While the opening exercises of the Inter-State Assembly at Ottawa,
Kansas, were in progress a similar service was being held for the first
time in a large pavilion on the grounds of the Maplewood Park Assembly
near Waseca, Minn. The location of this new Assembly is delightful. It
is on the high lands of Central Minnesota, about sixty miles south of
the great cities of the Northwest, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and central
to a large and wealthy agricultural region, in which within easy reach
of the grounds are a number of thriving villages. The grounds consist of
a peninsula putting out into Waseca lake and covered by a heavy growth
of maple, beech and elm forest trees. The nucleus of a C. L. S. C.
organization existed in a local circle in the village of Waseca. During
the ten days of the Assembly several meetings were held, the plans of
the Home College explained, converts made, and on the evening of July
1st the first camp-fire was kindled in the presence of a large audience.
Addresses were delivered by Reverends Levi Gilbert, H. C. Jinnings, John
Stafford, Dr. Emory Miller and others. The meetings were pronounced
successful, and the prediction of still larger successes volunteered.