‘COLUMBIA UNION VISITOR
Chesapeake
R. M. Spencer, President N. C. Van Horn, Sec’ty-Treas
’  Trustings Ave. and Edges Lane, Catonsville, Mada.
Ohio
A. E. King, Sec'ty-Troas.
Box 517, Mt. Vernon, Ooio
N. S. Ashton, President
CAMP MEETING
The Chesapeake Conference will hold its annual
camp meeting from July 8-18 in the beautiful oak grove
at Catonsville, Maryland. This will be a very pleasant
place to .spend some of the hot days beneath the shade
of these beautiful oak trees.
We are looking for a large attendance this year and
for a real blessing. The price of tents, etc., will be as
follows: Tent, $5; Canvass floor, 50 cents; Cot and
Mattress, 75 cents; Partitions, 35 cents; Tables, 25 cents;
Chairs, 3 for 25 cents.
We trust you will place your orders for tents and
furnishings early.
R. M. Spencer.
DOVER, DELAWARE
The writer came to Dover in January, 1925, to act
as pastor of the Dover church. My first work was to
get each member of the church busy doing something
with our publications. It required about two months to
get the church in good working order. Through our
efforts the Lord blessed us with souls. Just-a few days
. before camp meeting, five were buried with their Lord
in baptism.
From a financial point of view, it has been the best
in the history of the Dover church. Our tithes increased
from $1,531.39 in 1924, to $1,925.85 in 1925. There
was an increase in offerings for missions. Offerings
for missions, 1924, $807.89; for 1925, $1,216.09. Dover
church was one of the three churches in the conference
that went over the sixty-cents-a-week quota for missions.
© We thank God for His blessings during the past
year, and sincerely hope that we may be a blessing dur-
ing 1926, that more souls may be won to Christ and His
kingdom. Pray for the work in Dover..
W. H. Loose.
THE FEW
The easy roads are crowded
And the level raods are jammed;
The pleasant little rivers
With the drifting folks are crammed.
But off yonder where it’s rocky,
Where you get a better view,
You will find the ranks are thinning
And the travelers are few.
Where the going’s smooth and pleasant
You will always find the strong,
For the many, mores the pity,
Seem to like to drift along.
But the steeps that call for courage,
And. the’ task that’s hard to do
In the end result in glory
For the never-wavering few:
—FEdgar 4. Guest.
CAMP MEETING
To the brethren and sisters throughout Ohio:
I am sure that all will be interested to know where
our camp meeting will be held this sumnmer. We have
looked over the territory quite carefully, and the best
location that we have been able to find is at Wapakoneta,
the county seat of Auglaize County. It is situated on
the Dixie Highway, fifteen miles south of Lima and
sixty-one miles north of Dayton. We have secured the
fair grounds there, which are beautiful and very con-
venient. There is a fine dining hall on the grounds.
which is a great asset in conducting our meeting.
It has been many years since a camp meeting has
‘been held in the western part of the state, and we be-
lieve that it will be a great blessing to our churches in
western Ohio. In fact, it will be a great blessing to all
who attend, and in these days of good traveling facilities,
our brethren and sisters from all over the conference
can easily attend.
The date of the camp meeting’ will be August 12-
22. Let all begin to plan now to attend this annual con-
vocation of the Lord's people. We will have our bien-
nial’ conference session at this meeting, at which time all
the business pertaining to the conference will be trans-
acted.
There is much written, both in the Bible and in the
“Testimonies” with reference to the importance of God’s
people assembling themselves together to seek Him in a
special way for a deeper Christian experience. And
surely the times in which we live make it doubly im-
portant that we ‘‘forsake not the assembling of our-
selves together.”
We are planning to make the night meetings of
special interest to the outside people, and will have a
strong program from the beginning to the close, of sub-
jects ‘bearing directly on the message due the world at
this time. The city of Lima is just fifteen miles north
on the Dixie Highway, and we plan to bill this city with
announcements of our meetings. We believe that many
of the people in I.ima will be interested to attend our
evening meetings.
We trust we shall have the largest attendance at
our comipg camp meeting of any that has ever. been held
"in the history of Ohio, and that the Lord will pour out
His blessing in a special way.
: N. S. Ashton, President.
TRACT RACKS AND SMALL BOOKS
I have been interested in the tract rack work for
several years and enjoy it very much. I have a rack
placed in my own town, and four racks in other towns
in the railway stations, where I can reach.all classes of
people. I try to visit them once a week with papers and
tracts, and I find the racks empty every time I return.
I find very few papers destroyed and have put out hun-
dreds of papers in this way.
The Lord tells us to sow the seed. and He
will send someone along to water it, and He will give
the increase to His faithful children. A Quaker preach-