Camp-meetings in New York.
By John Nevins Andrews
TO THE BRETHREN IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: Shall we have a camp-meeting this season in our State? You have seen by the last REVIEW that such a meeting may be held in the State of New York, immediately after the one in New Hampshire, if the brethren are interested to have it. This meeting is greatly needed, and should certainly be secured by us. We can also hold our State Conference at the same time. If we have such a meeting several things are needed: 1. We must purchase one large tent, of the size used for tent meetings. 2. We ought also to secure from some other State a second tent of the same size, to be used during the meeting. 3. We need an efficient camp-meeting committee. This committee would need to take responsibility in advancing means to purchase the large tent. But the brethren would at the camp-meeting raise the money and refund it to the committee. This committee must also attend to the selection and preparation of the ground, and to the general wants of the meeting. The meeting should be held at some central point, and in the vicinity of a railroad station, so that those who come on the cars need not be compelled to hire conveyance to the ground. Arrangements should be made for supplying provisions on the ground for such as wish to purchase them. Let us by all means have the camp-meeting. J. N. ANDREWS. P. S. If any wish to purchase tents ready made they can be obtained of Mr. James Field, of Rochester, at the following prices: Tents 24 ft. by 30 ft., $145. Tents 19 by 24, $92. Tents 12 by 17, $54. Tents 9 by 12, $35. J. N. A.