District No. 3, Vermont Tract and Missionary Society
By F. T. Wales
DIST. NO. 3, VT. T. & M. SOCIETY.
Dear Brethren and Sisters: We expect a general gathering at our soon-coming quarterly meeting. I need not repeat that I have confidence in this district, that the people will faithfully do their duty in laboring to keep up the interest of our quarterly T. & M. meetings. I trust we will labor with a love unbounded, and with a desire to glorify God and to save perishing souls. Judging from the interest you have manifested in this work of missionary labor during the past two quarters, and the zeal for the prosperity of the cause of God in your district that you have manifested, I think there need be but little anxiety manifested on the part of the director, but that you will be at your post, ready to carry out the plans that have been laid for the salvation of our fellow-men. Therefore, it will be expected that every member will make out a report of labor, commencing with the last time he reported, and forward to his church librarian in good season, and the librarians will be prompt to forward the same to the director, as there is no district secretary at present. Dear brethren, let there be an increased effort on the part of every one for the upbuilding and advancement of the cause of God in our midst. I trust the members of Dist. No. 3 will show themselves good soldiers in this glorious war, and that the result will be certain victory. God has manifested himself to us in love the past year, for which we will be thankful and give him praise; but we want an increase of earnestness and true devotion, and of a zeal which is according to knowledge, that we may enjoy more of his blessing and see others converted and saved in the kingdom of God.