Absent Members and Church Records
By Editor
SOME time ago the clerk of one of our churches announced by a notice printed in this paper that all absent members who did not report before a certain date would be dropped from the membership of the church. Other church clerks have since adopted the same method of dealing with absent members, and lately the number of such notices sent to this office has increased to an alarming extent. We who have been led to question seriously the propriety of this plan for revising the church records, and we urge our church officers to exhaust all other plans for reaching their non-resident members before adopting this plan of summary dismissal. We very much dislike to publish such notices, and hope that we shall not be asked to do so in the future.