Camp-Meetings Appointments and Planning for 1875
By James White
We have purposed to visit all parts of the American field possible during 1875. We hope to attend all the camp-meetings, closing up the season at the California encampment, and the North Pacific Mission. And it is time to arrange appointments, as to time and place, and to have the attention of our people called to proper help. We are making a mistake in securing one set of men, year after year, to go the rounds of all our camp-meetings, and especially in having these men do all the preaching at the camp-meetings, and thus, shutting off other good gifts. Our younger ministers must be pressed forward to do a part of the preaching. And, probably, as the number of our camp-meetings increases, we shall have to have two at the same time in adjoining States. In that case we could spend two days at each meeting, and get around by the first of October to the California camp-meeting. Iowa should hold her meeting as early as possible. Missouri and Kansas must follow. Minnesota in July. And the meetings in Michigan, one week each, should come in the last of July or very first of August, and others in New York and New England follow, one or more each week. We shall expect to hear from Conference Committees and ministers on this subject in season. JAMES WHITE.