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free for visiting, hiking, swimming, fishing. Then on the weekly
Sabbath and the two annual Sabbaths, there will be services
morning, afternoon, and evening, and Sabbath-school during the
morning of the weekly Sabbath. Our first year at Belknap we held
three services daily, but this proved to be too much. Just as one
can over-eat at the table, so we can wear ourselves out sitting
thru three services a day, trying to absorb, digest, and remember
more heavy spiritual strong meat than we can handle. We feel we
have found a well-balanced program, which gives time to think over,
and digest these spiritual meals at the morning and evening
services.
Again this year we will try to bring the moving picture
equipment, and show a number of interesting, educational pictures.
I know all the kiddies and young people will enjoy this. Also,
this year, we will learn and sing a number of our own new hymns
being composed for our own hymn book---the hymn-book of God's own
inspired words from the Psalms and poetic Books of the Bible, set
to music. We are making real progress with these beautiful hymns,
perhaps rather slow, but then one just doesn't compose such hymns
at the rate of several a day---it takes time. About 20 are now
ready for publication, and we hope to publish the first edition of
our new hymn book during the coming fall and winter, God willing.
You remember how well every one liked the two or three that were
sung for us last year. Well, I think you'll like many of the new
ones just as well or even better. If I am a judge of music, I
think they are very beautiful music. This year we will have the
music ready so the whole congregation can learn the hymns and sing
them, and I believe this will add a great deal to this Feast of
Tabernacles.
Again this year we will serve meals ourselves in the
dining room at cost. In fact it will cost you less than it does to
buy groceries at home, because some of the brethren are bringing
meat and vegetables which we will not need to charge for. I cannot
say definitely, until we arrive in Oregon and see what the food
will cost this year, what the price of meals will be. The first
two years we charged $1.00 per day per person, making no charge,
I believe, for the little kiddies. Last year we were forced to
raise that price. I hope we can keep it this year the same as
last, but if groceries are much higher we may have to raise it a
little. I cannot tell you at this writing what Mr. Bigelow, owner
of the hotel, will charge this year for rooms and cottages, but I
presume it will be the same very reasonable charge as last year,
unless a slight increase is necessary because of the increase in
price of everything. When it is considered that he makes no charge
for use of the large and beautiful lounge-room we use for service
and visiting, or the dining room and kitchen, and use of his
utensils, except that a portion of the charge of each room pays for
the use of all this and the beautiful wooded grounds, it should be
realized the charges are really very low.
If you occupy a cabin, BRING BEDDING---but if a hotel
room, DON'T bring bedding. The cabins are limited---don't count on
finding one vacant unless you reserve it ahead of time.
This year some of our new brethren from Pasadena and