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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 2.

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Change of Appointment.

The Conference appointed at Springfield, Mass., has been changed to Lancaster, Mass. The cause of this change will be found in the following letter from Bro. Nichols:
DEAR BRO. AND SISTER WHITE: We have received Review, No. 25, in which there is an appointment that you will meet with the brethren and sisters in conference at Springfield, Mass., May 23d and 24th.
Since your proposal to meet with the brethren and sisters in a general tent-meeting in Mass., it was contemplated that the tent-meeting should be at Lancaster, Mass., and that you meet with the brethren and sisters there, at such a time as would be convenient.
The brethren think that Lancaster is the place, and that much good will result from a general tent-meeting in that place. There has been considerable interest for the truth awakened there, and quite a number have embraced the Sabbath, and the last message.
Lancaster is the most central place for the accommodation of the brethren and sisters in southern N. H., and all eastern Mass., and those as far west as Springfield, and the towns bordering on the Connecticut river. This town is easy of access from the west, and from the north, the east, and the south. There is a Rail Road from Lancaster to the noted junction at Groton, where the Worcester and Nashua, the Boston and Fitchburg, and a number of other Rail Roads intersect. The portable seats for the tent are made at Lancaster, and the tent is at Princeton, about 12 miles distant.
For the above considerations, the brethren desire that you would re-consider your appointment at Springfield and make another through the Review, to meet with the brethren and sisters in a general tent-meeting, to be held at Lancaster, Mass., commencing May 23d.
The above expressions are in accordance with the minds of Bro. Folsom and others, with the request that I write the same to you. Bro. F. has seen Bro. Saxby of Springfield, who coincides with the above arrangements. We think if you meet with the tent at Lancaster, there will be quite a gathering there.
We remain as ever in much love. O. NICHOLS. Dorchester, Mass., May 3d, 1857.