Biblical Institute for New York and Pennsylvania.
It is now decided that this Institute will be held three weeks, commencing Tuesday, March 19, 1878. The services of Eld. U. Smith, who has so successfully conducted these Institutes in other localities, have been secured for this occasion. The place will be announced next week. We make this statement in answer to the many inquiries as to the date at which the Institute will be held, and also to call attention to the fact that especial efforts for its success should be made by all the friends of the cause in this Conference. No one who has any just idea of the wants of the cause among us can question the necessity that such an Institute should be held. When we consider that within the limits of our Conference are included more than one-fifth the entire population of the nation, and then remember how few we have to publicly proclaim the message, we can certainly see the importance of using such means as this for preparing laborers for the field. Not less than one hundred young men and women should attend this Institute, and have the benefit of the instruction they can receive there. Will all our churches attend to this at once, and see that the proper persons are encouraged to attend; also that means are raised to defray the expenses of those who are unable to meet the expense themselves? We request all who expect to attend, and all who feel anxious to do so but do not feel able, to correspond with Eld. B. L. Whitney, Rome, N. Y., that proper arrangements may be made, and that those who are worthy may, if possible, receive assistance. Further particulars next week. Conf. Committee.