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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 6.

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WISCONSIN T. & M. SOCIETY.

By O. A. Olsen; E. R. Gillett

The quarterly meeting of the Wisconsin Tract and Missionary Society was held at Oakland, Jefferson Co. Wis., Jan. 21–23, 1876. The President, O. A. Olsen, in the chair. Prayer by Elds. Sanborn and Olsen. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. The report for the present quarter showed the following:—
No. of districts, 15; No. of reports, 13; No. of families visited, 550; No. of letters written, 160; No. of new subscribers for REVIEW, 20; INSTRUCTOR, 115; REFORMER, 80; SIGNS, 52; TIDENDE, 36; ADVENT HAROLD, 1; REVIEWS distributed, 600; INSTRUCTORS, 90; REFORMERS, 225; SIGNS, 85; almanacs, 610; pages of pamphlets loaned and given away, 96.000.
Rec’d on membership, $ 36.00 Donations, 172.00 Book sales, 62.50 Total, $270.50
Voted, that the brethren in La Cross County be permitted to unite with Dist. No. 15.
Adjourned until 3 o’clock, P. M.

SECOND SESSION.

Meeting assembled at the hour appointed. Prayer by Bro. Tenney.
On motion, $150.00 were voted for Camp-meeting purposes, to be raised by the several districts according to their financial standing.
Adjourned to call of Chair.

THIRD SESSION.

First-day, Jan. 23, 9 o’clock A. M.
Executive Committee on tent and camp-meeting fund reported as follows:—
Tent, rope, & freight, $342.32 Camp-meeting expenses, groceries, &c. 110.59 Total, 452.91 Rec’d from treasurer, 445.14 Due Committee, 7.77
Treasurer’s report read, which was as follows:—
Received, from July 1875 to Jan. 18, 1876, $246.93 Paid out, 142.00 Balance on hand, 104.93
The meeting was quite well attended, a good spirit manifested throughout, and much good done. Eight districts were represented by directors, or by leading brethren, and all went away resolved to engage anew in the work. Bro. Olsen spoke upon the necessity of united action, and urged that it was indispensably necessary that directors be fully alive to the work. In those districts where the director was fully aroused, a good report was returned; but where the director was faithless and unbelieving, little, or nothing, was done. The people will not rise higher than those that lead. How necessary, then, that those who have the oversight of this work should be men of energy and courage in the Lord.
Adjourned sine die.
O. A. OLSEN, Pres.
E. R. GILLETT, Sec.