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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 2.

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BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS

Of the Conference at Knoxville, Iowa.

BUSINESS Conference was organized May 19, at 9 A. M., by calling Eld. J. H. Waggoner to the chair, and choosing D. W. Hull secretary. Prayer by the moderator.
By request, Bro. Waggoner made some remarks on the object of the meeting. He said that he came here under peculiar circumstances; a stranger to all, in a strange country; that some discouragements had been presented to him relative to coming here, on the state of the cause, &c. Fears had been expressed that the brethren would not take hold vigorously and sustain the work. He felt the responsibility of trying, feeble and worn as he was, to occupy the field so efficiently occupied by Bro. Hull, and whose place he could not expect fully to fill. Besides these, he was to labor with one who had had but little experience in this work, and they wanted to counsel with the churches, that the efforts of all might be united—that the prayers and sympathies of the churches might go with them in their labors.
Bro. Whitney, of the tent committee, reported that the churches had pledged for the support of the cause as follows:
Knoxville, $ 200,00 Rosseau, $ 66,00
Pleasantville & Fairfield, 35,50
Sandyville, 62,00 Decatur City &
Newbern, 40,00 Osceola, 85,75
Total, $ 489,25
Paid in of the above (cash), 40,45
The amount pledged is not equal to the amount proposed to be raised, but the churches in Afton and Vernon have not been heard from.
Bro. Shortridge said he trusted the work would be fully sustained. God has blessed us with a rich and beautiful country, where the means of subsistence are easily obtained. He plead earnestly at Battle Creek for a laborer to come with him to Southern Iowa. The brethren in Michigan have been and are ready to send the truth here, but he felt ashamed when he saw them there on their little farms, with often three or four stumps on every square rod, and about fifteen stones on the same, and on some farms the piles of stones were as thick as hay-cocks on the best meadows, places that he would not accept as a gift, and they offering to help support the cause in Iowa.
A letter was read from Bro. Landis, of Chariton, requesting that the tent be first pitched there. After consultation, it was moved and unanimously carried, that the tent be first pitched in Oskaloosa.
The tent-committee, by instruction, secured the services of Bro. Benj. Auton, as tent-master.
Adjourned till afternoon.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Prayer by Bro. Patterson.
The moderator announced that the Knoxville church wished to select two brethren at this time, to act as elders of this church. Brn. Patterson and Hillis were chosen.
Moved by Bro. Patterson that the church at Knoxville extend an invitation to Bro. Shortridge to move his family to this place. Carried.
The Pleasantville brethren afterward wished to join in the invitation.
Voted that the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Advent Review.
Adjourned with singing and prayer.
J. H. WAGGONER, Chairman. D. W. HULL, Secretary.