An Appeal for the Indiana Camp-Meeting.
By E. B. Lane
DEAR BRETHREN: After due prayer and meditation, it has been decided to hold a camp-meeting in your State, to commence Oct. 6, and continue five days. The worn condition of the servants of God who have been engaged in the camp-meeting enterprise this season, has made this meeting an uncertainty until the present time. This, with the late season of the year, is the cause of so short a notice. The Ohio camp-meeting is now past, and those who conducted it are willing, and have consented, to come among you and hold this meeting, and thence go on to Kansas, Providence permitting. Now, brethren, I am aware that you are ardent and zealous for the prosperity of the cause in your State. This camp-meeting is an omen of good for the prosperity of the truth among you, and will test your interest for the cause. Bro. and sister White, Bro. Littlejohn, and others, will be in attendance, this being their eleventh camp-meeting held in the different States this season. Sr. White's long experience as a public speaker will add much to the interest of this meeting, and, in connecting with the excellent labors of others and the blessing of God, will afford a spiritual benefit too precious to be lost, and worth making a great effort to obtain. This meeting will be held near Kokomo, a place accessible by railroad. You will find in the next REVIEW the definite place of this meeting; also we will mail you bills for that purpose. And now, brethren, will you make a rally that this camp-meeting may not be the last held among you? Though you have but a short notice, make up your minds to come on receipt of this, and then make your worldly business bend to it. By so doing, you will surely be on hand. Let nothing but sickness prevent. Be on the ground as early as Wednesday, the 5th, so as to be fully prepared to commence meetings on the 6th. Come, calculating to defray the expenses of this meeting as far as you can. May Indiana come nobly up to the work, with others. There will be on the ground our large Michigan tent, also five smaller ones from Battle Creek to rent to those who cannot otherwise provide themselves. All who can provide themselves with tents should be sure to do so. If you know of tents that have been used at other camp-meetings that you can borrow or hire, bring them on. If there are any army tents you can get, procure them, they are excellent. If you are scattered and alone so you cannot procure a tent, bring a strip of heavy cotton factory cloth, twelve yards in length, which can be sewed together, and so provide yourselves with tents, and benefit each other. This cloth can be sewed together after you get on the ground, used for the meeting, and afterward used for clothing, as you may need. A little effort made in this direction will secure quite a good many tents and make all comfortable. Those who can, had better bring stoves. Provisions will be sold on the ground. Still all who can, had better bring them. Flesh food, poultry, &c., are not the most proper articles of diet to use on such an occasion. Come one, come all. Bring your unconverted children. Induce your friends to come with you, the more the better. Make a mighty effort to sustain this meeting; and may the blessing of God reward you. Those wishing to learn the views we entertain, will have an excellent opportunity at this meeting. Try to induce them to come.