NEW TENTS by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 15, 1876

NEW TENTS.

By A. S. Hutchins

HAVING laid the subject of purchasing a new sixty-foot tent before two district T. & M. quarterly meetings, and also our State quarterly meeting at Berkshire, and found the united voice of the brethren to be in favor of having a new tent, we now feel free to present the subject to our brethren and sisters throughout our entire Conference.

I know the times are hard to raise money. But the work of the Lord must not stop. It has too many friends to stop here. And “a friend in need is a friend indeed.” Pledges already made for the tent, though not as large in some cases as we could reasonably have expected, give us courage.

We have the terms of Martin and Sons, tent manufacturers of Boston, for their best 12 oz. duck roof, with lighter wall, which all think we had better take. One of these tents, all ready to pitch, with freight added, will cost not far from three hundred and fifty dollars. Only about one-third of that sum is pledged yet. But the new tent must come in time for our soon-coming camp-meeting, and, if necessary, we shall call again on some who have pledged lightly, considering their ability, and also on some of the rich brethren who have not felt able to help in this enterprise.

We shall call up this subject in districts No. 2 and 3, and raise what we can. And we invite our brethren and friends in Dist. No. 5 to make their pledges at once to the director, Bro. D. Wilcox, Jamaica, Vt. We further invite the scattered brethren and sisters who have not yet had a chance to pledge, to send their pledges to the director in their district, or send to my address, Irasburgh, Vt.

Pledges should be paid at once, if convenient; if not, please pay at the camp-meeting. Yet if absolutely necessary, we will accept of pledges to be paid later. And when the time of our annual gathering shall come, if the Lord shall favor us with the tent, may we not beseechingly look unto the General Conference Committee to send us help to give a course of lectures?

Of small tents for family use I would say, If any of our brethren wish to purchase such for the next camp-meeting, they would do well to correspond with Bro. Lewis Bean, Bordoville, Vt., who is ready to manufacture such tents as you may wish at reasonable prices. Let preparations for the camp-meeting be made in season, and as extensive as needful to honor Him who giveth us all blessings. A. S. HUTCHINS.