STATE QUARTERLY MEETING.
By M. C. Israel
THE meeting for this quarter will be omitted; it being a busy time of the year, it will not be practicable for the directors of the different districts to be present. Sr. Stickney, the Secretary of the State T. and M. Society, is just recovering from a malarial fever, and would not be able to attend to the business connected with a meeting. It is requested that the reports from each of the districts be sent in, that a summary may be published in the SIGNS, at an early date. There are many encouraging features in our missionary work, and especially in that connected with the ships; and we would say to those who have made pledges to the ship and State T. and M. Reserve fund, and to any who can help in this direction, that their pledges and donations will now be very acceptable. Nearly every ship and steamer going from the port of San Francisco is visited by our ship missionary (Bro. Palmer), who converses with, and furnishes reading matter to, those who sail on them. This requires quite an outlay of means, and especially at this time of the year when the ships are coming to carry away the grain products of our State. The money invested in this enterprise will without doubt bring a grand return in the kingdom of Heaven, when those who sow and those who reap shall enter upon their reward. M. C. ISRAEL,
Vice-President T. & M. Society.