OHIO

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1877

Gilboa.

According to appointment, I left home on the morning of May 4 to endeavor again to hold meetings among our people. Although far from being in good health, I ventured out hoping and praying that, if it be the Lord’s will, I may have strength to do a little at least, by way of building up the good cause of the Lord. Thus far the Lord has sustained.

Meetings with the Gilboa church are now in the past. They have been attended with the blessing of God. We baptized two on Sunday, and they were added to the church. The ordinances of the Lord’s house were celebrated, some taking a part for the first time. Systematic benevolence and T. and M. work were considered. This church have already paid their pledge for the present Conference year. Promptness in the discharge of duty in these important matters is a source of great encouragement, and will insure the blessing. Read Malachi. H. A. St. John.

Quarterly Report of Ohio T. and M. Society.

District	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	Total
Membership	21	21	21	79	62	29	244
No. Reports	21	12	30	40	42	9	156
Donors	21	10	41	35	69	41	213
Families Visited	1057	457	170	170	602	81	2393
New Members Written	32	49	71	71	74	16	313
New Members			81	81	25	13	287
New Subscribers	568	81		81	25	13	287
Periodicals Distributed	56	95	94	757	69	111	1171
Almanacs Distributed	916	800	201	199	722	160	4798
Pages Tracts & Pamphlets	11,100	3,576	3,576	3,840	8,653	5,083	35,828
Rec’d from Tracts	$37.40	$18.33	$18.71	$34.71	$46.85	$40.22	$196.22
By Donation	40	14	14	60	39	9	176
From Book Sales	57	10	10	10	24	65	176
Periodicals	86	90	90	34.86	42.35	65.42	242.69
From each District	45	38	113	109.16	79.93	85.62	552.84

FINANCIAL STANDING. Cash on hand at the commencement of the quarter: $51 Receipts of the quarter: $26 Expenses of the quarter: $77 Present indebtedness: $35

The above is a table of the labors of the Ohio T. and M. Society for the second quarter of the year, quarter commencing with December and closing March 1, 1877. No state quarterly meeting was held. H. A. St. John, Pres. M. E. Underwood, Sec.