p. 22 | Vermont Conference by F. M. DANA.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1905

Vermont Conference

By F. M. DANA.

DEAR BRETHREN: I am reporting some items of our work, hoping it may be helpful to you in your plans; and I also wish to solicit your hearty co-operation, as in the past, in the plans for the advancement of the work in our home field.

After receiving a letter from Elder Cottrell, our Vermont Conference Committee met to consider what would be best for our work for the summer in view of the peculiar position we are in at the present. And according

to suggestion from Elder Cottrell, the committee chose a chairman (in the absence of a conference president) to act till camp-meeting, at which time you will have an opportunity to elect a conference president.

At this meeting of the committee the writer was chosen as chairman, and Elder T. H. Purdon as secretary pro tem. The general details of our camp-meeting were considered, and as far as possible mapped out, to be developed in connection with the providences of God.

You will remember that our work last year left us at Hardwick. There is some interest there yet, though not sufficient to warrant holding the camp-meeting there this year, as we view our work and the need of aggressive work in other and unworked fields of our conference. Hence the committee favored the plan to give Hardwick further work at the first opportunity consistent with our ability to supply a house-to-house worker, or, if need be, hold public meetings to handle the interest.

This will leave us opportunity to enter a new field in harmony with the instruction of the Testimonies, and in harmony with the message which is committed to us to give to all the world. Accordingly, we have selected Windsor, a place of about twenty-two hundred population, with neighboring districts favorably located to hear the message at this place. Windsor is on the C. V. R. R., fourteen miles below White River Junction, with good railway connection from almost any part of the State. And considering the location of our brethren in the State, we thought it would be quite central for them, the distance equalized, as well as being a place that we have had before us for several years to be worked.

The date of the meeting is not fully fixed, though it is likely to be August 24 to September 3, or a week earlier, August 17-27. Elder Cottrell reports that he is trying to secure good help from the General Conference as well as from our union conference district.

Now, in view of the preceding, shall we have the united co-operation of our conference constituency, their aims to aid in prosecuting our work, their prayers for the prosperity of the message? and shall we not be favored with a large attendance, a good delegation to study and aid in the development of our message to all the world?

Liberal donations are needed in your home work. The Tent and Camp-meeting Fund should meet many of the items that have been supplied in the past from the tithe. Is it wise to allow it this way?

Let each church send delegates and workers. We will report time of the meeting and other items as we are able to do so.

F. M. DANA.