GENERAL T. AND M. SOCIETY.
By S. N. Haskell
The object of this society is two-fold; first, to bring about more systematic action among all the tract societies, and second, to send reading matter to places outside the limits of any Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. During the past year it has sent to the various seaports more than one hundred and fifty packages of publications, besides furnishing reading matter to as many vessels sailing to all parts of the world. It has sent large packages of publications to Liberia, to the Diamond Fields of Africa, to Holland, the Baltic Sea, the isles of the Mediterranean, Greece, and the different parts of Europe, besides contributing largely to all parts of the South and other portions of this country. We leave the result of this distribution for the day of Judgment to reveal, but we know of scores who have embraced the truth through these efforts. We have made and are making arrangements with regular lines of passenger steamers running from Buffalo to Chicago, Boston to Liverpool, and from New York city to all points of the world visited by those steamers,69to put on board a set of our bound books, including the writings of Sister White, and a set of our periodicals, to be read by the passengers. This should be accomplished in 1879, but will cost not less than five thousand dollars, and there will be a continual drain on us to send publications to different parts of the world by mail. In this manner, with the prospect, six or seven thousand dollars can be judiciously used, and the work continually increasing. HOW SHALL THIS MONEY BE RAISED?
The Constitution of the General Tract Society is in three ways: 1. By life memberships at twenty dollars each; 2. By each tract society's giving one-tenth of the amount received for its own work during the year; and 3. By individual members. The names and addresses of all who have paid twenty dollars, and thus become life members (except those already receipted) appear in this number of the REVIEW. If any address is not correct, please notify Miss M. L. Huntley, Battle Creek, Mich., at once, so that it may be corrected before the certificates are sent. A certificate which would adorn any parlor when framed will soon be completed, and sent to those who become life members. We want at least one thousand to take shares in the enterprise during 1879. For a reward I refer you to the time when souls saved by the publications thus sent out, who will be represented as stars in your crown of rejoicing, will help from every nation under heaven.