To the Brethren in Illinois.
By R. F. Andrews
DEAR BRETHREN: We need a second tent for our Conference. God has been hearing our prayers in raising up laborers, and now we want to give them an opportunity to labor to the best advantage. We calculate sending the tent we now have to the southern part of the State to be pitched early in May, and we want to have the new one pitched in the vicinity where our camp-meeting is to be held as soon as the weather will answer. We want you, brethren, to take right hold of this work as one man. Those who did comparatively nothing toward paying for our first tent are especially invited to take hold of this in earnest. Let the elders and leading brethren in the different churches ascertain what can be done in their several communities. Get all the ready cash you can, and take pledges payable the first of June. Let all the scattered friends of the cause in the State report for themselves what they will do. It will take an earnest and united effort from all to accomplish this object, but it can and must be done. Send the money and pledges to me, to New Genesee, Whiteside Co., Ill., by the first day of May. I can borrow for a short time the amount unpaid and immediately purchase the tent. Now, brethren, let us be expeditious in this matter and work for our Master while we have opportunity. The night is coming in which none can work. The rich and their hoarded treasures will soon be consumed together, while the faithful, sacrificing ones will enter into the joy of their Lord. We sincerely hope that there will be nothing but generosity and liberality manifested in this matter. Should there be one or two hundred dollars raised more than necessary to purchase the tent, it will all be used to advance this precious cause. “The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.” R. F. ANDREWS, for Conference Committee.