MICHIGAN CONFERENCE, ATTENTION!
By J. D. GOWELL
We are nearing the time for our State Conference and camp-meeting, which is to be held on the fair grounds in Lansing, Mich., August 15-25. This meeting will be preceded by a workers' meeting, beginning August 7. We trust that many of our brethren will plan to be present at the workers' meeting, to help prepare the camp for the thousands who will attend. When you elect your delegates, be sure to make choice of those who are deeply interested in the different branches of the great work. We expect this next Conference will be the most important ever held in this State, and the Conference should consider well the importance of sending a full delegation. We expect to be able to procure rates on all the railroads. The people of Lansing have manifested an interest in our coming to that city, and I am sure that we shall have God's presence, and that many will receive an especial blessing. We expect able help from the General Conference, and are in hopes that Sister E. G. White will be able to attend, and once more talk to the many people in Michigan who have been cheered by her comforting words in the past. We are glad to report to the Conference that your will as expressed at the last Conference in regard to financial aid to different parts has been carried out by your Executive Committee. We have sent seven hundred dollars to aid in the school work in the South, and have received many good letters of thanks from Elder J. E. White, who has the burden of that work at heart. We have also supported Elder Munson and family on the Island of Sumatra, East Indies, and have received letters of encouragement from that field. We have also sent Brother Hagle to labor in the Tennessee River Conference, under pay of the Michigan Conference for one year. We wish we could have done much more in the foreign work, but we have carefully guarded the finances, and have not allowed our Conference to go in debt. We feel that it should be the determination of our Conference, as well as of individuals, to “owe no man anything.” We hope there will be a grand rally at our Conference, where all can be supplied with good books and tracts to aid in extending a knowledge of the truth for these last days. J. D. GOWELL.