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These were meetings of solemn power and of the deepest interest.
Several connected with our Office of publication were convicted, and
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converted to the truth, and bore clear, intelligent testimonies. Infidels
were convicted, and took their stand under the banner of Prince Im-
manuel. This meeting was a decided victory. One hundred and twelve
were baptized before its close.
Kansas Camp Meetings
Accompanied by my daughter-in-law, Emma White, I left Battle
Creek, October 23, for the Kansas camp meeting. At Topeka we left
the cars and rode by private conveyance twelve miles to Richland, the
place of meeting. We found the settlement of tents in a grove. It was
late in the season, and faithful preparation had been made for cold
weather. Every tent had a stove.
Sabbath morning it commenced snowing; but not one meeting was
suspended. About an inch of snow fell, and the air was piercing cold.
Women with little children clustered about the stoves. It was touching
to see one hundred and fifty people assembled for a convocation meet-
ing under these circumstances. Some had come two hundred miles
by private conveyance. All seemed hungry for the bread of life, and
thirsty for the water of salvation.
Elder Haskell spoke Friday afternoon and evening. Sabbath morn-
ing I spoke encouraging words to those who had made so great an
effort to attend the meeting. I told them that the more inclement the
weather, the greater the necessity of our obtaining the sunshine of
God’s presence. This life at best is but the Christian’s winter; and the
bleak winds of winter—disappointments, losses, pain, and anguish—
are our lot here; but our hopes are reaching forward to the Christian’s
summer, when we shall change climate, leave all the wintry blasts and
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fierce tempests behind, and be taken to those mansions Jesus has gone
to prepare for those that love Him.
Tuesday morning the meeting closed, and we went to Sherman,
Kansas, where another camp meeting had been appointed. This was
an interesting and profitable meeting, although there were only about
one hundred brethren and sisters present. It was designed for a general
gathering of the scattered ones. Some were present from southern
Kansas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, and Tennessee. At