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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 19.

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Report of Conferences.

By S. Pierce

The New England Conference convened at Bro. Paul Folsom's, in Summerville, Jan. 12th, 1857, and organized.
The importance of having a Book depository in each State where there is none, was duly considered; and voted to raise by subscription what is practicable for a Book fund to be distributed in the several States, in proportion to the sums raised in each State.
Voted that Bro. Paul Folsom be general agent of this Book fund. Note.—Will the several churches forward their donations for Book fund to Bro. Folsom as early as possible, so that the Books will be in readiness when wanted.
Voted that the Tent be put in operation as early in the season as is proper, if the Lord will.
Voted that S. Howland of Topsham, A. Barnes of Canaan, and Wm. Bryant of Jay, be Tent Committee for the State of Maine.
Voted that A. Kimball of Hampton, A. Belden of Kensington, and J. Y. Wilcox of Middletown, be Tent Committee for the State of Connecticut.
Voted that O. Nichols of Dorchester, S. N. Haskell of Princetown, and D. Johnson of Springfield, be Tent Committee for the State of Massachusetts.
The brethren can forward their free-will offerings for the support of the Tent operations the ensuing season, to any of the above Committee respectively.
At the Irasburgh Conference in Vt., Feb. 15th, 1857, there was a Book fund raised to the amount of fifty dollars; also a Tent Committee of five appointed, consisting of the following names: Jesse Barrows, A. R. Morse, Hiram Bingham, C. R. Austin, and S. Pierce. The brethren in Vt. can transmit their free-will offerings for the support of the Tent operations the coming season to any of the above Committee.
The above meetings, together with the Conference at Washington, N. H., were meetings of deep interest to all present. There seemed to be a turning to the Lord, with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. A rending of the heart and not of the garment, was manifest from the deep and hearty confessions of faults there made. A becoming zeal in the work of repentance in view of our lukewarm state, our poverty, nakedness, wretchedness, and blindness, seemed to be very general, if not universal.
The overwhelming conviction seemed to rest upon the minds there generally, that judgment is about beginning "at the house of God" among the living saints.
What earnestness, yea, what clearing of ourselves, yea what fear, yea what vehement desire, yea what zeal, this conviction wrought in us, to obtain the gold tried in the fire, the white raiment to hide our nakedness, and the eye-salve that we may see!
May the Lord speed the work, till all the church, children and all, shall, when the King comes in to see the guests, have on the wedding garment.
S. PIERCE, Chairman. E. L. BARR, Secretary.