East Michigan Camp-Meeting
By J. D. Gowell
WE have succeeded in securing a beautiful oak grove with fine buildings, and five hundred chairs, near Flint, for our camp-meeting and conference to be held August 18-28. The camp-meeting will occupy the time from August 18 to 25, and the conference from 26 to 28. We have the finest grounds we have ever had for camp-meeting. The water is excellent, well one hundred and eighty feet deep. The camp will be nearly surrounded by water. There will be good accommodations to reach the grounds. The city has been contemplating buying these grounds for a city park. They contain seventeen acres, and are dry, and just rolling enough so that water will not stand upon them. They are many feet above the pond that nearly surrounds them. I trust we may have a large attendance, as our meeting will be one of the most important meetings ever held in this part of the State, and we shall endeavor to procure the best outside help. The meeting will be preceded by a workers' meeting, beginning August 13. We hope many of our young men will be interested in this meeting, and will come to help arrange the camp. For the past few years our ministers have been obliged to labor so hard in preparing the camp that when the meeting begins, they were tired out, and the meeting was not so successful as it should have been. The way our brethren come out to the workers' meeting will determine, to some extent, the advisability of holding camp-meetings in the future. We shall endeavor to have a full supply of all our publications and health foods at this meeting, also a dining stand and groceries to supply all the needs of the people. There will be chairs and bedsteads, tables, etc., to rent at reasonable terms, also tents. All desiring tents should send their orders at once to Elder A. R. Sandborn, Fair Grove, Mich., R. F. D. No. 1, and their tents will be ready for them when they come on the grounds. Twelve by sixteen foot tents will be rented for $2.50 during the meeting, and fourteen by twenty-two foot tents for $3. Let us have a grand rally at this annual feast.