Texas Camp-Meeting and Conference
By W. A. McCutchen
AFTER repeated efforts we have at last secured good grounds at Waco for our camp-meeting, where for two years we have wished to hold it. The only suitable location at this place has heretofore been unobtainable, but it is now under the control of a gentleman who, being friendly to us, has granted it to us, free of cost, for our camp-meeting. The ground is a good one, with ample room, shade, and water, being a grove of fifteen or twenty acres in the outskirts of the city, with good street-car facilities for reaching the same. There is a running stream of clear spring water passing through the back part of the grounds, furnishing a bountiful supply of stock water. Besides this, the water company gives us water from its pipes. In addition to ample shade for the tents and campers, there is good shade, and plenty of it, for teams that are desired to be kept on the grounds. We also expect to have good pasturage for those not wishing to keep their teams tied up. And now to the brethren and sisters throughout the entire State I wish to say: This place is more central than any where we have ever had our camp-meeting, and we hope the attendance will be larger than ever before. It takes our meeting a little farther away from a large number of our people in northern Texas, where the meetings have been held heretofore, but carries it nearer those of central and southern Texas, and I am sure the brethren of the northern part of the State gladly make this concession. We have done all we could to get the meeting well and centrally located, and to provide every convenience, and in view of the importance of this annual gathering, particularly for this year, and our great need of the mighty outpouring of God's Spirit, may we not have a larger attendance of our brethren than has ever been seen at a Texas camp-meeting? I hope so. More will be given later as to rates, routes, help that will be present, etc., but let all begin to plan to attend this meeting, July 29 to August 9. W. A. McCUTCHEN, President Texas Conf.