The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-21

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Members of the Executive Com
mittee-G. w. Wells, S. E. Jackson,
Andrew Mead, A. v. olson. A. w.
Kuehl, Carl Swenson and Stemple
White.
Mortified, Mimi, June 17.-The
fifty-firSt annual campmeeting of the
Seventh Day Adventist conference of
Minnesota which has been in session
in the city park for ten days, closed
Saturday night, when Evangelist O.
o. Bernstein of New York city spoke
in the large pavilion on Our Para
disc Home" OF THE Long Lost Eden
Restored" q. ... .s.--
Beside the 1870 small tents erected
for the delegates assembled from
all parts of the state, and the large
TOXIC pavilion for the English serV-
ices, other paviliOnS were erected
for meetings in. the Norwegian anu
German languages, and for the young
people and children. Not only nave
all the state conference camp sup
plies been i'll use, and much other
paraphcrnalia obtained from the
city, bat many delegates have been
cared for by hosptable residents OF
the city. . .. n......- ."
The Book Exhibit .' H
One place of peculiar interest has
been the book exhibit which repre-
scented the Minnesota Tract society,
located at 336 Lake Street east, Min
neapolis. the headquarters OF the
State Conference OF Seventh Day Adj
ventistS. Hundreds of dollars OF BIZ
bles, UNCONVENTIONAL books, pamph-
lets, tracts and periodicals were
sold. ..... ..., ...n
Many strong Christian workers
have been present. Speakers from
abroad were o. A. Olson and O. O.
Bernstein of New York city, Charles
Thompson and l.. Fl. Christian OF
MINNEAPOLIS, L. Mortenson OF Chr
cagO. G.. l. Benson Of Lincoln, Neb. i;
n. H. Town of Washington, ID. C.;
and S. n. Curtis Of Kansas City.
Adventists Are Missionaries.
The Adventists are missionaries
and their work is all development
of the missionary idea. They mum.
Der about one hundred thousand
members, scattered all over the
world: have. $500 churches united
into, 100 conferences, which again
are grouped into twenty-one union
conferences, composing the head or
ganiZation, for general conference.
The missionary work of this PEG
pie is divided into departments. The
foreign mission department, for in
stance, looks after all the mission
fields, with working force OF more
than 500 missionaries, located IN
sixty different lands. ,
The Publishing department owns
twenty-seven printing plants, occupy
ing thirty-seven buildings. with a
total force of more than 500 work
ers. These plants turn out over one
million dollars worth of printed mat
ter yearly, in fifty-four different
languages.
The Educational Department.
The Educational department op
crates thirteen colleges, thirty-twt
academies and twenty or, more inter
mediate schools, besides several hun
dred primary schools, employing
more than 80 teachers, who have
charge of more than 5000 pupils.
The Medical Missionary depart
ment controls nearly ninety medica
institutions, employing over l,6O'
physicians, nurses and helpers.
In addition there are several spe
cial departments, as for instance
the Religious Liberty department
which furnishes literature on thi!
subject, and arranges for lectures
and other forms of meetings to pre-
sent the principles of liberty which
they advocate. In support Of these
various kinds of missionary worl
the Seventh Day Adventists con
tribute. yearly in tithes and volun
tary offerings something like $1,000
coo
What the Adventists Believe.
The Adventists believe that thu
church of today can fulfill her mis-
sion only by the preaching of thu
gospel of Jesus Christ; that it can
not be done by ignoring eXistin:
evils; nor by entering the arena o
politics to force by law an outward
semblance of righteousness, wh's
the heart is corrupt, but that per
sonal religion, rather than politica
power is the crying need of tn
hour
A number of aggressive evangelis
tic efforts will be put forth in tn
cities of Minnesota the coming sum
mer. and Evangelist o. o. Bernstein
of New York city, in association
with other strong Christian workers
will conduct big series of gospe
meetings in Minneapolis.