STATE QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL MEETINGS.
THE State Quarterly Meeting will be held April 23 and 24, and our annual meeting of the Publishing Association takes place the 25th. For the convenience of our brethren we have arranged so that these meetings shall be held at the same time, to avoid the necessity of two trips, and that there may be a more general attendance at the Quarterly Meeting. Our brethren are probably not aware of the importance of this meeting. This will be more than an ordinary Quarterly Meeting. At this time the work of the whole season must be laid out. It is very necessary that the various parts of the field shall be well represented. We want to meet representatives from every church here. In view of the business which will necessarily come before it, it will have all the importance of a special session of the California Conference. It is the only general meeting that can be held before the fall camp-meeting, and the success of the cause in this State during the coming summer will depend largely on the plans which may be devised and adopted at this time. We know that our brethren have sufficient interest in the cause to come if they understand the urgency of the case. We assure you that the case is urgent ; the signs of the times, the condition of the world, and the state of our cause, combine to arouse us to action now. It is equally desirable that there be a general attendance of all the brethren and sisters in the southern part of the State at the Fresno Camp-meeting. Matters of importance will there be considered, and you all need the influence of the meeting. Let there be a rally at this time to all these meetings, and we feel assured that God will bless our united efforts to advance his cause. We hope that no one will consider that he is excused from coming by sending a proxy to the Annual Meeting. As a precaution, we send proxy blanks to all stockholders ; but you are needed at this and the other meetings.