Tract and Missionary Department by W. O. Duncan; Mary E. Miller

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1873

Tract and Missionary Department.

By W. O. Duncan; Mary E. Miller

Report of T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 4, Ill.

The Tract and Missionary Society of Dist. No. 4, of the Illinois Conference, met, according to appointment, at the Marsh schoolhouse. Prayer by Bro. S. N. Haskell.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted. The reports showed, subscribers obtained for Review, 11; Instructor, 2. Quite a distribution of reading matter had been made, but as the system of filling blank reports had not been fully understood, and therefore not adopted, nothing definite could be reported concerning it. At the close of this business meeting, remarks were made by Eld. S. N. Haskell on the nature and working of the tract and missionary society in other Conferences, whereupon it was considered important that certain steps be taken to bring about a system that had been successful in other Conferences. Eld. R. F. Andrews, J. R. Whitham, and G. W. Colcord, were appointed a committee to suggest recommendations to be adopted by the T. and M. Society of this State.

Adjourned to the call of the Chair.

SECOND SESSION.

Met at 1 P. M. Prayer by Bro. Whitham.

The committee reported as follows:—

1. Recommend the holding of State quarterly meetings for the tract and missionary society of this Conference.

2. Recommend the holding of a district quarterly meeting at least two weeks previous to the general quarterly meeting; and that the secretary of each district forward to the State Secretary a report of said district quarterly meeting, in season for a report at the general quarterly meeting.

3. We recommend the choosing of a person to act as secretary in the absence of our present secretary.

4. We recommend the raising of the sum of $500.00 as a T. and M. Fund, and to settle the delinquency on the periodicals which have been discontinued.

5. We recommend that all at this meeting be invited to donate by pledges, to be paid on or before Jan. 1, 1874.

Pledges were then called for. The brethren and sisters freely responded by pledging, including what was already paid, $377.65.

Mary E. Douglass was appointed to act as secretary in the absence of the present secretary.

Meeting adjourned.

W. O. DUNCAN, Director,

MARY E. MILLER, Dis. Sec.

Aledo, Ill., May 14, 1873.