To the Brethren of the Minn. Conference.
At our Camp-meeting in 1874 it was decided to purchase three 40 feet tents and send them out into the field, and steps were taken to do so. Subscriptions were taken at that time to pay for these tents, and the pledges were to be paid in one year. Your Committee borrowed the money and purchased the tents, and they have now been in the field two seasons. But up to this time not one quarter of those pledges has been paid. Now, we would say to those whose subscriptions are still unpaid, Your pledges are in the hands of the director of your district, and we hope all who can will soon meet them, so that we can be released from the debt that is on our hands. From our last camp-meeting our preaching brethren started out into new fields with these tents trusting in God. The Lord has blessed their efforts. Between sixty and seventy persons have embraced the truth as the result of their labors this season. But those who are laboring in new fields are poor and have families to care for. Winter is coming on and our Conference treasury is empty. Not more than two or three churches have paid their S. B. since our camp-meeting. The first quarter of our Conference year is past, and we hope that each church treasurer will forward his church pledges to our Conference treasurer so that the urgent calls for means by those who have labored through the summer can be met. Brethren and sisters, do the best you can in this time of need, and God will bless you.