The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-05-26
STATE ADVENTISTS
IN CAMPNEETINC
Three Services Held Daily in
Big Tent---Stereopticon
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Seventh-day Adventists from var
ious parts of Nevada are assembled
here in their annual camp meeting
which began last Monday night and
will continue until and including
next Sunday night The big tent
and camp are pitched at the corner
of Main and A streets. Meetings are
being held at 1916 a. m, 8 and
7:45 p. m. daily. All these services
are open to the public, Elder c. l..
Taggart superintendent of the Ne
vada field, having extended to all
cordial invitation to attend. Ex-
cellent music is being furnished, and
stereopticon views add to the inter
est of the evening services.
Elder e. E. Andross, of Los Ang-
eles. president of the Pacific Union
Conference of the Adventists, which
includes the states of Nevada, Cali
fornia, Arizona and Utah, will de-
liver several sermons. Elder e. W.
Farnsworth, of Oakland, Cal, also
is here, and spoke last Tuesday
night, delivering forceful sermon
during which his hearers gave earn
est attention. The large tent was fill
ed to capacity. Other arrivals Tues
day were +. f. Painter, of Noun
tain View, field missionary for the
Pacific Union Conference, and Prof.
A. W. Russell, of Iona Linda, Cal
Ernest Lloyd, missionary secretary
of the union arrived Monday We'd
nesday night Elder Andross will
preach on "The Fulfllment of
Prophecies Concerning the Second
Coming of Christ" Thursday night
Elder Farnsworth will speak on
"The Great European War, What
the Bible Says. About it, Elder
Farnsworth viii also speak Friday
night. A symposium on education
al work will be given Thursday
afternoon at 3 o'clock
"The True Church. was the sub
jeet of the sermon delivered by
Elder Andross Tuesday afternoon.
I'VE may go through all the forms
of Christianity" he declared, "and
be obedient outwardly to the re-
quirements of the church, having
our names upon the books, and yet
have opposite our names on the
heavenly record a long list of sins
which have not been righted.
"Alr the names of all the men,
bers of the family of God, his true
church. are faithfully recorded in a
book in Heaven. That is the true
church record 1t is called the
Book of Life
"The foundation stone of the true
church is Jesus Christ Paul says in
| Corinthians 3:11, Other founda-
tion can no man lay than that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ Jesus,
speaking to Peter. as recorded in
Matthew 1913, said, Upon this rock
will | build my church. and the
gates of hell (the grave) shall not
prevail against it, The gates of
the grave did prevail against Peter.
But Christ said to the beloved John
On Patmos, 1 am he that liveth, and
was dead; and, behold, am alive
for evermore, Amen; and have the
keys of hell and of DEATH Revela-
tion lis.
THE church of God is built upon
the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the chief cor
ner stone Christ himself. then,
not Peter, is the true foundation of
the true church of God in the
earth
An invitation to 1nhdels and
skeptics to consider well the prophe-
cies concerning Christ's earthly life
was given by Elder Z. w. Farms
worth in his sermon at the large
tent Tuesday night. ''Christ did not
appear to his disciples in the upper
room on the day of his resurrection
to convince them Sunday was the
Sabbath, for he made no mention OF
that The disciples did not gather
there to commemorate the resurree
tion, for they did not believe he had
risen. They were gathered behind
locked doors for fear of the Jews
But Jesus will endeayor to convince
them that it was he, himself, who
had risen from the dead, and thai
in so doing he had fulfilled Old Test
ament prophecy. 'Ye are witnesses.
he said to them. No witness can
testify to what he has not seen
They had abundant evidence oil
Jesus Messiahship, and their testi-
mony has been the hope of Chris.
tians in all ages from that day tC
this"