GENERAL CONFERENCE DISTRICT 3.
By A. J. Breed
The Illinois camp-meeting was held, according to appointment, in Electric Park, in Kankakee. The park is reached by the street cars, and is a pleasant place for a meeting of this kind, being well shaded, and offering quietness from the bustle and noise of the city. The meeting is said to have been the largest held in Illinois for several years. No pains was spared to make it pleasant for all who attended, especially the laborers from abroad, of whom were Elders Irwin, Haskell, and Johnson, Sister Haskell, Professor Salisbury, and the writer. The business part of the meeting passed off pleasantly. One special feature of the work considered was the industrial school at Sheridan. Land had been procured, and work already begun on the grounds where the school is to be. At the time of the meeting it was hoped that the school would be ready to open by the first of October. Plans were laid accordingly, and the brethren manifested a deep interest by raising money to establish the school, and start it, free from debt. The preaching was of such a nature as to awaken our people to a realization of the necessity of a more thorough consecration to the work of God, and raise the standard among us by more earnest work, both at home and abroad. The evening discourses were presentations of the fundamental principles of the Third Angel's Message, and were conducted, mostly, by Elder E. E. Franke, from New York, who had been laboring in Chicago. The different interests of the work were looked after carefully, the brethren responding to each enterprise with that interest which generally characterizes the work at our large gatherings. The Conference officers remain about the same as last year. Elder Kauble was re-elected to the office of president. The writer did not remain until the close of the meeting, being obliged to leave in order to reach the Michigan camp-meeting at its opening, so is not able to give all the particulars as to the amount of money raised, the number of subscriptions for “Christ's Object Lessons,” or the number baptized; but particulars were quite fully recorded in the Illinois Recorder, which gives, from time to time, information of much value to the workers and churches in the Conference. The brethren and sisters returned to their homes with a more earnest desire than ever before to follow in the footsteps of Him who died for our salvation. If the desires expressed are met, we shall see much accomplished the following year.