Annuals for Vermont by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1877

Annuals for Vermont.

By A. S. Hutchins

THE season for active service in circulating the Annuals for 1878 has come. I have waited to hear from the directors as to the number which the districts would respectively take. Last evening I heard from the last one to report.

The smallest district in the State, and financially the least able, voted to take the same number, 600, that they took last year, which certainly was fully its proportion of the five thousand which we took. To one other small district I ordered the same quantity taken last year, while other and larger districts cut their orders down one-half, or about that.

Believing our brethren in these districts would feel better satisfied with themselves and with the officers of the society to have a chance to do more in this direction than to dispose of so small a number as those ordered, and that it would be a mark against the T. and M. workers in Vermont to make our orders smaller than last year, I have ordered to my address for Dist. No. 2, twenty-two hundred and twenty-five Annuals, which is over fourteen hundred more than this district had last year, making for the whole State five thousand.

Now I am confident that Dists. Nos. 1, 3, and 4 will come to the relief of No. 2, and help dispose of these excellent pamphlets.

Certainly, in some respects the prospect brightens. Bro. R. S. Owen, now laboring in an entirely new field in Canada, writes that he wants three hundred, and calls for Bro. C. F. Worthen to come and help organize the T. and M. work there. One church which took forty Almanacs last year, is to take two hundred this year.

Dear brethren, let us gird on courage for the work. Our time to work is short. I am much pleased to hear that in one district the Annuals are already briskly selling. Probably by this time every district will be supplied with some to go to work on. Don’t lose any time.

A. S. HUTCHINS.