The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-07
INTEREST KEEN At THE
CAMPMEET|NC
The Meetings Are Well Attended and
Good Work Being Done.

1t may not be generally known that
there is one religious denomination In
the United States that does not ad-
nit to the membership any individual
who uses intoxicating liquor and, go
ing still further in the temperance
work, excludes all who use tobacco in
any form. This denomination has
strong constituency of over one hun
dred thousand and has always been
active in the prohibition cause. Some
states in the West have openly de-
clared, and the votes have shown, that
had 1t not been for the good work OF
the Seyenth-day Adventists in their
midst the prohlbitory law would not
have been annulled.
In the present issue In this state
no people have been more alive. They
have imported workers from Tennes-
see, Australia and other far away
places and with voice and pen have
entered into the campaign. AT the
annual state campmeeting In Nor
ridgewock. September lilo, the vari-
GUS churches were we'll represented.
Sunday, September 8, was the great
temperance rally day and to their
own force of workers was added the
help of Mrs. Deborah Knox Living
ston, the eloquent and talented speak
er from Rhode Island. who has trav-
eled and lectured all over Maine in
the interest of prohibition.
The mammoth pavilion pitched In
the field in the rear of the Seventh
day Adventist church in the village
was packed to overlooking. Among
other speakers was Pastor G. B.
Starr, from the Melrose Sanitarium, {
medical missionary evangelist from
Australia This gentleman some years
ago was connected with a similar
campaign on that distant continent
He presented the temperance ques-
sense standpoint He graphically de-
scribed the divine leader of I'll Chris
tian graces, showing that temperance
has high place among the upward
rounds. G. Pet 1:5) while the down
ward ladder of feshy lusts terminates
In the round of "drunkardness" gal
5:19, 21. He declared that 1t would
be a sad spectacle for Maine to de-
scend from its high place on the top
most round to the lowest depths.
Pastor Fred C. Gilbert, a converted
Jew from Boston, added his voice to
the general sentiment of the meeting
and in an enthusiastic and vigorous
manner denounced the rum traffic. At
the close of the services the follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopt
ed:
Resolved: That we, the delegates OF
the Maine Seventh-day Adventists
Conference assembled at Norridge-
wock, Me-, September 3, 1911, heart
lily support the continuance of prohi-
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fuence, our voice and our vote no.
The Seventh-day Adventists have an
organized body of young people in the
State known as the Young People
Missionary Volunteers, and have unit
ed their forces in the distribution OF
special temperance number of the
Youths Instructor" Over fifty thou
sand of these papers have been placed
in the homes of Maine, representing
monetary value of five thousand
dollars.
The w. G. T. U. and other tenn
perance organizations have united
with the Missionary Volunteers in
the distribution of these periodicals
and the demand for them has been
even greater than the supply. The
most of the papers have been marked
with the words Vote No." 1t is house
to house work that counts in any
great campaign, and the majority of
the homes in this fair State have thus
been visited.