HELPING HANDS by G. W. Colcord

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 16, 1876

HELPING HANDS.

By G. W. Colcord

QUESTIONS FOR ILLINOIS T. AND M. SOCIETY.

1. Have all “a mind to work,” and all a “helping hand” to lend? Will the director in Dist. No. —— fully discharge his duty? Will he, as his office title indicates, direct? Will the district secretary fully “come up to the work”? Will he see that all members have blanks, and use them in reporting? Will he promptly report his district’s next quarterly meeting? Will the members all work, record their work, then report?

2. Have all helping hands material with which to work? Districts, you all may be well supplied with tracts from the State library. Did you know it? If your supply is small, will you not, Bro. Director, immediately send to Bro. Geo. Foreman, Somonauk, De Kalb Co., Ill., for what you need? Do you need blank reports? Will you not ask me for them? Bro. Secretary, have all your co-workers “memorandum account books,” as the constitution requires? Have all the officers (at least) copies of the constitution? If not, my co-laborer, will you not ask for them?

3. Shall we not advance? As we are learning how to work, shall we not manifest an eagerness to labor as never before? Shall we not wisely distribute 6,000 Health Almanacs for 1877? Shall we not work for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES?

4. If we work, are we not glad to have it recorded, so as to “provoke” others “to love and good works”? Then if we fail to bestir ourselves, should it not be recorded? Will it not appear after this manner at the dread tribunal? Am I not in the right, in saying, I hope Sr. Simonson will report strictly for each and all?

G. W. COLCORD.