Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-04
Seventh Day Adventists 10
Hold Annual Camp Meeting
IN Bismarck
Nearly Thirty Cities and
Towns 10 Be Represented
in The Gathering
Two Dozen or More Ministers
Are 10 Preach The Word
Of Their Faith

North Dakota Conference of Seventh
Day Adyentists, for the holding o
their annual camp meeting in Bis
marck, June 23rd to Both. A cit!
of tents will be pitched on a vacant
lot near the Capitol building. MORE
tran one hundred living tents will b,
pitched and four large pavilions IL
which will be held services for the
English. Germans, Swedes, and Dan
ish.NOrwcgians. This will be tho
first time that the Adventists have
ever held their camp meeting here.
1t is very probable that ministers
and other workers throughout the
Conference under the leadership OF
President G. j. Buhalts, of Harvey
will come here at least a week be
fore the meetings open in order t(
get the encampment ready for those
who are coming from various parts OF
the state.
Among the cities that will be rep
resented are: Amor, Liberty, Alsen,
Squires, Kenmare, Dogden, Stanley
Rock Lake, Cleveland, Gackle, Wheel
ock, Manred, Cathay, Heaton, Valley
City, Beach, Alta, Streeter, McClusky,
Kuhn, Goodrich, Harvey, Lincoln,
Kief, Fargo, Sykeston, Max and Bald.
win.
Among the ministers in addition to
President Buhalts that will be here
are: Carl Leer, Lincoln; A.. Y, Rhoads,
Beach; N. NJ. %Jorgenson, Grand Forks;
J. J. Reiswig, Jamestown; J. H. Sci
bel, Bowdon; Martin Olson, Valley
City; w. A. Away, Harvey; j. B. City,
mer, Harvey; Olaf Ronning, Fargo;
NJ. Ruskjer, Fargo; A. F. Schmidt,
Harvey; S. G. Burley, Harvey; J. A.
Litwinenco, Herreid; F. l.. Franch,
Fargo; D. y. Kurtz, Cathay; Richard
Graham, Rock Lake; E. l.. Spencer,
Fargo; and Jacob Peters, Harvey.
President Euhalts will come here
direct from Washington, D. c., where
the Q%uadrennial session of the Cen
eral Conference of Seventh-Day Ad'
ventists is now being held. q While
in Washington, he has planned to
have some OF the leading workers in
the denomination attend the camp.
meeting, and take part.
Among those who will be here from
outside the Conference are: l.. II.
Christian, of Hutchinson, Mimi. who
is the leader of the Danish Norwegian
work; S. M0rtensOn of Chicago, the
leader of the Swedish work; l.. F..
llaffner, Of Clinton, Mo-, the leader Of
the German work; Charles Thompson
of Minneapolis, Mimi, president of
the Northern Union Conference; F. c..
Gilbert, of South Lancaster, Mass,
the head Of the Jewish work in this
country; Valentine Leer, of California;
missioners from Germany and Russia.
In connection with the camp meet
ing here, business sessions will he
held very day, except Saturday. which
is observed by the Seventh-Da Ad-
ventists as the Sabbath. In cOnnec.
ton with these business meetings,
plans and recommendations will be
made for the ~furtherance of the de-
nomination in this state during the
coming year. Officers will be elect
ed, credentials and licenses will be
issued to the various workers and
appointments made for the various
ministers and other laborers in the
Conference.
Seventh-l)ay Adventists believe
that they have a definite message to
give to the world today. In the year
1876 the Seventh-Day Adventists, as a
denomination, really had their start.
At that time one man, Captain Joseph
Bates, of Fair Haven, Mass, proclaim
ed in part, the doctrines and teach
ings of this people. Starting in OBJ
security and poverty. it has grown in
power and numbers, and extended in
influence, until today the sun V
sets but upon their organized work.
Thus within a period of less than sew
enty years they have so covered the
face Of the earth that there is scarcely
a country where their workers nav
not be found. During this time they
have raised al d%expended in the pros
e%cution of this work something over
$25, 600, 900.
The Adventists have 112 local
conferences, which form % union con-
%ferences, and these, with the A union
EMISSION fields, form the general con
ference. The entire organization is
wholly and purely elective. The
2,76? local churches, with a mem
bership Of $4,000 untrammelsd in any
way, select delegates to the local CON
f%erences; the local conferences, in
public assembly, elect delegates to
the union conferences, which in turn
elect their delegates to thegeneral
conference. These delegates to the
general conference, in open session,
elect the mission board and its Off
GERS, with the secretaries Of the vari-
GUS departments. Thus the entire
control and management of the or.
ganization is in the hands of the peo
[ple Of the denomination.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
entered 50 foreign fields, and in ten
years have sent $50 adults abroad.
They now have in mont Christian and
non-Protestant countries $50 foreign
missionaries, and ga native workers,