NEW ENGLAND TRACT QUARTERLY MEETING.
By S. N. Haskell
No doubt all our New England friends have seen the appointment and notice of the New England quarterly meeting, the third Sabbath and first-day in January. This will be a meeting of unusual interest to every tract worker in the Conference. It was about ten years ago that Eld. Canright was in New England, and found it the hardest field he ever labored in. After one year of the most untiring labor he left, with less than twenty-five keeping the Sabbath as the result of his year's effort. Seven years ago last November the tract society was organized. Not less than ten thousand dollars have been expended in placing books in libraries, scattering our publications, placing the VOICE OF TRUTH, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and HEALTH REFORMER in more than twenty thousand families. Over thirty thousand Health Annuals have been placed before the people, and yet no marked result was seen until within the last two years. The Judgment alone will reveal how much the spirit of sacrifice in the giving of means, and in labor put forth in the tract work, had to do with the most successful camp-meeting ever held by Seventh-day Adventists, so far as the attendance of those not in the truth is concerned, one year ago last summer. And our successful camp-meeting last season also cannot soon be forgotten. But the numbers who have actually embraced the Sabbath during the last six months, under the faithful labors of Eld. Canright, are truly wonderful. An interest has been awakened in so many places that five laborers could not fill the calls, and Eld. G. now reports that New England is the easiest field of labor that he has ever found. Probably there will be present at this quarterly meeting more than one hundred and fifty who have embraced the Sabbath the past season. Who among those that have had an interest in the tract work in this hard field, during the past seven years, will not be interested in this meeting? Not one. Let there be a general rally of the workers. These new friends will want to join the missionary army, and commence the field drill. Librarians should be appointed in Danvers, Newburyport, and other places where tract societies are formed, and a supply of our tracts should be left with each company. The assistant secretary will be at the meeting and present a summary of what has been done during the past quarter. Let there be a general rally of the friends of the cause in New England. God has commenced to fulfill his word to the East by sending men in the power of his Spirit, and in leading many to embrace the truth, thus showing what he is willing to do when we give our hearts to him. May God bless the quarterly meeting at Danvers, and encourage the hearts of all his people. S. N. HASKELL, Pres. N. E. T. and M. S.