Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-26
Monday at the Camp Meeting
(By H. w. Reed, correspondent.)

kBy n. w. Reed, Correspondent
The 5:45 a. M. devotional meeting
was conducted by Pastor B. L. Post
OF Milwaukee. Opening prayer by Pas
tor w S. ShreVe Of BoscobeI. The
time was fully occupied in offering
testimonies Of praise by both the laity
and clergy. The 9 o'clock meeting
was given to a symposium Cn The Re
lation Of the Canvassing Work to the
DenCminatiOnaI Work as a Whole.
Pastor Thurston talked of the can
yassing work as related to the minis
try. He cited the example Of the A
postIe Paul as a house to house
teacher as well as a preacher. Pas
tor Moon spoke of The Publishing
work as an evangeliIng agency,
speaking very impressively Of the
value Of good literature. Pastor I.
H. Evans who has spent the past
five years in China and ether coun
tries of the far east told of the good
done there by the printed page. Pas
tor ]. w. Westphal related the i'm
portant part that the publishing work
had acted in the development OF the
work in South America. Our denom-
national papers printed in the for
eign countries are receiving a large
patronage, as the following will show
In China the circulation Of the paper
has reached $4,000 each month, while
i'm Japan and Korea the paper has a
circulation of 5000 monthly.
Miss Mimi Scharffenberg told in
terestingly of the publishing work in
Korea. The symposium was closed
by a few remarks from J. B. Blosser,
field agent for the Lake Union Con-
ference, who showed by Scripture
quotations that our publishing of re-
ligious literature is in harmony with
the Bible plan.
The third meeting of the forty-thiri
session of the Wisconsin Conference
convened at 10: 30 a. m. Pastor W.
H. Thurston in the chair
The report of the canvassing work
for the state was GWEN by the field
agent, H. w. Johnson of Stevens
Point. This report first briefly re-
viewed the publishing work of the
entire denomination which showed tha
from it's beginning gs of a four page
paper, siXty-five years ago, We have
now thirty-seven publishing houses
devoting their whole time to denomin
tional work. These institutions have
issued $50 bound books. 800 pam
phIets, !, 100 different tracts and 125
periodicals. The cost of one copy of
each of these would amount to $3.50
At the present time this literature
is printed in seEenty-fiYe languages
and plans are being laid whereby
soon all people may read the last mes
sage i'm their own tongue.
In 1912 the publishing houses re-
ported $1,S36, 10000 worth of liter
ature sold.
The part Wisconsin has been having
in this work may be briefly shown
by the following summary: Value of
orders in 1906, $42OO65; in 1907,
$347710; 1908, $629965; 1909, $5599.-
65; 1910, $527L5O; 1911, $5S78.3O;
1912, $11 ,630.1O The canvassing
work affords a splendid opportunity
for many of our young men and wo-
men to earn scholarships in our schoo
not only the English academies and
colleges in every conference, but al
so in the German Seminary at Clinton
Mo, the Danish-Norwegian Semtn
airy at Hutchinson, Mimi, the Swedish
Seminary at Broadview, Chicago and
the oFreign Missionary Seminary at
Wa 5hington, D. c., and a large nun
ber avail themselves of this privilege
The total value of sales reported by