Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-10-14
Perfect and right and pure and good
A COPY, Lord, of thine.

Perfect and right and pure and good
A copy. Lord, OF thine" J"
Our great, need brethren, is purity.
Holiness is q condition, not an end
Of growth. John Wesley says "the
reason we are not more successful as
Is because we are not more
holy and more knowing" The great
need of the church Is n It better
system Of doctrine or policy, but q
new baptism Of spiritual power.
Realizing this. l have pushed reviv-
ais everywhere.
REVEALS.
During the year we have held re-
vival meetings at Berlin, Hurdsheld,
Casselton, Cogswell, Dawson, Edge
ley, Glendale, Elliott, Enderlin,
Fairmount, Cleveland, Goodrich,
Denhor. McClusky, Hettinger,
Leonard, Lidgerwood, Linton, Lis
bon, Minor, Napoleon, Cakes, Shell
don, Tyson, Allen, Tower City, Tur-
tie Lake, Verona, Wahpeton, WASH
burn, Wheatland, Absaraka, Gill and
Wyndmere. l attended nearly all Of
these meetings for few days each
in order to keep in touch with the
evangelistic life OF the district, and
check any tendency to extravaganza
SO prevalent In great religious move
ments These meetings have been
characterized by sane, sweet spirit
and no harmful reactions have come
under my notice. AS nearly as can
Judge by reports given me by pastors
and evangelists, about twelve hum
dred people have professed conver-
sion, sanctification or reclamation in
the meetings held this year. Many
pastors held their own meetings,
while others we're assisted by Evan
gelists Glascock, Carradine. Taylor,
Bennett, Johnson. Craig, Ruth and
Bud Robinson. Besides the regular
revival meetings we held tent meet
ings during the summer at Grand
Rapi Is, Dawson, Elliott, Eairmount.
Lidgerwood, Linton, Cleveland, Tur-
tie Lake, Verona and Washburn, and
the great central camp meeting TOR
the district at jamestown. These
No. etings were we'll attended and re.
suited In great good to these COM
munities and in nearly every case
they have. asked for the same thing
again next summer. The camp
meeting at jamestown has grown in
power till it is one of the great
camps of Methodism. We had Bud
Robinson and Brother Craig this
year as evangelists, and they probed
the sin disc lse to the bottom, and
brought many to realize their need
Of Jesus as Savior and Sanctiier. 1t
was reported that two hundred or
more we're saved, sanctified or re-
claimed in the meeting. Sixty peo.
pie were served at tile last service
which was scene never to be for
z ltten by those who were there.
Th camp meeting has been the raj
lying ground for cid time religion on
this district and has been one of our
strongest factors In spreading
"Scriptural Holiness 1t is man
aged by a Scamp meeting board"
composed Of Metllodists and under
charter from the state. No fade or
side tracks have been allowed and
some Of our best and wealthiest peo-
pie look forward to this'annual feast
OF tabernacles with great delight.
But you ask, how have all these re-
vivals affected your membership?
MEMBERSHIP.
answer: In many places we
would have no membership and our
churches would be closed II we had
nog had revivals. The outgo here
Is tremendous. We preach to a NOV
ing procession in North Dakota.
have been here twenty-seyen years,
and all Of that: time but six years
has been spent within the bounds Of
Fargo District and yet in some Of
the towns where / have bt en- pastor
] scarcely know the people, SO con-
stantly do they change. This will
stop etime, and our population
will become stable, but just now we
must face the situation and stem the
tide. 55 Il, s,..
This year the brethren at the
Fourth Quarterly Conferences have
reported to me that they have taken
the following number Of members in.3
to the church this year, viz: Ver-l
ona II, LaMoure 70, EdgeIey IS,
Wyndmere u. Minor 30, Oakes 20,
Ludden 4, Ellendale "a, Center 10,
Steele 3, Dickinson 81, Turtle Lake
II, Hurdsdeld g, Dawson II, Good
rich 10, Sheldon 3, Enderiin ~, Het.