TO T. AND M. WORKERS IN IOWA AND NEBRASKA.
By H. Nicola
For more than a year and a half our Society has owed the Publishing Association five or six hundred dollars for books and tracts. Most of these publications have been distributed, and doubtless they have been the means of bringing many to the truth. A large portion of them have been taken in western districts, where the country is new, and where our people generally are poor, and have been rendered more so by the grasshoppers. These western districts have been the best for missionary labor, and in them the most fruit is seen. As the cause is one everywhere, should we not be just as willing to help pay for publications that have been circulated in this western field as for those that have been used in our own districts? It is true, if our western districts could pay for the publications they have drawn, we should be about out of debt; but some of them owe so much that they cannot pay very soon, and it is not just that the Association should wait. But as this part of the country is blessed this year with bountiful crops of all kinds, we expect every one in these districts will do a little, at least, toward liquidating this debt. And while they may contribute their mite, will not our friends throughout the Conference take hold with them, and at once lift the debt? The Publishing Association needs the money, and will not our good Society see that it is paid? This matter was discussed at our last camp-meeting; and some of us who do not live in any of the districts that are in debt donated from $5 to $25 toward freeing our Society. But more must help lift the burden. Many of our friends who are better able, and perhaps just as willing to help, were not at the camp-meeting, and may not know that their assistance is needed. Dear friends, this appeal is to you. Will we pay our honest debts, and do it now? We can then ask and expect God’s blessing on our missionary work with more confidence. Let every man, woman, and child who loves this precious cause donate something for this purpose. Let your donation accompany your next report. Do not take a part of your one-third pledge; for this must be used to purchase publications for future use. If more should be donated than will be needed to pay our debt, it can be used for this purpose also. Dear friends, the field is widening. We shall need more publications for the coming winter campaign than we ever needed before. If all will lift together much more will be accomplished in the same length of time. May the Lord put it in the heart of every friend of this good cause in this Conference to help now when help is so much needed. H. NICOLA, Pres.