The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-28
THE SEVENTH DAY ADvENTIsTs
Their Camp-meeting at waxahachie


Special Correspondence Of the Herald.
WAxAHAcHiE, July 20, lss2.-The annual
amp-meeting OF this people for northern
Texas which has been in progress here
since Friday last, seems to be attracting a
large degree of interest on the part of our
citizens, as the attendance since the rains
ceased gives evidence.
The grounds are well adapted for such n
meeting and are fitted up IN an attractive
manner.
The services consisting ofpreacl.ing at IL
q. m, at $50 p. m. and s p. M, besides de
votional and business meetings at other
hours, are all conducted in an orderly and
pleasing manner. The music which is
mainly congregational singing led by the
organ and an efficient choir, forms also an
attractive feature.
The denomination is little known in
this section, as it has arisen since
the Advent movement OF 1Sil and
their work has been mainly carried on in
the northern and western states but is now
rapidly spreading to all parts OF the world.
We give below some particulars concerning
their belief, numbers, progress of their
work, etc., az furnished by themselves:
The name of the denomination Is signiti-
cant of two prominent points in their be-
lief, viz: the observance of the seventh day
of the week or Saturday as the Sabbath,
they claiming that it never has been
changed by divine authority, and their be-
lief in the second personal coming of Christ
in the near future. While they believe that
the prophecies and the signs of the times
all indicate that Christ is soon coming, they
do not and never have set the definite
time for that event, and have
no fellowship with such q course,
believing 1t to be contrary to the
teaching Of the Bible.
They have at present in the United States,
more than twenty conferences, and about
600 churches, numbering about 5000.
They also have missions established in
England. Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
Denmark, Norway Sweden and Egypt.
They began publishing about 1850. They
now have large publishing-house in Bat
tie Creek, Michigan, and another in Oak
land, California, from which they issue
eight or ten periodicals. in different lang
uages. Besides this tons of books and
tracts are sent out annually, amounting at
present TO nearly 3O00O0,0O0 pages. They
have two presses running in Europe which
publish exclusively in the European Ian
guages.
Their work is aggressive and their mau-
Their ministers are not settled over
churches, but are left. free TO carry their
message into new fields, holding meetings
in summer in tents, (of which they have
about 1907 and in winter in churches, halls,
etc. There are about 800 ministers thus
engaged in this country.
But perhaps the most efficient means of
carrying on their work is the agency OF
their tract and missionary organization,
which secures the cooperation of every
member of the denomination In distrib-
uting reading matter, and through which
millions of pages of tracts are scattered an
nually.
AS a body they are staunch temperance
people, gsing back OF the bottle and wine
cup and advocating plain, discriminating
diet as the surest physical safeguard
against intemperance. We learn that the
camp breaks next Monday.