The General Conference.
By Committee
DURING the last conference year the expenses of the General Conference have been very great in consequence of sustaining a large number of laborers in new fields, and paying the expenses of Elders Waggoner, Andrews, White, and Sister White, in attending our camp-meetings. The debt now upon the General Conference is about $2,550.00. This sum must be paid, and expenses must be curtailed in the future. This last can be done in the following manner: 1. Each camp-meeting can meet its own expenses. Each camp-meeting committee should see that the expenses of all the laborers they secure are paid by funds raised upon the ground. 2. Churches and Conferences should be organized as early as possible on missionary ground, and put in working order to sustain the cause on such ground, so as to relieve the General Conference of expense as fast and as far as possible. 3. Our friends now living in those localities which are regarded as missionary ground, should expect themselves to help sustain the cause around them, and thus encourage the continuance of labor among them. We hope our friends in the vicinity of Boston will either sustain Eld. Cornell, or put of their means into the General Conference fund that it may be able to pay its debts. The General Conference Committee can give no further encouragement for the support of home missionaries till the debt of the Conference is paid.