VIGILANT MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
This name is given to the society organized in many of our churches where several copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES are sent to one address, and are systematically distributed. This society is generally conducted by those sisters whose household duties confine them principally at home, many of whom have good address, and can find time to send a few papers to individuals and to correspond with them. The plan is this: They organize by selecting a president, secretary, and treasurer of their own number. They then meet regularly once a week, have first a season of prayer for God to guide them in all their deliberations, and in their work. Secondly, they read the letters they have received during the week. Thirdly, if any special case comes up, after consultation they decide who shall write to such a person. Fourthly, after dividing up their papers, they conclude their interview with another season of prayer. During the week they send their papers to persons whose addresses they have obtained from various sources. When they find an interested reader, tracts are sent with the Signs. They also obtain addresses from them, so there is no end to names of persons with whom to correspond. One sister who has been engaged in this branch of the work for years has, during the past season, managed one hundred copies of the Signs alone, besides filling the office of State Tract Society secretary, S. S. treasurer and collector of a church of ninety members, and she has also a class in the Sabbath-school. Usually they do not send more than three papers before writing. Thus they connect labor and prayer in their efforts. And none but those who have been thus employed can tell of the inspiration and joy there is to those engaged in the work when individuals become interested, embrace the truth, turn missionaries, and work for others. Individuals and small companies in the West and South who have never seen the face of a Sabbath-keeper save their own company, and who one year ago had never heard of the truth, are to-day rejoicing in the light. They embraced the truth in the manner above described. Thousands of copies of the Signs are thus sent out each week, and hundreds of copies of the Tidende and Harold each month; while there are a goodly number of such societies formed both in Europe and America to distribute LES SIGNES DES TEMPS. We can but hope that this work will go on until every company of Seventh-day Adventists, whether French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, or American, will co-operate in this manner. Only think of it! Thousands of new families weekly thus receiving the truths of the third angel's message in six different tongues! May God speed the day.