REASONS FOR CHANGES IN DATE AND PLACE OF HOLDING OUR GENERAL CAMP-MEETING.
By Editor
(a) The special railway rates can be secured on the date selected (Aug 11-21.) (b) Nearly all reports from churches favor the middle of August. (c) This date, and also the place, will exactly suit in the important matter of following the large tent effort in Los Angeles, which must close July 31st, and will give ample time to transfer the pavilion to the camp ground. (d) The date decided upon will greatly economize the time of Elders Owen and Simpson, so that they can have the full months of September and October for a series of meetings in San Diego, and they did not feel free to have the general camp-meeting break into the midst of the series of meetings in San Diego. (e) This date will give time for some of our College Faculty to go to all of our churches, after camp-meeting, and work continuously till September 15, to help our young people in planning to attend our college. (a) The selection of a place near the center of our conference, and also the holding of a local camp-meeting at San Diego, will enable probably one-third more of our people to attend than could possibly do so if only one meeting were held, and that at San Diego. (b) Nearly all of our people voted in favor of two meetings; the general camp-meeting and conference, in or near Los Angeles, and the local meeting at San Diego. (c) Our conference funds are very low, and it will cost much less to hold the general meeting at Los Angeles than at San Diego, on account of our conference tents and supplies being stored in or near Los Angeles. With such preponderating weight of evidence in favor of holding the two meetings as above outlined, and the decision having been virtually made by our churches, the conference committee feels clear in announcing the two meetings, at Los Angeles for Aug. 11-21, and at San Diego, Sept. 7-17. Southern California Conference Committee. The Sabbath-school lessons have been discontinued. The Lesson Quarterly may be obtained, containing three months' lessons and notes, for five cents. Address, Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal. The Sunday-school lessons will continue.