Our Mistake by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1883

Our Mistake.

By Editor

We have to confess to having been in error in regard to the passing of the resolution changing the time of holding quarterly meetings. In the "multitude of business" we had the impression left on our mind that it was passed. And the same impression was on the minds of those connected with the Office in Oakland, and the notice was given accordingly. On examining the "Year Book" we find that the report of the committee was laid on the table and not taken up again. Considerable time was spent in discussing it, especially by those from the Mississippi Valley States.

But we hope to be gainers by the mistake in one point, on the Pacific Coast. The quarterly meetings will have been so long in the past at the time of our annual meetings here in April that we shall expect a larger attendance at that time. Where churches have a scattered membership we have found that they do not make strong efforts to attend unusual meetings if they come near together. We hope that none will excuse themselves from being here the fourth Tuesday in April.

And we take this opportunity of again recommending the "Year Book" to all our friends. It is a "ready reference" for the proceedings of our yearly meetings, and for the statistics of the Conferences and Associations. It should be in the house of every Seventh-day Adventist.