Camp-Meeting in the State of New York.
By John Nevins Andrews
THIS meeting is now near at hand. It is of great importance to the cause that there should be a general attendance of the brethren throughout the State. We need the encouragement of this meeting, and it must not be lost by us from a failure to attend it. Some cannot come. There are a few who are too feeble to do this. There are also some who are too poor to raise the means. But both these classes amount to only a small number. There are also those who are too worldly to come. We hope that these will be found to be a very small number indeed. But we shall see when the meeting convenes. It requires some effort to get together from so large a territory as that of our Conference. But the most can do this if they will make the effort. It would be more convenient to some of our friends if the meeting were a little later. But we cannot have camp-meetings in succession in so many States, and each have the most convenient time. We greatly need the meeting, and we cannot afford to lose the labors of the servants of Christ, that we expect with us at that time. So let us make a general rally. And let us gather to the meeting with hearts purposed to seek God. Remember that the State Conference is to meet on Wednesday morning, Aug. 3, and that our camp-meeting is to begin the evening of the fourth.
J. N. ANDREWS.