Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-28
CAMPAIGNING OFFICERS
ELECTED FOR I9II.I9I2
GATHERING At JAMESTOWN HAS
BECOME A PERMANENT
INSTITUTION.
interest In Meetings Has Increased
Wonderfully Each Year and Splen-
did Results Secured.

! ola HeSultS secured.
Rev. S. A. Danford, district super
intendent of the Methodist church, re-
Gently returned from the Methodist
campmeeting held at jamestown and
is very optimistic over the results Sc
cured.
The Methodist camp meeting has be-
come an institution of no small pro-
portions in North Dakota. This year
the ATTENDANCE was larger than ever
before and the enthusiasm reached
high tide when proposals for advance
was made along the line of permanent
grounds, etc.
The Camp Meeting Association is
incorporated under the laws of NORTH
Dakota and has for it's trustees such
prominent layment as w. r. Movius
of Lidgerwood. John Williams of Mil
nor, George Finch of Verona, Willis
Hill of Page, besides several promin-
ent preachers.
DR.. S. A. Danford is president of the
association. DR.. Morrison is treasurer
and Rev. S. H. Farrand is secretary.
Rev. O. L. Anthony is the superintend.
ent of the grounds, Rev. Ira Hammer
is superintendent of the commissary
department., and Rev. E. J. Reid is
in charge of the book business.
DIR. J. G. Morrison is the editor of
the North Dakota Methodist and C.
F.. Whitney is business manager. Elk.
perts in camp meeting work say that
the North Dakota camp is the best
nruoni1nI In kk,1
United States.
DR.. Danford organized the associa.
ton six years ago and has been the
president ever since, with the ex-
ception of few months the second
year.
The evangelists this year were DR..
Fowler Of Boston, DR.. B. Carradine
of st. Louis and Miss Edna Banning
of Cleveland, Ohio.
The Hoffmans of Turtle Lake, and
Miss Olson of Glendale. led the sing.
ing.
About two hundred converts testi.
fled during the meetings and many
hundred got on higher ground spiri
ually.
The gracious results, however. OF
a great campmeeting, can not be tabu-
lated.
DR.. Danford took charge of the fin.
ancial end of the business as usual
and conducted the "Hallelujah March"
which put twenty-five hundred dollars
IN the table in few minutes.
The trustees are planning on buying
permanent grounds at jamestown or
soEle other convenient place in the
state. w. r. Movius of Lidgerwood
is chairman of the trustees.
Over five hundred people camped
on tie grounds this year in nearly a
hundred tents, while the attendance
some days reached a thousand |,
y 'K,i :'e {, little white civ.
No smoking. drinking or swearing
and all C";ting in family prayer at
o'clock each morning in the tabern-
acle was certainly taste of heaven
md real Christian socialism. they all
ate at common dinner table, too af-
;er song and prayer.
This camp meeting is the real heart
)hr0b of revival in North Dakota and
his years results will reach farther
han ever for the attendance covered
PARTS of three states. All of the south.
srn half of North Dakota, there being
rom one to a dozen from nearly every
Methodist community. The North Da-
kota Methodist, the organ of the camp
Meeting association, and edited by Dr.
Morrison. issues two thousand copies
zach month and is a big factor in this
preading of scriptural holiness.
Rev. Hub of Sioux City, Rev. Ruth
If Indianapolis and Rev. Weigle of
San Francisco have been secured as
speakers for next year, and DR.. Cara
line of st. Louis and DR.. H. C. Nor
isOn of Louisville, Kentucky, for 1913.
Your reporter heard many say this
vas the greatest camp thus far, but
lext year will double this, and from
he number of tents rented before
eaving the grounds one would easily
elieve it.
OPEN EVERY NIGHT
Until July Ala for the accommOda-
ion of those who want "Clever
I1Ot heS"