TRACT SOCIETY INSTITUTE,
By B. L. Whitney
Our Institute thus far has been successful beyond the most sanguine expectations of those who have felt interested for its prosperity. The Institute was organized Monday, Jan. 27, sixty-five members being present at the first meeting. This number has increased until to-day we have seventy-two names on the roll. This number includes every director and district secretary in the Pennsylvania Tract Society, and the larger proportion of the librarians, while some of the officers and members of the New York society are also present. The Spirit of God seemed present at the State quarterly meeting held the Sabbath and first-day preceding the opening of the Institute, and the meeting was well calculated to prepare the minds of those who came to attend for the work before them. A remarkable degree of interest has thus far been manifested in all the exercises, and though four regular meetings have been held each day, besides the prayer and social meetings which have been regularly held, the interest does not in any degree abate. We feel that the special blessing of the Lord has been with us thus far, and trust that this will continue to be the case, and that this effort will prove a great blessing to the cause in this Conference. Wellsville, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1879.