Ellen G. White: The Progressive Years: 1862-1876 (vol. 2)

The Remaining Eastern Camp Meetings

On the train bound for the Vermont camp meeting, scheduled to open on August 19, White took his pencil and wrote wearily: 2BIO 479.2

The Battle Creek camp meeting is passed. Many circumstances were unfavorable; but the Lord helped, and results are good. The influence of this meeting will be lasting.... The pleasant reflections of what God has wrought the past two weeks, and the triumphant hope of reward in the future, make us very happy.—Ibid. 2BIO 479.3

After Vermont, they attended camp meetings in Maine and New York, and then they had to hurry to California. 2BIO 479.4

At the meeting in Maine, Ellen White again had the opportunity to visit her sisters. Of this she wrote: 2BIO 479.5

We went to Maine to visit my sister Harriet, who is dying with consumption. We went the route which was new to us which passed through Gorham, where my twin sister [Elizabeth] lives. We called on my sister Mary Foss and got her and her daughter Ellen and my niece Mary Clough to go to the camp meeting with us. They were very much interested in the meeting.—Letter 35, 1875. 2BIO 479.6

From there they traveled to Rome, New York, for meetings that would run from September 9 to 14. They had promised to be in California for the camp meeting there September 23 to 30, if the publishing house was ready and a house of worship built in San Francisco. Meeting the challenge, the California members successfully completed the publishing house in Oakland, and O. B. Jones, the builder, was busy at work on a church building in San Francisco on Laguna Street. This meant that the New York camp meeting was the last they could attend in the East. 2BIO 479.7