TO MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE VIEW CHURCH.
By M. I. Reeder
LAST November we placed a notice in the REVIEW asking all absent members to write us, as there were so many whose addresses we had no means of knowing. This brought comparatively few responses. We have spent much time and many stamps in writing letters, also with comparatively small results. Some, however, have written letters expressive of gratitude, but with this censure, “Yours is the first letter I have received from the College View church in all the years that I have been gone.” They little dream that the same letter we sent cost us several hours of valuable time in finding an address, perhaps was returned to us once or twice, and sent out again and again. The College View church is stationary—its address always the same. A letter addressed to the Clerk or to the Elder of the College View Church, College View, Neb., will reach us, no matter who the clerk or the elder may be; and one half-hour thus spent each quarter by our absent members would keep the channel of communication open, and we could always reach them with our letters of encouragement. We have postponed our quarterly business meeting until July 28, hoping all members who see this notice will promptly reply. A quarterly report from absent members is essential to good and regular standing in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The sanitarium and college give to our membership a transient nature that is hard to control unless every one is prompt. We feel that we ourselves have been very remiss in this matter, and we earnestly ask you to assist us in making our books a true record of our membership.