IOWA AND NEBRASKA CAMP-MEETING.
By E. W. Farnsworth
THE Iowa camp-meeting will be held at Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., about one mile south-west from the depot, on the road to Beacon. As the time for this meeting is drawing near, there are a few things to which we would like to call the attention of our brethren. It is evident that this meeting will be an important one. Our Conference year has been longer than usual, consequently there will be much more business to attend to. We expect that Bro. Haskell will be present, so that our brethren may hope to receive much valuable instruction in all parts of the T. and M. work. This is greatly needed, and we believe all our brethren will avail themselves of the opportunity. We expect, also, that Bro. Butler will be there. And if Bro. and Sr. White feel that it is consistent with their many other burdens to stop with us on their way East, we most earnestly desire that they will do so. At our late quarterly meeting a resolution expressing this invitation was unanimously passed. In all probability our meeting will be longer this year than usual; either it will commence about Wednesday and close one week from that day, or it will commence Friday and hold over two Sabbaths. We will speak definitely of this soon. Our camp-meeting in Nebraska will be held at Seward, Seward Co. This is thought to be the most central point for all our people in that State. We request Brn. S. Rider, from Blue Valley, A. J. Cudney, from Seward, and Bro. Williams, from Weeping Water, to act as camp-meeting committee for this place. Our meeting in Nebraska will be an important one for the cause there, and we earnestly desire to see a general attendance from all parts of the State. This meeting will commence Thursday morning, Sept. 26, and close Tuesday morning, Oct. 1. We feel that we cannot urge our brethren too strongly to attend these meetings; they are becoming more and more important to our people. And we see plainly that those who take the most pains to attend these meetings, are, as a class, making far greater advancement than those who do not attend. We hope our brethren and sisters will make a greater effort than ever to bring their unconverted children, and their interested neighbors and friends. Every year at the close of the meeting we hear our people saying, “I wish my children, or I wish my neighbors had been here. I am sure they would have been converted,” and probably they would. Come, dear brethren and sisters, and bring those you wish to see converted. We shall not have many more camp-meetings on earth; we need to improve the present time. We hope the General Conference will not leave us without help in these Western meetings. We trust our people all over the Conference will make these meetings a subject of earnest prayer. We shall need a large measure of God’s Spirit with us. We hope to see a humbling of hearts before God by all of our people. We shall have a large assortment of books at all these meetings, both for the T. and M. society and for private sales.