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Title: Annual report
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: (Ocean Grove, N.J.) : Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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the terms upon which that cost shall be met. Our Lakes.—It is with pleasure that I am able to state thatmeasures are already being taken to sewer the district above WesleyLake, which will do much toward its purification. The matter offilling that part of it, which is artificial, or whatever method maybe best adapted to secure the end proposed, has been referred to acompetent committee jointly with Mr. Bradley, and as soon as theweather will permit the work will be begun. Our contracts for religious service have not heretofore beenmade by the Association or its executive committee. It is sug-gested that hereafter all such contracts secure the sanction of theexecutive committee before becoming operative and binding. A critical period is upon us now, arising from the necessarytransfer of powers heretofore delegated to the president. Hisjudgement was so well rendered that the business of a devotionalcommittee was largely^left to his discretion. It seems fitting now 76 OCEAN GROVE, N. J.
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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 77 that such powers should return to the Association, and that someplan be devised for their operation. It has been largely suggested that this period of our history isan appropriate one for the examination and revision of all ourmethods of administration. The present system of carrying on ourbusiness through numerous standing committees, involving theentire membership, whose conclusions must be thoroughly reinves-tigated and passed upon by the executive committee before theyare valid, is cumbersome, expensive and less effective than whenbrethren, who may be temporarily or regularly resident in theGrove, are affiliated directly with the executive committee by specialappointment. Some committees ought to be standing and perma-nent, with special powers for their work, but the most of themcould be of larger efficiency on the plan outlined above. Especially is this true of the Emergency Committee where afew members at the thought of the moment are empowered to

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