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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 23.

A Time for Everything
Earlier text: Sanitarium Relief Campaign

Why We Should Read Our General Church Paper

（First Reading）
As a denomination we are engaged in a great and mighty work. God has made us the conservators of the special truths for the last generation of men. He has brought into existence an organization, with means and agencies, for the carrying forward of this work in the world. Through the evangelical, educational, publishing, and medical departments of the work, much is being accomplished. The success which has attended each of these branches is truly phenomenal.
With the growth of our denominational work during the last few decades there has been a corresponding growth in our denominational literature. Starting with one church journal, the REVIEW AND HERALD, our denominational papers have now increased till we have nearly a score of general denominational publications in English, and nearly double that number of union and local conference papers, to say nothing of the continually growing list in the various languages of the world. Added to these messengers of truth, we have a large number of excellent books, pamphlets, and tracts on various phases of the message for this generation. Of our general church papers, nearly all are designed for missionary purposes. While every one can be read with great benefit by Seventh-day Adventists, and as far as possible should be found in every home, their primary purpose is to carry the principles of truth to those outside the church.
There is one journal, however, the ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD, the oldest general church paper of the denomination, which is designed particularly for the instruction and edification of the members of the church. The instruction it contains is peculiarly adapted to Seventh-day Adventists rather than to those not connected with this movement. It has stood from the earliest days of our work to the present time as a weekly news-bulletin and compendium of information of the onward march of this movement in all parts of the world. It designs, as far as possible, to gather the best from every source, and present it before the church of God as an incentive to deepening consecration, growing faith, brightening hope, and increasing activity. Its scope is not confined to any special field or interest, but it represents all fields and all the interests of the church. It requires but a cursory glance through its pages from week to week to convince all of this fact.
In the department of General Articles are found the best thoughts of some of the best writers of the denomination. What a valuable symposium of religious instruction and Scriptural exposition and comment may be found in this department! The Home and Health department endeavors to meet in a practical way the physical needs of every reader. Many have expressed themselves as having received untold benefit health-wise from following the plain, simple instruction given in this department from week to week. The Editorial department aims to deal with the living questions of the day, and to keep before the readers of the paper the progress of events, in fulfilment of divine prediction, which indicates the times in which we are living and the work we are required to accomplish. In the Field and World-Wide Field departments the progress of the work throughout the whole earth, showing the leadings of God's wonderful providence, and the blessed opportunity afforded us of assisting that work, is given in weekly cycle. Added to these general departments are those of the Church, the Medical Missionary, Christian Education, the Young People's Work, Christian Liberty, Publishing, and the Sanitarium Relief Campaign. These place before us the work that is being done by each great general department of the church, and the manner in which we should relate ourselves to these various branches of the organization.
In a special sense the officers of the General Conference speak through the columns of the REVIEW AND HERALD. The broad general plans of operation for the carrying forward of the message in different parts of the field are here discussed and explained.
Added to these departments, which have been a weekly feature of the REVIEW AND HERALD in the past, a new department will be added in the near future. For some time there has been a demand for a department in the REVIEW to be particularly devoted to the needs of our ministers, Bible workers, etc. Elder A. G. Daniells, the president of the General Conference, has consented to conduct a department of this character. He has in hand a large amount of valuable matter relating to the equipment and preparation of workers, methods of labor, preparation of sermons, ministerial department, etc. This instruction will be of inestimable value to every one now engaged in denominational work, and to the general reader as well. Principles will be taught which may profitably be applied to every heart and every home.
What a great and valuable compendium of information and instruction relating to the general church work is to be found in our pioneer church paper! Who can afford to be without this instruction? We may be subscribers to our conference or union conference paper. This is well and good. We surely should keep in touch with the details of our local work. But this can compensate only in a very small degree for the loss we shall sustain without a knowledge of the general work which will come to us through the columns of our general church paper. No one who does not obtain from time to time, either directly or indirectly, the information which the REVIEW imparts, can keep in his heart the spirit of this great movement. He will fall behind the rapid onward march of the message. There will be accomplished among the nations of men a great and mighty work, and he will know but little of it, because he has not provided himself with the means whereby this knowledge is obtainable.
Much may be learned of the great world-wide harvest-field by travel, but comparatively few will ever enjoy extensive privileges of this character. Valuable information may be obtained from returned missionaries, but opportunities for acquiring information in this way are also comparatively meager. We may learn from general gatherings, and from reading books, journals, etc. In the words of another: “All these agencies are good. They are most excellent means in a great propaganda. But they are only beads on a string. The unifying thread is the church paper. Break the string, and the pearls fall. But the paper holds the shining beads together. It uses every one of them. It gathers up what is good everywhere,—by travel, by books, by addresses of missionaries and sermons of pastors, by letters, and circulars, and conferences, and conventions, periodicals and magazines,—collates it, condenses it, and carries it right into the home, to instruct, to edify, and to entertain. It uses letter and telegraph and telephone, photograph and phonograph, etching and cartoon, cablegram and marconigram, and all the agencies known to modern newspaperdom to bring to the fireside of every family all the news and all the needs and all the varied activities of the entire Christian world, and also of the opaque, dull, sullen world lying starless in Christless night. And especially does our denominational paper bring before the denominational reader the record of the events transpiring within our own particular field. That is the province of the denominational paper.”
Speaking of the circulation which should be given to the REVIEW, the spirit of prophecy says:— “The REVIEW is a valuable paper; it contains matter of great interest to the church, and should be placed in every family of believers. If any are too poor to take it, the church should, by subscription, raise the amount of the full price of the paper, and supply the destitute families. How much better would this plan be than throwing the poor upon the mercies of the publishing-house or the tract and missionary society. . . .
“Our people should make greater efforts to extend the circulation of the REVIEW. If our brethren and sisters would only manifest greater earnestness, and put forth more persevering efforts to accomplish this, it would be done. Every family should have this paper. And if they would deny themselves their darling luxuries, tea and coffee, many who do not now have its weekly visits might pay for the messenger of light to come into their household. Almost every family takes one or more secular papers, and these frequently contain love stories and exciting tales of villainy and murder, which injure the minds of all who read them. Those who consent to do without the REVIEW AND HERALD lose much.”
“Through its pages, Christ may speak to them in warnings, in reproofs and counsel, which would change the current of their thoughts, and be to them as the bread of life.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. IV, pages 508, 509.
Our general church paper should have a place in every Seventh-day Adventist home; may this not be made possible during the present year? Will not every member of the church see to it that there are no families of the church-membership who can without this help? Particularly should the officers of the church interest themselves in this matter. A little time devoted to this will accomplish more than many exhortations. Let us rally to the support of our general church paper, and extend its circulation as far as possible. We shall find in this effort one of the most effective ways of increasing the power of this movement, and of maintaining in it an active interest and cooperation on the part of all our people.
[We are glad to be able to present the two following articles together for consideration in this fourth Sabbath program. We believe there are many, especially among our young people, who have felt like those mentioned in the first paragraph of Elder R. A. Underwood’s article. The answer to this “if” is very clearly stated by Elder Underwood. This, together with the good article from Dr. J. E. Froom, written when he was an active leader in the book work, ought to be sufficient to convince any doubting ones who may listen to this reading. Now, during the long summer days, is a very opportune time to put away the “if’s” and doubts, and enter this work. May the reading of these two articles be the means of leading a large number to do this.—N. Z. T.]

Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Service

(June 24, 1911)
Opening Song: No. 543, “Christ in Song.”
Prayer.
Second Song: No. 576, “Christ in Song” (old edition, No. 449).
First Reading: “Why We Should Read Our General Church Paper.”
Second Reading: “If I Knew,” and “The Effect of the Canvassing Work Upon Our Christian Experience.”
Social Meeting.
Monthly Report of Missionary Work Done.
Passing Report Blanks.
Taking Collection.
Consideration of the Matter of Encouraging and Assisting Members of the Church to Enter the Canvassing Work.
Closing Song: No. 474, “Christ in Song” (old edition, No. 431).

If I Knew

By R. A. Underwood

(Second Reading—Part 1)
I HAVE heard some say: “If I knew that I could succeed in selling books, or that God would bless me in selling them, I would enter the canvassing work. If I knew that some soul would be saved in the kingdom of God as a result of such labor, I would not hesitate to enter the field.”
Let me quote a few lines from a recent news-letter sent out by the Pacific Press. Brother F. E. Painter is quoted in this letter as saying:—
“Some of the workers who attended our institute at Nevada, Iowa, have made a very good beginning. I had a letter from one of them last week, and he had sold $103 worth of books his second week out; another sold $71 worth his first week out.”
In a report from Utah it is stated that the agents in that field sold an average of $1.54 worth of books for every hour’s work in the three previous weeks. In California and Nevada the agents sold $1.45 worth of books during the same time. In Southern California they had sold $1.79 worth of books for each hour’s work during three weeks. In Arizona the agents averaged, during this time, $2.55 for every hour of labor.
Now, on the basis of even the eight-hour plan of labor, and taking the smallest average of these reports, which is $1.45 an hour, the agent would sell $11.60 worth of books each day. This would certainly give him five dollars a day for his work, and that is a better average than a man usually gets in mechanical work, and certainly about three times as much as one would make working on a farm. You will notice others sold $1.79 worth of books each hour for the given period, and others as high as $2.55 worth on the average.
When the canvassing work is undertaken with the determination to work as faithfully and diligently as one must work to succeed in other business, there is no failure if the individual is at all adapted to the work; and there are very few who can not, with proper training, become splendid canvassers. Most of the agents who are selling Life and Health, Liberty, the Signs Monthly, and the Watchman are making from three dollars to ten dollars a day. A little girl only thirteen years old, told me some time ago that she had made five dollars a day clear, selling the Signs Monthly, and had made enough in three months to take her through one of our academies for a year, besides assisting other members of her father’s family. What a little girl can do, others can certainly do.
And then “if I knew” that as a result of faithful canvassing, I could meet some dear soul in the kingdom of God, who had been saved as a result of faithful service on my part, that would be a hundredfold, yea, a thousandfold more than all else besides. This is the privilege and assurance held out as an investment for many to enter this noble, God-appointed work. Who will say: “Here am I; help me and send me; I am ready to enter the work?”
R. A. UNDERWOOD.

The Effect of the Canvassing Work Upon Our Christian Experience

By J. E. Froom

(Second Reading—Part 2)
Those who can enter the canvassing work, but do not, are restrained by a fear of the financial prospects, or else they do not realize the importance of the third angel’s message. A candid examination of the case would show these very considerations to be reason for dropping other professions, and engaging in this department of the message. The entire history of our canvassing work shows that the faithful, energetic canvasser can support himself. Of the importance of this work, enough can be said to cause every true-hearted follower of Christ to review his own case, and see whether he is in the line of duty; and although the canvassing work is everywhere recognized as a grand educational factor, I wish to speak of what I regard as the most important consideration; namely, its effect upon our Christian experience. The more I think of it, the more I regard this calling as a blessing from the hand of our Heavenly Father.
The successful Christian canvasser will necessarily have a genuine experience that will develop his character, and better fit him to represent Christ in any position where he may afterward be placed.
Let us notice his experience from the beginning, and see if it is not only intensely practical, but one that brings him into a close relationship with Christ.
A young brother hears the call for laborers. He has a real interest in the work of God; but being associated with those who are absorbed in their preparation for worldly employment, he has heretofore supposed that the Lord’s work was mostly to be done by others, and has felt unworthy of the name “missionary;” but as he listens to the appeal for workers, and hears how the Lord works through and for those who go out in answer to duty’s call, he is impressed by the Holy Spirit that where his treasure is, there will his heart be also, and that bending all his energies to succeed in secular business is not conducive to a growth in Christian experience. So he talks with the church elder and the Sabbath-school superintendent, who are both pleased to see the young people interested in the progress of the cause, but are so anxious to have them in the school and meeting that they are loath to urge any of the young into the canvassing work. At home the parents are counseled with. They have always desired to see their children zealous in the Lord’s service; yet they dislike to say that it would not be best to wait a year longer before going out into the world. Thus our young friends are left to decide for themselves.
After viewing the question from many different standpoints, thinking how much help they can be to their parents, and how they would like to work more directly than ever before for some of their schoolmates, they go to their closet, and on their knees tell the Saviour that if he will make the path of duty plain before them, they will walk in it. Then as they think of the text in 2 Cor. 10: 12, they determine not to measure themselves by others, and they are able to launch out even while others continue to wait for the Lord of the harvest to repeat the call for laborers.
As they come from the place of prayer, what a flood of joy and peace fills their soul, which is not only yielded to Christ, but is eagerly saying, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” This victory will affect the entire life of the canvasser, and he knows that it was gained by yielding his will to Christ.
As the canvasser starts out, relying on the promises of God, success is sure to come. Many times a day his heart is filled with gratitude, as he sees evidences that Christ is assisting him in his work, and he rejoices that it is the Christian’s privilege not merely to reign with Jesus in heaven, but also to live with him on earth. O blessed privilege! He loves the Saviour as a friend, and so his love increases for those whom Christ died to save. As the canvasser enters a house, and tries to interest the people in the teachings of God’s Word, he feels that it is God’s will that he should succeed in interesting them; and he concentrates all his powers on the case in hand. How earnest he becomes as he realizes that the words of his mouth will either draw souls toward Christ or drive them from him! As he senses his responsibility, how it humbles him! He feels that he must have wisdom from above, that even in his intercourse with the neighbors, and in his business transactions, his influence may be to gather with Christ. Under such circumstances, success is the sure and legitimate result.
J. E. FROOM.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1911

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Connecticut, Norwich ........................ June 1-10 New York, Rome .............................. June 8-18 Massachusetts ............................... June 15-25 Maine ........................................ June 22 to July 2 Western New York, Dunkirk, .................. June 22 to July 2 Northern New England ........................ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Wyoming, Crawford, Neb. ................... June 8-18 Nebraska (local), Palmer ................... July 24-30 South Missouri, Springfield ................. Aug. 3-13 Colorado .................................... Aug. 17-27 Nebraska (local), Norfolk .................. Aug. 21-27 West Kansas ................................ Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 East Kansas ................................. Aug. 10-21 North Missouri, Hamilton ................... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 West Colorado ............................... Sept. 14-24 St. Louis Mission Field ..................... Sept. 6-13

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

Eastern Pennsylvania, Allentown ........... June 7-18 West Pennsylvania, Ford City ............... Aug. 10-20 Ohio ........................................ Aug. 17-27 Virginia, Richmond ........................ Aug. 24 to Sept. 2 Chesapeake, Dover, Del. .................... Sept. 14-24 New Jersey, Trenton ........................ Sept. 7-17 West Virginia .............................. Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Wisconsin, Portage ........................ June 8-18 North Michigan, Gladstone .................. June 19-25 Indiana, Indianapolis ...................... Aug. 3-13 Southern Illinois .......................... Aug. 10-20 West Michigan, Muskegon .................... Aug. 17-27 North Michigan, Traverse City .............. Aug. 25 to Sept. 3 East Michigan .............................. Sept. 7-17

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Minnesota, Hutchinson ..................... June 8-18 North Dakota, Harvey ....................... June 20-27 Iowa ........................................ Aug. 23 to Sept. 3

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western Oregon, Forest Grove .............. June 8-18 Montana, Bozeman ........................... June 15-25

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

South Carolina, Woodruff .................. July 20-30 North Carolina, High Point ................. Aug. 3-13 Georgia .................................... Aug. 10-20 Cumberland ................................ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Florida .................................... Sept. 21 to Oct. 2

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana, Baton Rouge .................... July 27 to Aug. 6 Alabama .................................... Aug. 3-13 Kentucky ................................... Aug. 17-27 Mississippi ................................ Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 Tennessee River ............................ Sept. 7-17

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas ...................................... Aug. 3-13 West Texas ................................. Aug. 10-20 New Mexico ................................ Aug. 17-27 Oklahoma .................................. Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Arkansas .................................. Sept. 7-17 South Texas ............................... Nov. 2-12

WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia (East), Vernon ........... June 7-11 Manitoba, Portage la Prairie, .............. June 22 to July 2 Saskatchewan (North), Nokomis .............. July 4-9 Alberta, Didsbury .......................... July 13-23 Saskatchewan (South), Pense ................. July 25-30

European Division

WEST GERMAN UNION CONFERENCE

German-Swiss .............................. June 21-25 Belgium .................................... July 19-23

GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE BIENNIAL COUNCIL

Friedensau, Germany ........................ July 4-16

EAST GERMAN UNION MEETINGS

Friedensau, Germany ........................ July 6-16, afternoons

LATIN UNION CONFERENCE

Roman-Swiss and Latin Union ................ July 18-23 France and Holland .......................... July 26-30 Barcelona ................................... Aug. 1-5

BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE

North England .............................. Aug. 3-8 Scotland .................................... Aug. 10-13 Ireland ..................................... Aug. 17-29 Wales ....................................... Aug. 24-27 South England ............................... Aug. 31 to Sept. 5

Business Notices

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him “known” to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—Best sanitary shortening. Five-gallon can, $4.50; two cans, $8.50; eight one-gallon cans, $7.75; one-half barrel (about 32 gallons), 76 cents a gallon. By freight from Louisville or New Orleans. Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure, healthful, odorless; keeps indefinitely; five-gallon can, $4.30; ten-gallon can, $8.45; bbl. (50 gallons), 75 cents a gallon; ½ bbl. (30 gallons), 76 cents a gallon. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
WANTED.—To correspond with a man who can manage a well-digging machine. Should be strong and mechanical. Would hire, or sell one-half interest. Machine works by small gas-engine. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.
MAKE a good living on a small piece of ground with a Royal Fruit and Vegetable Canning Machine. Prices, $8.50 up. Supply your home market. Full instructions, cans, labels, etc. Circulars free. Address Home Supply and Manufacturing Company, Chattanooga, Tenn.
NOTICE.—Will all those who have read the story, “Shiloh, the Man of Sorrows,” as published recently in the Signs, and who would be pleased to secure a copy, in case it is published in book form, kindly send their names and addresses to the author, Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle, 1215 Vermont Ave., Lansing, Mich.
NEW, inspiring Scripture Post-Cards, beautifully embossed, illustrated Hymns, Greetings, and Birthdays, assorted, post-paid, 10 for 10 cents; 100, 90 cents. Elegant Floral Bible Mottoes (12 x 16), samples, 6 cents; 12, 65 cents; 50, $2.25; 100, $3.75; all prepaid. Stamps refused. Waterbury Specialty Co., Brandon, Wis.
FOR SALE.—1,000,000 Beauties. Bible Mottoes, size 12 x 16. 475,000 sold last year. English, German, Spanish, Danish, and Swedish in stock, all of foreign designs. We manufacture our own mottoes. Father and Mother lead. For prices address Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa; or Incite Art Company, 212 Vandorn St., Jackson, Mich.
YOUR first chance to buy highest grade of deodorized Vegetable Cooking Oil direct from refinery, and save middleman’s profit. Pure, healthful, delicious. Bbl. (50 gallons), 55 cents a gallon; half bbl. (31 gallons), 57 cents a gallon; five-gallon can, $3.50; four one-gallon cans, $3.20. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
FOR SALE.—Good Southern farm; seventy acres; half in woods and pasture; balance in variety of crops in excellent condition and cultivation; good garden and fruit; good markets. New house; good barns; fine spring of soft water. Stock and implements for sale. Immediate sale desired, as I am called to connect with our publishing work. Address, for full particulars, J. B. Greenwood, Greensboro, N. C.

Opportunity to Work for Schooling

The Washington Sanitarium and the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary will be glad to employ several young women and a few young men this summer who desire to work for school credit. Mature young people preferred. No one should apply who has not finished the common school. Write at once to the president of the Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Teacher of Dressmaking Wanted

THE Washington Foreign Mission Seminary is in need of a dressmaker who is capable of conducting a dressmaking department, and of teaching a class the art of making healthful clothing. Must possess some executive, financial, and teaching ability, as well as consecration to the Lord's work. Address the president of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Northern California-Nevada Conference

By C. L. Taggart; Verah McPherson

NOTICE is hereby given that a special session of the Northern California-Nevada Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting in Stockton, June 1-11, for the purpose of considering the advisability of holding our annual conference session in connection with the camp-meeting, and such other business as may come before the conference. The first meeting will convene Monday, June 5, at 9 A. M. The constituents of this conference consist of the members of churches in this territory; each church is entitled to one delegate, and one for each additional twenty members.
C. L. TAGGART, President; VERAH McPHERSON, Secretary.

Our Educational Journal

By Editor

THE Summer Campaign number of Christian Education is now ready. It is filled from cover to cover, and on the covers, too, with matter specially prepared to aid in filling our schools next autumn, and to help make clear the reasons for conducting denominational schools, the need of greater diligence in educational activities, the responsibilities of parenthood, and the sacredness of the teacher's office.
This number should go into the hands of every Seventh-day Adventist in the United States this summer. Let us all make a serious study of the problems it deals with; for they are very fundamental to the progress of this message. Our schools hardly need to be urged to order liberally. But let all, teacher and student, officer and layman, send in as large orders as they can afford when they think of the importance of our educational work. Not only so, but let each one seek to obtain as many permanent subscriptions as possible before the summer closes.

Subscription Terms

Single copy, one year, 50 cents; in clubs of 5, one year, each, 35 cents.

Terms on This Issue

Single copies, or 1 to 4 copies, 10 cents each; 5 to 40 copies, one order, one address, 5 cents a copy; 50 or more copies, one order, 4 cents a copy.
Address Christian Education, Takoma Park, D. C.

Chinese Literature

By Editor

We have made new and better arrangements for the circulation of our Chinese tracts and pamphlets in America. We have asked the Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal., to act as our distributing agents; and all tract societies and individuals will find it more convenient to order from them, as they have a good stock of our literature on hand.
We have reduced the price on clubs of the Chinese Signs of the Times, and have allowed a discount to agents, in the hope that we may increase the circulation of this paper in America. The prices now stand as follows: Subscriptions, 50 cents a year. To all regular agents, we allow twenty per cent discount. Clubs of 5 to 25 copies, 3½ cents a copy; clubs of 25 or more copies, 3 cents a copy. Each month we shall place a supply of these papers with the Pacific Press, so that any one wishing them on short notice may order from that office.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MISSION PRESS.

Manitoba Conference

By F. L. Perry; A. H. Brigham

THE eighth annual session of the Manitoba Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, June 22 to July 2, 1911, for the purpose of electing the officers of the conference for the coming year, and transacting any other business that may come before the meeting. The first business meeting will be called at 9 A. M., Friday, June 23.
Delegates should be elected by the churches at once, and their names forwarded to the conference secretary. All who purchase railway tickets should secure a properly signed certificate showing that they have paid full fare to the place of the meeting. If one hundred of these certificates are secured, the holders will be entitled to free passage to their homes. This meeting ought to be the best camp-meeting ever held in the province. Let every one plan definitely to attend.
F. L. PERRY, President; A. H. BRIGHAM, Secretary.
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