Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-14
OVER 1850 ADvENTisTs EXPECTED
TO ATTEND APPROACHING \.
CONFERENCE.
TO BECOME
TENTED CITY NEXT WEEK
Officers Plan Meeting to Be Best And
Largest in History Of Iowa-Foreion
Workers to Tell Of Conditions Abroad
TO Feature Evening Lectures, Open
to Public.

h More than 1900 Seventh Day Ad-
ventsts from all parts of Iowa will
come to Marshalltown for their annual
II convention and camp meeting which
will be held in Riyerview park, Aug
% to Sept. 3. Nearly 200 family tents
will be pitched in addition to about d
dozen large pavilions, which will pc
used for different meetings, cafeteria
sale and exhibition Of gospel Literature
and other purposes.
A mammoth canvas pavilion, with
| three huge center masts, and accom-
modating an audience Of about .2,ool
will be pitched in the center OF, the
1 encampment, and will be used for the
principal services. An immense three
mast tent will be used for the care
terra. A we'll stocked grocery store,
where only vegetables, grains ana
fruits will be sold, with flesh meats
noted by their absence, also will be IN
operation.
Another large circular tent will also
| be pitched in which will be held meet
ings for the young people, while stu
another large pavilion will be for the
use of the children. Among the cities
that will be represented by the dele
| CATION are Des Moines, Davenport
Humboldt, Grinnell. Nevada, Musca-
tine. Ottumwa. Waterloo, Waukon,
Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Sioux Rap
ids, Osceoa, Oskaloosa. Extra Du-
! hnnne Creston. Charles City, Atlantic,
Boone. Fort Dodge Keokuk and many
other places. In fact, there will pc
delegates in attendance at this meet
ing from all the one hundred Adventist
| churches in the state.
Plan Best in History.
Plans now on foot give promise OF
the largest gathering of its kind ever
! held in this state. Elder A. X. Ogden'
of Nevada president Of the Iowa con-
ference, and a large corps of ssktants
have been working earnestly for weeks
with a view Of making this the best
camp meeting ever held in the Hawk
eve. state both as far as attendance
is concerned and the spiritual uplift
the people will receive, and from the
number of requests for tents already
received the indications point to
record breaking crowd coming. Some
of the most noted evangelists and re-
vivalists in the denomin alton will also
be present and take part in the daily
program.
To Tell Of Foreign Work.
The world conference Of the de-
nomination will be represented by Ell
der A. G. Daniels. the president, who
has recently returned from an extend
ed trip in the Orient, having during the
last year held conferences and visited
many of the denominational mission
stations thruout China, India. Korea,
Manchuria and Jopan. His recent con-
tact with the great Gibraltar OF hea-
thenism will bring to the Iowa meet
ing a better understanding OF the needs
of that great field
Elder W. A. Spicer, secretary Of the
foreign mission board, will make
his first appearance in this part OF the
country after spending several months
in war-torn EurorH: He will tell Of
his experiences in Germany and other
countries on the continent. Other
well-known ministers coming include
Elder Charles Thompson, of Minneapo-
lis president Of the Northern Union
conference which includes In its ter
ritory the states of North Dakota,
South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota;
Prof. NJ. B. Van Kirk, secretary Of the
educational and young peoples depart
ments of the Northern Union confer
ence: S. NJ, Operg, field missionary
secretary of the Northern Union con-
ference; and S. A. Ruskjer, home mis-
sionary secretary of thes Northern
Union conference, all Of Minneapolis.
Feature Evening Lectures.
A particular feature in connection
with the daily program at the coming
camp meeting will be the evening lee
lures, when the prophecies, especially
| concerning present day events, will be
explained Evangelists who have Civ
en- years Of close study will be the
speakers. They will show from the
| bible the meaning of the social, polit-
| ical, financial, and religious unrest now
| existing in the, world. The public will
| be welcomed to attend these lectures.
Seventh Day Adventists believe the
present war, the frequent earthquakes,
| tidal waves, cyclones and floods, and
the unsettled state of society are pre-
| cursers Of the near coming Of Christ
and the end Of the world, and that
there ought to be far more earnest de-
votion and less frivolity and pleasure
! seeking On Ine part OF tne masses.
They maintain that goodness never can
be brought about by law, and that the
religious laws are pernicious, but they
believe there should be a voluntary
movement on the part of men and
\ women everywhere to read their bibles
more diligently than ever before, and
to yield implicit obedience to the pre-
cepts and counsel Of the scriptures.
They do not urge that the bible be
read in the public schools but they
do urge most strongly that it be read
in the homes.
The Adventists are diligent bible
students themselves, and declare that
in such time as this, when millions
Of men are being slain at the front
when already seven million men and
women in Poland are renorted to have
died OF starvation and exposure, and
when only more heart rending scenes
are yet to follow. it is time for a
general awakening to "the perils Of the
last days" and for much prayer and
devotion