NOTICE by R. D. Benham

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1880

NOTICE.

By R. D. Benham

I WISH to call the attention of the Sabbath-school secretaries of the North Pacific Conference to the importance of promptness in reporting. There are about half of the schools in this Conference that have not reported at all, and some that did report this quarter, were altogether too deficient in detail. Every little company and every isolated family of Sabbath-keepers should have a Sabbath-school, if there are enough to elect a superintendent and secretary and have a class of two members. The superintendent can act as secretary and teacher too, if necessary.

My heart is in the Sabbath-school work, and I would gladly visit every school and every family where a school might be started, were it possible; but this I cannot well do, and would therefore ask you to awake to a greater degree of interest yourselves. Form little Sabbath-schools. Take the weekly Instructor. Obtain the lesson book for little ones. Then at the end of each quarter, carefully fill out the blank which I will send you if I know where to address you, and return the same to me. I will gladly furnish you with any supplies or instructions that you may need. I want the names and addresses of every Sabbath-school secretary in the Conference, and of as many lonely families as possible, as I wish to correspond with them. May the Lord inspire us with a greater degree of earnestness in his work that we may hear the "Well done" when the Master comes.

My P. O. address for the present is Salem, Marion Co., Oregon. R. D. BENHAM, State Sec.