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QUARTERLY REPORT OF N. E. T. & M. SOCIETY

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

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QUARTERLY REPORT OF N. E. T. & M. SOCIETY.

By Stephen N. Haskell; Maria L. Huntley

The New England Tract and Missionary Society met at New Ipswich, N. H., March 5, 1876. Meeting opened with prayer by Eld. Haskell. The report of the last meeting was read and accepted, after which a report of the labor performed during the last quarter was read, which was as follows:
Subscribers obtained for periodicals, 265; periodicals distributed, 1902; publications distributed, pages, 360,111; No. of families visited, 473; letters written, 444. Of this number, 288 have been written by the local Vigilant Missionary Society of South Lancaster; also one hundred and thirteen have been received by this Society.
Money received by the Tract Society, and pledged during the past quarter amounts to about $2,000; paid for publications, periodicals, etc., $1,349.96. That this report comes far short of showing the amount of labor performed, there is no doubt. There have been ten thousand almanacs sent to the directors and others in this Conference, and but few of these are on hand. Some are out, and have ordered more, but the reports show that but one-half of this number has been distributed. It is so with our missionary labor in other respects.
The subject of sustaining the SIGNS OF THE TIMES was introduced, and it was voted to raise the sum of $1500.00 more for this purpose. Three-fourths of this amount was pledged at the meeting, and about four hundred of it paid. Important matters connected with the Society were brought before the meeting, and the time was well improved with stirring remarks relative to the progress of the cause, and the results of tract and missionary labor. The remarks of Bro. Comings especially evinced a deep interest in the work, which was also manifested in a practical manner.
The New England Tract Society has been operating in Washington, D. C., as some of its members reside there. Some of the results of this labor have been noticed in the REVIEW. Thirteen have embraced the truth in one locality who meet regularly every Sabbath, and others are interested. The reports showed that the Y. M. C. A. Library had been furnished with three of our best bound books, also that the “United States in Prophecy” had been sent to several members of Congress, speaker Kerr, and ex-speaker Blain, among the number.
The reading of The Missionary Worker occupied a share of the time. Some items of interest were omitted in consequence of the press of other matters.
The brethren returned to their homes much encouraged, and with a stronger determination to engage in this work than ever before. We feel assured that, with the blessing of God, more than one thousand interested readers will be found for the SIGNS, and that one thousand paying subscribers for the REVIEW will be obtained by the use of the “Household Manual” during the next three months in this Conference.
S. N. HASKELL, Pres.
MARIA L. HUNTLEY, Sec.