New York and Pennsylvania State Conference.
THE New York and Pennsylvania State Conference will hold its fourth annual session at Nile, Alleghany Co., N. Y., sixth-day, Oct. 13, 1865, at 9 o'clock A. M. All the churches belonging to this Conference, and those wishing to unite with it, are requested to represent themselves by delegates or letter. Delegates are to be chosen according to the following ratio: Each church to the number of twenty members or under, one delegate, and one delegate for every additional fifteen members. Delegates will bring letters showing their appointment. Churches will be careful to send a written report of their standing, their losses and additions of membership during the year, and also the amount of S. B. fund. Ministers belonging to this Conference will come prepared to present written reports of each week's labor, and expenses and receipts. These reports must state the number of meetings held, and where they were held, each week. Brethren, in view of the solemn time in which we are living, and the awful scenes that are before us, and the magnitude of the work to be done to prepare a people to escape the wrath to come, and to stand before the Son of man at his appearing, let us come up to this meeting full of the Spirit and power of religion, having purified ourselves by obeying the truth, and being sanctified by the Spirit, be prepared to work in unison with God's people in the great duties connected with the closing work of probation. A general invitation is extended to all the brethren and sisters to attend this meeting. A special invitation is extended to Bro. and sister White to attend. Delegates will please come prepared to settle up the pledges of the churches to the end of the Conference year, Oct. 1, that the Conference may be able to meet the demands against it. A. LANPHEAR,
J. N. ANDREWS,
C. O. TAYLOR, } N. Y. Conf. Com. P. S. As there are but few here to entertain the Conference, it is expected that all who can, will come prepared to take care of themselves as far as possible, by bringing bedclothes, buffalo robes, provisions, &c., for themselves and others. Our houses are generally small, but our barns will make up the deficiency. Brethren coming to this place will stop at Friendship Station, on the N. Y. & E. R. R., eighty miles east of Dunkirk, and thirty-eight west of Hornellsville. As the meeting will be two and a half miles from the depot, teams will meet the trains on the 12th of Oct. to convey passengers to the meeting. A. L.