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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1880

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CAMP-MEETING — THE TIME.

By M. C. Israel, John Morrison

WE are very anxious to have Eld. Haskell attend this meeting, and we know that all our brethren and sisters unite with us in this feeling. And, if he does not attend it, there will not, probably, be any representative of the General Conference present, nor any one to suitably present the interest of the missionary work and other enterprises which the camp-meeting affords such an excellent opportunity to advance.

But Eld. Haskell, as one of the Executive Committee of the General Conference, and President of the New England Conference, has many other duties beside those which he is endeavoring to discharge on the Pacific Coast. He feels that the cause in New England demands his presence there as soon as circumstances will permit him to go. If our meeting is held in August, beginning as early as the eleventh, he will be able to attend it.

Now we want information, as soon as we can get it, from every church in California, as to their feelings and desires on the subject; we shall appoint it at such time as the majority of our people request. If they think August 11 too early, let them say so. But we hope all will see the urgent necessity of having Bro. Haskell at the meeting, and having it earlier than usual for that reason. We shall wait to hear before announcing the time.

M. C. ISRAEL, JOHN MORRISON, Conference Committee.