered with profit to all.
Dr. W. T. Lindsay, of the Madison Sanitarium, with a trained nurse, was in attendance two days, and gave valuable instruction in medical missionary work.
The Sabbath brought a great blessing to the camp. The Sabbath-school lesson was a practical one, and the offering to missions amounted to fifty-one dollars. The Holy Spirit was present, and in the following services conviction rested upon all, and reconsecration for service was made. Four gave their hearts to the Lord, and were baptized the following day. The attendance from the outside at the evening services was good, and some became much interested in present truth.
No help was furnished from the union conference, nor from the General Conference, other meetings being in session elsewhere; but the Lord is ever present in the person of the Holy Spirit when his people meet together for worship.
The day following the close of the meeting the conference committee and the sanitarium board held a council, giving careful study to the work for the fall and winter. The work in the sanitarium is moving on very satisfactorily, and much good is being done. It becomes necessary, however, for us to borrow a few thousand dollars until our subscription list is completed, to meet some notes that are past due.
Among other things, the advisability of holding fall camp-meetings was considered, and in view of the small attendance the last two years and the expense of nearly one hundred dollars above receipts, it was the mind of the committee not to hold a fall camp-meeting next year, but to have the annual meeting quite centrally located, and urge all to attend. Some general meetings may be held during the winter.
It would be well for us all to meditate upon the instruction and exhortation given in Heb. 10:25, 35-39: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching . . . Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul."
Quite a number have accepted the truth as the result of our tent efforts, and many others are studying to see if these things are so. Some have become interested through the work of our churches. If we all work, watch, and pray, greater results will follow. Our courage is good, and the work in the conference as a whole is prospering, and the outlook is hopeful.
W. H. THURSTON.