Duties of a Church Tract Society Librarian
1. It is his duty to act as business agent for the church in its missionary work. 2. He should keep the records of the missionary meetings, should assist the leader in planning the programs and in devising methods of work. 3. He should keep the accounts of the tract and missionary society, receive the collections for missionary work, order all supplies from the State secretary, distribute them to the members ordering them, and collect payment promptly for them. 4. He should conduct a steady correspondence with the State secretary, laying before him the plans on which his society is working, and the visible results of the work; should lay before his society plans which the State secretary may suggest to him, and do all he can to co-operate in the general lines of work which it may be desirable to carry forward. 5. He should not consider his duty done until he has every member doing active missionary work, either missionary correspondence, loaning of tracts, selling papers, tracts, or small books, doing Christian Help work by nursing the sick, feeding the hungry, and caring for the unfortunate, visiting the hospitals, or in other ways. Children may keep missionary fowls, eggs to be given to the sick or sold; may have flower gardens, to provide flowers for the hospital and sick; vegetable gardens, products to be sold. The librarian should study the church roll, and become acquainted with the qualifications of the members, so as to be able intelligently to assign each member some line of work which he can accomplish. The isolated ones should not be neglected, but should be instructed in some work which their circumstances will permit them to do.