CAL. STATE QUARTERLY MEETING.
By M. C. Israel
The State quarterly meeting was not held, as it was at a time when the directors of the districts could not well be present, and the sickness of the Secretary made it impossible for her to attend to the business necessary to be done. The report for the last quarter does not show as great an amount of work done as that of the previous one. We find by looking over the mailing list of the Signs that the number taken in clubs has increased nearly three hundred during the last quarter, but the number of periodicals distributed as reported does not show a corresponding gain. We think there is a failure on the part of the members of the Society to report the labor performed. The number of the Signs taken in clubs would be, for a quarter, 17,186 papers, saying nothing of the clubs of the German paper taken, and other papers of foreign languages, besides the Signs, Review, Instructor, and Good Health taken by single subscriptions, many of which are used for missionary purposes. From the periodicals taken, at least 20,000 must have been distributed during the last quarter, besides the number in the report of ship work. There is a falling off by the report, of 25,000 pages of reading matter distributed, and considerable in donations to the tract fund. Only about one-half the members of the Society have reported. We regret very much that we cannot have a report from every member, of some labor performed in a cause that is of so much importance as that in which we profess to believe. If we continue to do as we have done shall we hear the "Well done, good and faithful servant," from the lips of the Master when he comes to reward the faithful? We are all members of a society organized for the purpose of extending the last message of warning and mercy to the world. Our names being on the list of membership will not alone answer. The record of what we have sacrificed and the labor performed will be the only evidence of our faith in, and love for, the cause of present truth, that will appear in the books from which we are to be judged. Shall we not then be active members from this time forward? Let each one get a Member's Pass Book of the librarian, in which to keep an account of labor performed; then look over the list on the missionary report blank and you will find under the headings something that you can do to fill it out; and then go to work, and with the blessing of God, our next report will be larger than that of any previous quarter, and we shall be blessed in trying to do our duty, and the cause of God will be advanced by souls being brought to the knowledge of his truth. M. C. ISRAEL, Vice Pres. T. and M. Society.