FOURTH MEETING, Nov. 18, 9 A. M.
The committee on tract distributors recommended that the matter of their use be left to the discretion of those having charge of the missionary work in the State or mission. From experiences related, it was evident that while in some places the distributor would do a good work, there are many places where reading matter placed in them would immediately be destroyed. It was recommended that persons having charge of such means for distributing reading matter should exercise great care in their use. The committee on collecting old periodicals made the following report: "Your committee appointed to devise means for gathering periodicals which are donated to the missions from the different States, and forwarding the same, would recommend that all periodicals of this kind be delivered to the State Secretaries, and when a sufficient amount for shipment (not less than one hundred pounds) has accumulated, the State Secretaries shall report the same to the Secretary of the International Society, and await said Secretary's order when and where to ship them. To save confusion, we further recommend that all orders from the different missions for papers shall be addressed to the Secretary of the International Society. We also recommend that each State Society pre-pay freight on shipments to the different missions. The matter of using printed letters was then introduced, and after a free discussion, the following resolution was adopted:— Resolved, That a printed letter is contrary to the spirit of our missionary work, and should be discouraged among our workers throughout the field. Several present who had used these letters testified to the unsatisfactory results of the same. Resolved, That we recommend that the SIGNS OF THE TIMES be sent to all those libraries which have received our books, and that this Society assist our poor State Societies by furnishing the SIGNS to them for this purpose at one dollar a year. This resolution was adopted; also a resolution explanatory of Art. V. of the Constitution. The financial report was read as follows:— Cash on hand last year, . . . . . $2,068.07
Received during the year, . . . . . 2,930.25—$4,998.32
Paid for bound books for libraries, . . . . . $2,031.53
“ “ other publications, . . . . . 1,012.98
“ “ periodicals, . . . . . 385.37
SIGNS, port-folios, printing, freight, etc., 325.28
Cash on hand, . . . . . 1,243.16—$4,998.32 The Committee on Nominations presented the following report, which was adopted as a whole:— President, Eld. S. N. Haskell; Vice-President, W. C. White; Secretary and Treasurer, M. L. Huntley; Assistant Secretaries, Nellie Sisley Starr, Jennie Thayer, Barbara Rice; Executive Committee, S. N. Haskell, Geo. I. Butler, O. A. Olsen, M. H. Brown, W. C. Sisley.