The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-09-08
ADVENTISTS IN
SESSION HERE
State Encampment of the Sew
enth Day Adventist Now in
Session at City Park-Several
Notables Here For Ten Day
Stay.
Camp Reporter.

There is TO be big camp meet
ing in town. The city park now
has the appearance of d we'll or
gained camp ground The Sey-
enth-day Adventists have here
erected large number of neat
looking family tents preparatory
to the holding Of their annual
state conference. The orderly ar
rangement Of these tents among
the large trees OF the park make
the little city an attractive place.
Delegates from Seventh-day
Adventists Churches scattered
over this state are gathered here
to elect officers for the ensuing
year. to transact other business
of the conference, and above all.
as they See It, TO partake of the
spiritual feast which is the most
important part Of the gathering.
This encampment not only has
the ministry of Arkansas, but
some very interesting speakers
with special subjects have come
from without the state.
Elder J. ". Christian, the pres
itient OF the Southwestern Union
Conference. is here. This Union
is composed Of the Arkansas con
ference. Oklahoma conference
NfW Mexico conference and the
taree conferences OF Texas. The
Adyentists say that this presiding
officer is pleasing and force
speaker and that he stirs the
hearts of his hearers to repent
anee with the messages which he
brings from the Word.
Professor {. Sorenson is ex-
pected to arrive on the ground
in the early part of the meeting.
This man is from Washington, d.
{. He is the Bible Instructor OF
one of the six colleges of the de
nomination IN the United States.
lie has been attending camp
meeting in each conference of the
Southwestern Union, and now
comes with his special message to
the people of Arkansas before
taking up his work at the college
again.
There are other speakers from
keene. Texas, the town where
the Southwestern Junior College
is located. A. +. Harrison is d
live wire who pushes the sale OF
denominational books IN this un-
ION conference. w L. Adams
from the same place is at the
head of the young people 5 or
ganization in the union. and viii
have charge of the young peo-
pie 5 meetings to be conducted IN
the large tent which has been
erected in the park for that
parpose.
From the 1916 year book Of
this people we conclude that they
consider that they have a message
for all the world. The General
Conference is worldwide organ
,zalIon which has its North Amer
lean, South American, and Euro
pean Division Conferences, any
the Asiatic Division Mission. At
RIGA is worked by this people I'M
der the supervision OF the Euro
pean Division Conference and
Australasia and Polynesia are IN
cluded in the Asiatic Division
Mission, so there is no part OF
the world left out IN their MS
Sl3nary operations. They believe
that the second coming OF Christ
is to take place IN this generation
and that the gospel OF the king
dom must be preached IN all the
world before that event. II proof
for this is asked they will tell
Won to read Matt. q Ii. This
view accounts for their great
missionary activity.
The president of the Arkansas
Conference. Elder w +. Baxter,
of Little Rock, has been on the
grounds from the first day prep
arations began. and has been
directing in making the camp and
the meetings ideal. He says,
We have no secret meetings
and we want the people OF
Springdale and surrounding coun.
try to know that Our speakers
who have travelled hundreds OF
miles to get here have come to
preach to them as well as to us,
who are here in our homes.
The first meeting will be held
tonight, and the meetings are to