To the S. B. Treasurers of the N. Y. and Pa. Conference.
By S. B. Whitney
Dear Brethren: As the time draws near for your first quarterly report for the present year, allow me to call your attention once more to your duty in this matter. I feel constrained to do this because of the sad neglect of some. An effort is being made to arrange our Conference books and records in the better form, and have our business done in a more thorough and workmanlike manner. It is a duty we owe to the cause of truth; but in order to complete success, the co-operation of all, connected with the business of the Conference is necessary, and nothing is more essential than that the quarterly reports should be made regularly and promptly. Your secretary is in a sense the auditor of your treasurer, but he cannot perform his duty in this respect, unless these reports are correctly made out and put into his possession. It is the duty of each church treasurer to see that all pledges are paid at the end of each quarter, and the money forwarded to the Conference treasurer; but when this is done, a report of the same should be sent immediately to the secretary, and this is the only sure way of avoiding or correcting mistakes arising from carelessness or unfaithfulness. And here let me say that all who pay S. B. will at once see the necessity of promptness in paying their dues in order that the treasurer be able to perform his duty faithfully. Now, shall we not have a prompt report from every church for the first quarter ending Oct. 31? If any have not blanks, please let us know. The P. O. address of the treasurer is Chas. E. Green, Sackett's Harbor, Jefferson Co., N. Y., and that of the secretary is S. B. Whitney, Pottersville, Warren Co., N. Y. I would advise every S. B. treasurer to copy these addresses, distinguishing them by their respective offices, and place them in their S. B. books; so that, when they want to use them, they will not have to depend upon their memory, or hunt up this paper to learn them, or what is worse, neglect their duty because they cannot find it. Pottersville, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1874.