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RESPONSE FROM ILLINOIS

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 1.

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RESPONSE FROM ILLINOIS.

By G. W. Colcord

As far as I have been enabled to learn the minds of our brethren and sisters on the point, I find them fully in favor of the plan offered by the General Conference Committee to the several State Conferences, to hold church and tract quarterly meetings at the same time. What a beautiful picture to be beheld by Heaven’s host, the loyal and devoted people of God, worshiping in concert! Therefore, I do hereby advise as follows:—
1. Sabbath morning, July 7, when the church has assembled, let the clerk read each name upon the church record, and proceed in each case as recommended by the General Conference Committee.
2. Let every church which has an ordained elder present celebrate the ordinances.
3. On the next day, or evening after the Sabbath, let all come together and pay their S. D. pledges, so far as due. If any fail to do this, let the treasurer, with a spirit of love, stir himself to duty.
4. Elect your delegate or delegates to the State Conference, to be held in connection with the camp-meeting, Aug. 23–28.
5. Let the church make out credentials for delegates, also fill out the “Church Report,” and “Financial Report and Pledge,” and put them into the hands of the church clerk, who shall immediately forward the same by mail to the Conference secretary, F. M. T. Simonson, Round Grove, Whiteside Co., Ill.
6. Encourage one another with reference to going to camp-meeting.
7. Each director should hold his next tract quarterly meeting on first-day, July 15.
8. Every district secretary in the State should make his or her report to the State secretary and put the same in the mail, Monday, July 16.
9. Our State secretary will report through the REVIEW the aggregate work performed this quarter in the State.
10. Our next State tract meeting will be held in connection with the State Conference.
11. Let all remember the financial obligations of their district; and let each sweeten his or her report with a liberal donation.
12. The Lord is blessing Illinois. Who, then, will prove unfaithful?
G. W. Colcord.