Tents for the Coming Season.
By George I. Butler
THE season is just upon us when tents will be needed for camp and tent-meetings. Our friends who will want to attend the camp-meetings, especially in the West, should be considering this matter. We hope our brethren generally will try to furnish themselves as far as they are able with good duck tents, for their own comfort and health in case of storm, and that they may present a respectable appearance upon the camp-ground. If any desire to purchase tents in Chicago, and do not know with whom to transact the business, or how to secure what they want at the most reasonable prices, let them write to me or to the REVIEW Office. I am well acquainted with the parties in Chicago, and can help them; though I should much prefer that they do their own business. I wish especially to call the attention of the different State Conference Committees to the matter of small tents for our young preachers. This was tried in Iowa and Wisconsin last year. Forty-foot tents were purchased. These will seat two hundred people—more than any common school-house, and as many as a medium-sized country church. They are light, cost only about half as much as our large tents, and require no tent-master, and they can be taken to any neighborhood and set up without difficulty. They are not in as much danger in a storm, and, in the cases I have mentioned, have proved a success. We can carry our meeting-house with us then wherever we please to go. With them we can go, indeed, into the highways and hedges and reach the people where they are. I think they will prove a success if managed by God-fearing and devoted men. I hope our Conference Committees will consider this matter.