CAMP-MEETING FOR VERMONT.
By A. S. Hutchins
No doubt our brethren have been waiting with anxiety to see something respecting the Vermont camp-meeting for 1879. The impression has been received by some that we were to have no camp-meeting this year. We have deferred saying anything through the REVIEW until we were quite certain as to the location of the meeting. One brother writes: “I have heard that Vermont would hold no camp-meeting this year. I had thought our yearly gatherings were deemed almost indispensable by nearly all S. D. Adventists; and the very suggestion that we are to pass this season by without one in our State, made me feel heart sick, and it seems to me I cannot have it so. Many of us have regarded our camp-meeting as the most profitable and interesting event of our lives during the year, and it is no sooner past than we are looking forward to another.” This, and what the brother continues to say, has the true ring in it. How many in the State feel like this? And how many during the ensuing two months or less, lying between the present time and that of the meeting, will make preparations to meet with us in our annual gathering, coming in season to have the benefit and blessings of the entire meeting? These meetings are too short and too precious to be cut up so as to get the benefit of only a portion of them, or to let them pass by and we not attend them, unless circumstances are such as to justify us in so doing. Many might attend our camp-meetings who do not, if they earlier arranged for it. One man was asked, Are you going to attend the caravan? His reply was, “Yes, we have arranged to go.” Soon after this he was asked, Are you going to camp-meeting? “No, we have not planned to go,” was his response. There are no places more central for our brethren in Vermont, than Morrisville and Essex Junction. The way has opened most favorably for the meeting at the latter place, and our request is before Eld. G. I. Butler for the meeting to be held early in September, if this would be the most convenient for him.