Quarterly Meetings and Reports.
By A. S. Hutchins
Owing to the heavy fall of snow followed by a severe blow the first day of January, probably not one of our churches held their quarterly meeting on the first Sabbath and first-day of last month. I could not reach the place of my appointment. In one week from that time, the traveling also was bad. The attendance at the general quarterly meeting was small; but with what little business was done, the business of the S. S. Association, and seven sermons which were preached, the time was well filled up. The regular meetings for the present quarter have been much broken up, and probably reports of labor are considerably smaller than they would have been had the meetings been held, and fully attended. The present prospect threatens us with almost impassable roads the first of April; however, this may not be so. The meetings should be held if possible, and the brethren should be sure to attend them if they can. Don't let these meetings pass as though it were a matter of small moment whether or not you have an interest in them. Your presence with a cheering testimony, and a good full report of labor, and hands and heart open to help the cause, will be taken as the most satisfactory evidence of your abiding and increasing interest in the work. The scattered ones who cannot attend the meetings on the first Sabbath in April, should forward their reports to their district secretary as soon as the first day of April, and all reports should be in his hands before the second Sabbath. Please let us be on time.
A. S. Hutchins.
Vt., Feb. 24, 1879.