Words to T. and M. Workers.
By James White
1. We were too late last fall in plans for the campaign for 1877. 2. Then, as late as it was, not a tithe of you in all the States were ready to work. 3. But few of the States took hold of the added one-third, and were not in a condition to take packages of the Signs. 4. We are glad that most of the States are finally taking this matter of the added one-third into consideration. We urge that every Conference take hold of it in earnest at their annual camp-meeting. 5. We now commence arrangements for 1878. Eld. Haskell's statement that 25,000 copies of a pioneer paper should be used in 1878 is sober. But few of the States are doing any thing to speak of, and yet the circulation of the Signs is 7,000. Should all do as two or three States are doing, Bro. Haskell's number would be reached. 6. The first work is to establish S. B. according to figures adopted. Let every Conference and every church furnish their members with the tract on Systematic Benevolence. When that system is fully established, then adopt the one-third. 7. Packages for the Signs should be taken for six months. No Conference or church should run in debt, so as not to be ready for a grand campaign for 1878. 8. Preparations for that should be urged forward during the summer, so as to be ready to work in earnest in early autumn. 9. The first number of the pioneer sheet for 1878, will be issued in October, at some point east of Chicago. Ten thousand copies will be furnished for $1.50 a year, eighteen thousand for $1.25 a year, twenty-five thousand for $1.00 a year. 10. We are already laying our plans for the reading matter. It will be a glorious success if all get in good readiness, and then in season prosecute the work vigorously.