Address by E. B. Lane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 18, 1871

Address

By E. B. Lane

TO THE CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE OF THE STATE OF INDIANA—CHARLES SEWARD, ALTO, HOWARD, CO.; WM. CARPENTER, NORTH LIBERTY; WM. COVERT, SHARPSVILLE, TIPTON CO.

We are anxious to have a camp-meeting here in the State of Indiana. I am satisfied that the camp-meeting here last season was of great advantage to the cause. The fires then kindled are still burning warm in the hearts of those who attended. Their testimonies still refer to the good camp-meeting of last fall.

We can have the fair-ground and grove at Kokomo. This is truly a pleasant place for such a meeting. There are two shingled buildings, some twenty feet wide by seventy long, beside two or three smaller buildings which can be used to good advantage. There are also three large bricked wells, affording abundance of water, besides a creek near by, affording water for baptism and other purposes. There are also stalls for teams a suitable distance from the grove. These grounds are covered with good sod, and are high and dry; and, therefore, all the expense of the meeting will be to seat the ground, as I learn that we can have the use of it for nothing.

As the Battle Creek tents are now in Indiana, if we could have a camp-meeting here before the one in Michigan, they could be used at both places. If we cannot have one here first, we should know it, so as to send the Battle Creek tents there in time for the Michigan Camp-meeting.

The brethren are anxious that Bro. and sister White should attend, and we hope and pray they will, if possible; but if they cannot, we will be grateful for such other help as we can get. We feel very anxious about the matter, and hope for the good of the cause such a meeting will be held.

Praying that God may direct you in the pathway of duty we submit these lines to you.

In behalf of the brethren in Indiana,

E. B. LANE.