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The Oregon Camp Meeting

By the time the Oregon camp meeting opened she had regained her strength. The first meeting was on Thursday, June 27, at 6:00 A.M. She was present and bore her testimony. The camp meeting site was three miles from the city of Salem. Loughborough described it as “a grove of about thirty fir trees of 150 feet in height, interspersed with those of smaller growth” (The Signs of the Times, July 4, 1878). There was a nice contrast among the green foliage, the white tents, and the yellow carpet of straw on the ground. By Friday, in addition to the two large tents for men and women, respectively, there were twenty-four family tents arranged in a semicircle around the large preaching tent—Ibid., July 18, 1878 3BIO 85.5