Maine Tract and Missionary Society Quarterly Meeting Report by J. B. Goodrich; Amos Holt

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1875

Maine Tract and Missionary Society Quarterly Meeting Report

By J. B. Goodrich; Amos Holt

Maine.

QUARTERLY meeting of the Maine T. & M. Society met at Norridgewock, according to appointment, Dec. 20, 1874. President in the chair. Prayer was offered by Bro. Stratton. The report of the last quarter was read and accepted. Report of the present quarter shows the following results:—

No. of members, 175; reports returned, 28; families visited, 43; letters written, 40. Received for membership, $14.00. “ by donations, 6.45. “ “ book sales, 0.20. Total, $20.65.

No. of new subscribers for REVIEW, 8; Instructor, 4; Reformer, 1. Periodicals distributed, REVIEWS, 101; Instructors, 28; Reformers, 28; True Missionaries, 2. Tracts and pamphlets distributed by loaning and otherwise, 27,059 pages, value, $34.39. Furnished libraries, 752 pages, value, $2.00. Total, 29,811 pages, value, $36.39.

Remarks were made by the President on the importance of having a fund to help the worthy poor, widows, and orphans, and of filling our quota of names for The Voice of Truth and Health Reformer, which was responded to by there being about $200 pledged by those present.

Then he made some appropriate remarks on the importance of each member’s reporting, and of taking hold of missionary work with more zeal and earnestness. Adjourned sine die.

J. B. GOODRICH, Pres.

AMOS HOLT, Sec.