Pacific Union Conference by E. E. Andross

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 4, 1913

Pacific Union Conference

By E. E. Andross

We have just closed our second camp-meeting in this union conference. The first was held in Stockton in the California-Nevada Conference, and the second at San Jose in the California Conference. There were perhaps five or six hundred in attendance at the Stockton meeting, and seven or eight hundred at the San Jose meeting.

We had the assistance of W. A. Spicer a part of the time at both these meetings. He rendered very efficient help indeed. The Lord greatly blessed the effort of his servant to lift the standard higher and still higher, and also to encourage the believers in the leadership of the Lord in this great movement.

Elders I. H. Evans and Meade MacGuire were with us the last Sabbath of the San Jose meeting. Elder R. C. Porter also spent a few days with us at the close of the San Jose meeting. This was a source of great inspiration to our people, and the help rendered was greatly appreciated. We were also blessed at both these meetings with the assistance of several of our missionaries from foreign fields. We were favored at the Stockton meeting with the assistance of Elder C. L. Butterfield, of Korea. He gave a very interesting and profitable talk on the work in his field. Elder R. W. Munson's two sons were present and spoke of our work in the East Indies, especially in Sumatra and Java. The assistance of Elders Butterfield, of Korea; Okohira, of Japan; J. S. James, of India; R. W. Munson, of the East Indies; and Walter Bond, of Spain, was much appreciated at San Jose. Their reports came as a great inspiration to our people. As we listened to the providences of God as related by our earnest missionaries, we were reminded of the cloud which overshadowed Israel as they journeyed from Egypt to Canaan. Truly the cloud is guiding Israel today, and soon it will lead us into the heavenly Canaan.

Day after day as these meetings progressed, the deep movings of the Spirit of God were more and more manifest. Deliverance came to those who were in bondage, and great victories were experienced by all. We certainly enjoy the showers of blessings that are now falling on the people of God, in both the early and the latter rain; and we expect to see more and more of the outpouring of this Spirit. Soon the light of God's glory is to be seen on his people as never before.

Quite a number were baptized at the close of each of these meetings, but I am not prepared to give the exact number at this writing. Very few changes were made in the executive committees of the conferences. The officers remain the same.

Let us continue to pray that the Lord will unseal the fountain of life and pour upon his people at this time the refreshing showers of the latter rain.

E. E. ANDROSS.