Camp-Meeting in Michigan.
By George I. Butler
The readers of the REVIEW will notice the appointment this week of the place for this meeting at Battle Creek. It is doubtless as central as any place, and as the ground used last year was a pleasant one, and the lumber and stands are already there, and it will require very little expense to fix up the ground, the State Committee thought best to appoint it here. And as the next annual meeting of the Health Institute is to be held in connection with this meeting, it will doubtless be easier to get enough stockholders together here to hold a legal meeting than at any other place. Last year we came very near not having a sufficient number of stockholders present to hold a legal meeting. The law requires that a majority of the stock shall be represented. All stockholders, then, in other States as well as in Michigan, who cannot be present, should make out proxies, so that their stock may be represented. If they have made out their proxies to parties who they know cannot be present, they can now make them to others. The law requires that meetings of the stockholders be held annually. Let all, then, interested in the Institute see that their stock is represented. This will be an important meeting for the cause in the State of Michigan. There will be considerable business to be attended to. It is important, therefore, that all be upon the ground in season to commence with the meeting Thursday morning. Every tent should be up Wednesday night, and all should remain through Monday. Our farewell meeting, Tuesday morning, is generally one of great interest. During Sunday, when the crowd comes, the minds of all are liable to be led away from the important object of the meeting, and Monday is one of the most important days of all. Come, brethren, at the beginning, and stop till the close. Come to work in the cause of present truth. Come to humble your hearts and chasten your souls, that the Lord may meet with us. Bring your children and your unconverted friends, and let us make this one of the best meetings we have ever enjoyed. To enable the brethren everywhere to carry out the above suggestions, we append the following: I—— ——, of the town of ——, in the State of ——, owning — shares in the Health Reform Institute of Battle Creek, Mich., being desirous of voting in the meetings of the Institute, hereby empower —— ——, of the town of ——, in the State of ——, to cast my vote on any question that may come before any meeting of the stockholders, which I am not able to attend, until this proxy shall be revoked by some document issued to another person. Witness my hand and seal this — day of ——, in the year of our Lord, 1873. Signed, ———————. Dated —— ——, 1873. This writing should be acknowledged before any justice of the peace, if the stockholder is not a member of the church, or certified by the elder or clerk of any church to which such member belongs, or by any S. D. Adventist minister in good standing. Then inclose the proxy to the one you desire to cast your vote, when you have thus made your proxy. I suggest that those persons who have come to Battle Creek from the different Conferences, to represent the cause, would be good men to act as proxies. Bro. Benn Auten and Wm. Ings are here from Iowa, Bro. Chas. W. Comings from New England, Brn. Lindsay, Abbey, and Gaskill from New York. We trust our brethren will see to it that we are not hindered from holding a legal meeting for lack of shares being represented.