GENERAL CONFERENCE DISTRICT 3.
By A. J. Breed
THE Ohio camp-meeting was held on the fair grounds, within the city limits of Dayton, August 15–26. Excessive heat prevented the general attendance hoped for, but there was a greater number605of our own people present than last year. On account of rain, and the grounds being used for other purposes, it was late before the meeting opened, which made it difficult to have services before Sabbath evening. Sunday morning the Conference was organized, and committees were appointed. The business, of which there was considerable, passed off pleasantly. Four new churches were admitted to the Conference. The laborers from outside the Conference were Elders Irwin and Haskell and their wives. They all entered into the work of the meeting with an interest that showed they had a burden for it. The State laborers did all they could to make the meeting a success. The work of Mt. Vernon Academy was represented by those connected with it, and showed a more prosperous year than for some time in the past. The growing interest in the State on the subject of education is encouraging. Several church schools were conducted the last year. Our brethren are ready to sustain any careful work done for the young, and our schools are proving a means of fitting laborers, for whom there is great need, for the home and foreign fields. There has been an increase in the Conference finances, and if the brethren will let that spirit of sacrifice come in which was among those in the early message, the work will go forward, the world will be warned, and the Lord will soon come for his waiting people. May the time hasten when we can all join in saying, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.” Elder A. G. Haughey was elected president and some changes were made in the officers of the Conference, a full account of which will be found in the Ohio State paper, the Welcome Visitor. It will be quite impossible to give a full report of the meeting, as I left before it closed, in order to reach the camp in Illinois at the time of its opening. A good meeting is now in progress at Kankakee, with the prospect of a larger attendance than we have had for a number of years. A good interest is being awakened among the people of the city, who request that the meetings be continued.