The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-08
|ADVENTIsTS MEET
At CHARLOTTESVILLE
conference Being Held I'm Connection
with Annual Camp Meeting
Event.
PRESIDENT MoFFErT IN CHAIR
Ho Declares Year Has Been Marked
BY Breaking Loose Of WINDS y.
strife on Scale Never Witnesses"
since Creations Dawn.

fsnac,ai to The Richmond virginian,)
rbarlotteavtlle. va, Aug. 1-Wln
deleeates In attendance from ten
mend. Portsmouth, Ford. Slanlss'
Newmarket. Republican I
kI,ynchburg, Staunton. Guiena NILE nsr go
| Newport News. the opening an.,or
| session of the ten days rav.nth
~ savenfists was held Friday morn,
~ president w. G. Monett o.
/ Richmond, was in the cnan
srna convention Is being hello In CON
| -.sav, ..,tfh the annual camp meetins
crsyfhe conference. and tentea CITY
/ haa been pitched on Main sueel, one
hlock west of the Union Depot, TOT
| thA accommodation OF the oeiesatef
ara the holding Of the various meet
sr~r The other delegates and visitors
sre living in rooms This convention Is
sirs1ilar 10 the conventions held by
seventh Day Adventists in every state
in the Union during the spring ana
summer months.
president Moffett gave a very en-
co,1raging report of the progress OF
| the denomination during the past year.
| He said the year had been marked
] bv the breaking loose of the winds OF
! strife on such stupendous scale az
/ men have never before witnessed since
| ths dawn of creation--a year marked
also by the onward sweep OF the
last message of mercy preparing the
way for earth's soon coming King.
In no other department has there
bean greater evidence that the LORD
IL setting His hand to finish the Cos
Del message than in the evangelistic
work. Last summer two tents were
pitched, one Of them for the Rus
slams. Aggressive efforts were con-
80 5nSM ana fnfff
tent companies were placed In the
fteld this summer. Within twelve
months 1872 new converts have been
added to our churches. TWO new
churches have been organized-one
for Russians at Yale. and the other
at Republican Grove. The Russians
have dedicated their enlarged churc
building free from debt. and at Re-
publican Grove the lot where the
tent stood has been donated as a site.
md funds are In sight for an edtfice. :
President Moffett said that Gospel
literature In the form OF books. maya
gfnes and tracts had been placed In
thousands OF homes during the year
to the amount of ss.iss.6a worth
The result of this phrase OF missionary
endeeyor in the salvation OF men and
women. he said. will never be known
until the starry crowns are placed on
Nhe head OF each coiporteur rs he ex-
cha nges the pilgrims stan and the
dusty road for mansion of bliss
on the gold paved streets of that
eternal city. where they shall hunger
Inc more, neither thirset any more. nor
shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat
The mission offerings amounted 70
ss.Ioala. In arousing the delegates
ia the Importance OF keeping up their
Offerings to missions. President MOT.
fett said With the unmixed wrath OF
God TO fall upon the world. and with
calls for help ringing In our ears
from lands where unwarned hundreds
OF miliions bow down In heather
blindness 10 idols OF wood and stone,
we must shake of our indifference and
SGT ourselves at this time TO raise our
fuil quote of funds
N said that nine church schools
were In operation last year, three OF
them being for the coiored. He also
Sid that seven young peoples so
|siefies prospered last year.
sThursday President Moffett gave a
utriking discourse on THE Inspira-
zion OF the RibIe." In which he de-
PENDED the sacred word from the at
tacks of skeptfcs, infideis and higher
crftics. More than half his audience
vvas made up Of residents OF Char
l0ftesviiie In his Introductory re-
ruarke Mr.. Moffett dweit considerably
ON the hfe and iabors OF the Apostle
Paul. he said thar this great man
want out into heather lands, and
wherever he went the heather temples
wers thrown down. Their business OF
making idols stopped as much a. some
lines OF business do In this country
bScause of the war in Europe. He
r1fesd mp churches everywhere until
heafhenism gave way. simply because
|of the Word OF God which he
preached. But when he preached the
word. he did not take a part OF 1t. and
throw a part away. He accepted II
All and preached II all as inspired
frebm God, as q message from heaven,
~ something more than human.
IT believe, dear friends. II there
were more preaching of the pure word
re God and less OF mems thoughts and
human traditions we would see a
Ereat change In the world for the bet
Eer. instead OF the worse. az II IL,