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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 5, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 11.

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INDIANA T. AND M. SOCIETY.

By S. H. Lane; J. W. Covert

The Indiana Tract and Missionary Society held its sixth annual session in connection with the camp-meeting at Kokomo, Aug. 18, 1878. Opened at 11 A. M. with singing, and prayer by Eld. S. N. Haskell.
Minutes of the last meeting read and accepted. The report of labor for the past year was then read, as follows:
No. of families visited, 372 " letters written, 437 " new subscribers for periodicals, 308 " periodicals distributed, 6,402 " Annuals distributed, 1,766 Tracts and pamphlets dist., pp., 206,015 Received on memberships, $ 37 00 By donations, 182 63 From book sales, 54 81 New subscribers, 217 45 Total, $491 89
On motion of John Roberts, the president appointed the following committee to nominate officers for the ensuing year, and to re-district the State: W. W. Sharp, Wm. R. Carpenter, J. T. Richards.
Eld. S. H. Lane then made some remarks, setting forth the necessity of having a permanent T. and M. fund.
The committee brought in the following report: For President, Eld. S. H. Lane, Battle Creek, Mich.; Vice-president, J. M. Rees, Kokomo, Ind.; Secretary and Treasurer, E. A. Wilhelm, Bourbon, Marshall Co., Ind.
The Committee also recommended that the State be divided into eight districts. Carried. Dist. No. 1 remains unchanged. The district heretofore known as No. 5 is to be called Dist. No. 2. The one known as No. 2 is to be called No. 3, and to embrace the same churches it has done, except Thorntown, which is to be called Dist. No. 5. No. 3 is to be called Dist. No. 4. Dist. No. 4 is to be divided, and Patricksburg will be called Dist. No. 6; and Smithville, Dist. No. 7. The church of Friendship is to be Dist. No. 8.
The following directors were then elected: For Dist. No. 1, J. D. Shilling, Grovertown Stark Co.; No. 2, H. C. Winebrenner, Ligonier, Noble Co.; No. 3, Wm. Covert, New London, Howard Co.; No. 4, Isaac Zirkle, Mechanicsburg, Henry Co.; No. 5, Elisha Cox, Thorntown, Boone Co.; No. 6, Noah Carahoof, Patricksburg, Owen Co.; No. 7, Jacob Butcher, Bloomington, Monroe Co.; No. 8, John Roberts, Friendship, Ripley Co.
A vote was taken to raise a permanent T. and M. fund of $600.00, and in a few moments pledges were made to the amount of $327.00. Some paid down.
Adjourned. S. H. LANE, Pres. J. W. COVERT, Sec.