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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 24.

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QUARTERLY MEETINGS.

By Stephen N. Haskell

It is the practice of Seventh-day Adventists wherever there are organized companies to hold a church quarterly meeting on the first Sabbath in each quarter. The object is first, to have the names of each member read and a response from each, either in person or by letter; secondly, If there are alienations or differences they should here be settled; thirdly, The ordinances of the Lord's house should be attended to.
In connection with this quarterly meeting, either on the evening following, or on first-day, a business meeting should be held; also a tract and missionary quarterly meeting for each church. At this meeting the members should report the amount of work accomplished during the quarter; and such other business may be attended to as may necessarily come before the friends of the cause. Experiences should be related and a special effort made to infuse more of a missionary spirit in the heart of each member.
The district quarterly meeting should be held the second Sabbath and first-day in each quarter. At this meeting there should be a report of missionary labor from each company in the respective districts. These should be appointed at such places as will be for the best interests of the missionary work in the district, hence the director of each district is expected to attend this meeting. The president of the society will appoint the State quarterly meeting. The missionary work is increasing both in labor performed and members joining; the number of reports returned is increasing in proportion to the membership. This speaks well for our societies throughout the country.
California has always ranked among the first in the missionary department in the different phases of the work, and as other societies are increasing in different branches of this work, we look for this quarter's work to show the same increased interest here. There should be a spirit of enterprise on the part of all its officers especially in securing new recruits, and infusing more of a spirit of sacrificing labor. S. N. HASKELL.