Camp-Meeting in Portland, Oregon
By H. W. Cottrell
THE greatest feast ever placed before the people of this conference is to be set before them at our forthcoming conference and camp-meeting, the date of which is June 19-29, 1913. The times demand that this be the greatest feast; local conditions in the city of Portland demand this feast to be spread. The National Reform Association is to hold a convention under the title of the World’s Christian Citizenship Conference, in Portland this summer, in just a few weeks from now. The purpose of their convention is to create a demand for stronger religious legislation, the enactment of which they believe will usher in the kingdom of God on the earth. Such legislation will consist very largely of Sunday laws. This local condition demands the greatest effort ever put forth by us as a people to enlighten the citizens of this place that they may not become drunken with the wine of this civic-righteousness sophistry. So inasmuch as it is demanded of us by the conditions about us, and heaven certainly demands it of us, we should do our part. Hence the great feast. Get ready, and come to the conference and camp-meeting. A special effort will be put forth to have strong preachers from abroad to add to our present force in the presentation of truth adapted to the occasion. If your faith is strong in God and in the soon triumph of this message, you should come; your presence is needed. If you have not become thoroughly convinced as to the importance of this great message that is going to the world, are not quite sure that it is from God, you should come, because if it is from God you should know it. If you are somewhat discouraged and downcast because of the mistakes in your own life and in the lives of others about you, you should by all means arrange to be present and have your spiritual strength renewed. If your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, or your children are in special need of the meeting, you should do all in your power to arrange to have them present. The only reason for the delay of the outpouring of the latter rain of the Holy Spirit is because of the wrong condition of the individual heart. The Spirit will come only as the hearts of men are right in God’s sight. Peter said to Simon, “Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.” The committee has decided to erect the camp again in Portland this year, especially on account of the National Reform Association meeting which begins the day ours closes, June 29. The meeting will be on the same ground as last year, it being impossible for us to get any other ground in the city. Remember the date, June 19-29. All those who were at camp-meeting last year will understand how to reach the ground, but for the benefit of those who were not here last year, details will be published later. Please send in your orders for tents at once. The prices will be as usual,—$3 for the 12 x 14-foot tents. Please state definitely the amount of furniture you want in your tent, and whether you want the tent floored or not. Give detailed particulars. Address your order to this office, in care of Tent Department. In behalf of the executive committee.