Our Yearly Meetings by Uriah Smith

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1866

Our Yearly Meetings.

By Uriah Smith

SPECIAL NOTICE.

The meetings appointed in this week's Review, to be held at Battle Creek, May 16-21, are not designed for large gatherings. The arrangement for Monthly or Quarterly Meetings that exists in most of the States, which meetings are designed especially for the religious benefit of the brethren and churches, renders it unnecessary that a large company should assemble at our yearly meetings to be benefited by the religious exercises of the occasion. More benefit can be derived by the brethren and sisters, and less burden be brought upon any one church, by having a number of small meetings in various localities, than by a large gathering at any one place.

Second, the circumstances of the Battle Creek church the present season, are not favorable to the entertaining of a large gathering. It is therefore expected that the different meetings will be composed principally of delegates. Provision will be made for all who come in this capacity. It is also specially requested that those who design to come send word to the Office beforehand, that we may know how many to make provision for.

In behalf of the Gen. Conf. and Mich. Conf. Committees, and the Trustees of the S. D. A. Publishing Association. U. S.