BUSINESS REPORT OF THE N. Y. CONFERENCE.
On first-day, Sept. 15, 1861, at 9 o'clock A. M., the brethren assembled under the tent at Lyndonville, N. Y., for the purpose of transacting the business of the conference. Bro. E. B. Saunders was called to the chair, and J. M. Aldrich appointed secretary. Financial report being called for, Bro. M. Hull reported as follows: Received during the season for tent operations, $428,38. Paid out for tent expenses (exclusive of his traveling expenses) $183,32. Leaving balance to be accounted for by him, $295,06. The conference then voted to allow Bro. Hull $225,00, which left remaining in the treasury, $70,06. Brn. J. T. Orton, J. Lamson and J. M. Lindsey were appointed as a committee to appropriate the balance of the tent fund. On motion it was resolved that we will do what we can to run the tent and sustain it in new fields in this State the next year. Brn. E. O. Fish, L. R. Chapel, Ira Abbey, J. M. Lindsey and J. T. Orton were appointed to act as tent committee for the next season. On motion it was unanimously resolved that Bro. M. Hull be invited to labor with the tent in this State the next season, and also that he be requested and authorized to invite and secure if possible a yoke-fellow to labor with him. J. M. Aldrich was appointed as corresponding committee with reference to the matter contained in the foregoing resolution. The following resolution, being presented for the consideration of the conference, was moved and adopted without opposition: Whereas, We have witnessed with pain the distracting influence of anti-organization among us, and, Whereas, We now see the necessity of church organization, therefore Resolved, That we sympathize with those who have labored against opposition in setting the subject before us. In response to a call for pledges for the support of the tent next season, the amount of $363,00 was immediately subscribed. Brethren, the list is still open. Let us take hold of this matter with willing hands. Let not the proclamation of the third angel be retarded for want of means. If we are to operate with but one tent the next season in this State, there is no reason why that tent, and those laboring with it, should not be liberally sustained. Let us then, in accordance with the spirit of the resolution of this conference, do what we can, and all we can, to further the cause of present truth, and to proclaim the last warning message among those who are yet ignorant concerning it. Let us not say, "There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest," for truly the fields "are white already to harvest." And may we realize that "he that reapeth, receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal." E. B. SAUNDERS, Chairman.
J. M. ALDRICH, Secretary. P. S. The next monthly meeting of the brethren in Western N. Y. will be held on the second Sabbath in October, at J. M. Aldrich's hall, in Somerset.