Conference and State Missionary Meeting.
By Cal. Conf. Committee
As appointed elsewhere in this paper, our State Conference and State Missionary Society will hold their regular yearly business sessions for election of officers in connection with our camp meeting, October 1-12. There are steps to be taken by all our churches that they may be prepared to enter upon the business of those meetings without distraction. The churches, all who have gone so far as to organize Systematic Benevolence and appoint a leader, are entitled to representation in our Conference by delegates; and according to our State Constitution they are entitled to delegates in the following ratio: One delegate for every church of twenty members, or less, and one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. These delegates are to be elected by vote of the church where they reside. Elect your delegates soon and write to the State Conference Secretary, Wm. Saunders, Woodland, Cal., stating the number of delegates you have elected, and he will send you blanks to be filled out for certificates of election of delegates. He will also send you at the same time for each church a blank entitled Church Report, and Financial Report. These are to be filled out by the Church Clerk and S. B. Treasurer, and sent by delegates to the Camp Meeting. The church books and papers, and S. B. books from each church should be brought to the Conference, as it may be necessary to make reference to them. Each church should also furnish a report to the State Missionary Secretary, J. W. Bond, Healdsburg, Cal., of their missionary work for the last year up to October 1st, in order that he may prepare a report of the whole matter for the State Missionary meeting. Each Church Treasurer should make it a point to have his S. B. accounts all square up to the first of October, and pay the same to the State Conference Treasurer, T. M. Chapman, as soon as convenient after reaching the Camp Ground, that he may be enabled to make his reports. All the State Conference and Missionary officers should bring their books, blanks, and vouchers to the Conference. The churches of Napa, St. Helena, and Red Bluff, are so far organized that they can be admitted into the Conference, and they should pass a written resolution to that effect, if they desire to unite, sending the same to the Conference by the hand of their delegates. Let us be prompt in all these things, not doing "the work of the Lord negligently."