Michigan Tract Society.
By E. I. Beebe
THE business of the year amounts to $18,300.98. The present worth of the society is $9,032.41; number of members, 7,022; reports, 1,106; letters written, 1,119; Bible readings given, 1,147; periodicals distributed, 56,729; pages of books and tracts distributed, 540,238. Contributions received, $3,242.83. Resolutions were adopted urging all to devote one Sabbath in each month to the consideration of the foreign mission work; to take up the studies of the Missionary Reading Circle; to subscribe for the Missionary Magazine; to adopt the plan of systematic giving of at least ten cents a week for the work of the Foreign Mission Board; and recommending that a corps of competent canvassers be placed in the Northern Peninsula the ensuing year. The officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: President, J. D. Gowell; Vice-President, Eugene Leland; Secretary and Treasurer, E. I. Beebe; Missionary Agent, S. E. Wright.