To the Churches in the New England Conference.
By S. N. Haskell
THE time of our camp-meeting is drawing near. We hope it will be the most profitable meeting ever held in New England, and this can be if we consecrate ourselves to God, and seek him after his order. 1. Let arrangement be made so we can freely and unreservedly devote this entire time to seeking God. 2. If we have confessions to make to our friends and neighbors, let us make them before we start for the meeting, that no sin may follow us there. 3. Pay all your vows to the Lord, whether they be pledges on Systematic Benevolence, or free will offerings to any other enterprises connected with this work; if not before the meeting, come prepared to do it at the meeting, if it is at a sacrifice. Remember that God invites us to prove him and see if he will not pour us out a blessing until there is not room enough to receive it, by these very things. See Mal. 3:10. 4. Come with your hearts broken, that Christ may heal and you be prepared to enter with full sympathy into every enterprise connected with this work that may be set forth by God's servants, and thus practically stay up their hands. Time is short, and what is done must be done quickly. If we let the present golden moments pass unimproved, our prospect for overcoming will not be as good as before. There is no failure in the work. If there is any failure it will be with us, and this need not be. God has called us into his vineyard to labor, and if we move forward in his work, serve him with a full purpose of heart, never lay the armor down until the victory is won, we shall reap an everlasting reward. S. N. HASKELL.