p. 176 | My Appointments by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1873

My Appointments.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

I CALL THE attention of the brethren interested, to my appointments in this week's paper. I have had to give up my general meetings from the fact that the friends do not realize what they are for, viz., simply to look after Sabbath-keepers and attend to the business matters of the church so that everything may be in order before Conference. When I appoint these meetings, the brethren make them as public as possible, and thus we are so embarrassed that the real object is entirely defeated, while little or nothing is done to help outsiders. The persons we want at these meetings are, 1. Every member of the church. 2. Every Sabbath-keeper in the vicinity of these churches who does not belong to the church, especially those who are in trial or backslidden. 3. The youth and children of our brethren. Make a special effort to have these there.

We will attend to baptism and the ordinances, and all other business matters. Meetings will hold only one day in each place, except at Tenhassen.

D. M. CANRIGHT.