General Meeting for Western Iowa and Nebraska.
By George I. Butler
After consultation, the Iowa and Nebraska Conference Committee have concluded that it will be best for the interests of the cause to have a meeting of several days’ duration, at some central point, either in Western Iowa or Eastern Nebraska, immediately following the general quarterly meeting appointed in the REVIEW for Victor, Iowa, September 30 and October 1. Our Conference is so large that but very few of the brethren and sisters of that section can attend our camp-meetings, which are held so far east, to accommodate the main body of our people. The distance is too great. The people generally are too poor, and have too much on their hands in that new country at the time of our general camp-meeting. But the friends of the cause in that section greatly need the benefits of a general meeting, being mostly young in the faith, and members of small churches which can have but little preaching. They need help and encouragement. There will be persons desiring baptism, who might otherwise be deprived of the privilege for a long time. Our scattered brethren will also have a chance to hear. We therefore conclude to have such a meeting, perhaps of three days’ duration, at which we will have at least one of our preaching tents, and to which our people should come prepared to take care of themselves, at the time above mentioned. I desire to hear at once from our preaching brethren and other leading brethren in that section, as to the best place to hold this meeting, so that we can give out the definite appointment immediately. Bro. Boyd will please take considerable responsibility in this direction, as one well acquainted with different localities, and specially interested in the progress of the cause in that field. Address me at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. Iowa & Neb. Conf.