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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 29, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 10.

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THEN

By A. S. Hutchins

WHEN? At the time of our soon-coming camp-meeting, shall we see a general turnout of our brethren and sisters? For three years past we have been favored at our annual meetings with the labors of Bro. and Sr. White, and other brethren from abroad, for which we are thankful. This year the General Conference promise us the presence and labors of Sr. White and Brn. E. W. Farnsworth and U. Smith.
Will not our brethren in all parts of the State and in the Province of Quebec make the sacrifice needful to come up to this annual gathering? The servants of the Lord will have important truths to proclaim to us, and important duties will come before the State Conference and T. and M. Society.
Morrisville is easy of access for Canada and all Northern and Central Vermont, and with the present arrangements with railroads to carry to and from the meeting for fare one way, all are much favored who wish to take cars as far south in the State as Manchester or Bellows Falls. There is no prospect that such a meeting will be held again in Lamoille county. Then we hope to see many of the brethren, with their children and friends, here to participate in the blessings of the meetings.
Then we hope all dues to our T. and M. society, will be paid, and all S. B. will be paid, if possible, up to the close of the last quarter. It will be expected then, that the books of the Conference, and T. and M., and S. B. treasurers will be audited, and the librarians’ books will be examined.
Come, then, dear brethren and sisters, up to this annual convocation of the saints of the Lord. Come as earnest seekers after the blessing of Heaven. Come to do good where the way may open for work. Come, not as spectators, but as those whose hearts overflow, to get good and impart good. Come to carry home the good spirit of the meeting to the aged and feeble who cannot meet with us, and others necessarily detained at home. If it seems like a sacrifice to any to come, think of one of the old Vermont brethren who drove his team some three hundred miles this year to get to the Minnesota camp-meeting, a brother seventy-five years of age.
A. S. HUTCHINS.