To the Churches in Michigan by Mich. Conf. Com.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1872

To the Churches in Michigan.

By Mich. Conf. Com.

THE Conference for 1872 is right at hand. Choose your delegates. The following is the ratio: “Each church, to the number of twenty members, or under, is entitled to one delegate, and one delegate for every additional fifteen members,” over the first twenty. Thus, if you have thirty-five members, you are entitled to two delegates, if fifty, three, and so on. Let every church have its delegate or delegates on the ground if possible. If this cannot be done, don’t fail to make a full response by letter.

Bring reports which shall state,

The number of members at the time of last Conference.
The number of additions since that time, by letter, or conversion.
The losses, by death, letter, or apostasy.
The present number, after adding the gains and deducting the losses.
How many pay Systematic Benevolence.
What amount of S. B. is pledged.
What proportion you devote to Conference use.
How many Sabbath-school scholars you have.

Let every delegate before he leaves his home look these points all over, and see that he is prepared to report on every one.

THINGS TO BE LEFT AT HOME.

All home cares and perplexing affairs; everything that would harass the mind and distract it from the worship of God. Throw these all off, and come to give yourselves wholly up to the object of the meeting.
All roots of bitterness, personal jealousies and bickerings, and church trials generally, if you have any such on hand. We have been happily free from them thus far. Let us keep so. Let union prevail. Let love reign supreme. This ought to be the largest and best Conference and camp-meeting we have ever held. It can be. We expect it will be.

MICH. CONF. COM.