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T H E K I N G ' S B US I NE S S ideal, and Montrose was in even more than its usual beauty. But on the last Sunday of the Conference, August 4th, which is usually the great day of the 'Conference and when people flock from the country in automobiles and car riages for forty miles around, there was a tremendous downpour of rain morning, afternoon and night. In spite o f this,, however, though of course the attendance was not what it usually is in fair weather, there was a large attendance, everybody who went was amazed at the large number of people who managed to get out in such a :storm. The Conference expended this year in the improvement of its build ings and grounds and in the regular expenses of the Conference something like seven thousand dollars. Thirty-five hundred of this had been provided before the Conference began, the remainder was given in offerings and subscriptions before the Conference closed, and that without pressure. The last day of the conference has always been the time in which the major part of the offerings came in and when friends of the Conference saw the ter- Tific rain it was thought that we would come short in our offerings, but in point of fact, when the last offering, was counted Sunday night, it was found that the Conference had four hundred dol lars more than it asked for. This report was brought in just after the benedic tion had been pronounced and the Con ference reassembled long enough to sing, “ Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow.” Two of the notable features of the Conference were the meetings for chil dren conducted by Miss Alice M. Gam- lin of the Billy Sunday party, and the meetings for young men conducted by Miss Edith Torrey. Quite a number of the children and the young people were led to either definitely accept Christ as their Saviour, or being already Chris tians, to a life of full surrender. There were also conversions in the regular
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