SPECIAL NOTICE by Geo. W. Spies

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

SPECIAL NOTICE

By Geo. W. Spies

To Nonresident Members of the S. D. A. Battle Creek Church.

The Battle Creek church is desirous of obtaining the present address of every nonresident member, and earnestly requests all such to send this information to the undersigned at as early a date as possible.

This church is under the supervision of the General Conference. There are upon its membership record about six thousand names, and it is no small matter to search through this mass of names, in order to keep up a revised directory and to remain in touch with its present membership. Hence it is very important that every member keep the body informed of his or her address. Any change in name, or address, should be promptly reported to the clerk. Owing to a failure on the part of many to attend to this important duty, or to that of regularly reporting to the church, the addresses of a majority of the five hundred or more nonresident members have been lost.

We frequently have matter of special interest and importance which we desire to send to our nonresident members, and therefore desire their addresses. If you hold your membership here, but are among these absent members, please send your name and address in full to the church clerk as soon as possible. Any information that will assist in finding the addresses of these unknown members will be thankfully received.

In view of the solemn time in which we are living, we esteem it a pleasure as well as a duty to correspond with our brethren, that we may help each other in this time of trouble.

Geo. W. Spies, S. D. A. Church Clerk, Care of Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.