BATTLE CREEK V. M. SOCIETY.
By Jennie Thayer
At several of the camp-meetings held during the past year, attempts have been made by the T. and M. societies in the vicinity to obtain subscribers for our periodicals. These efforts have met with good success. For the encouragement of those societies which have not given any attention to this work, we give an account of the manner in which it was conducted at the Battle Creek camp-meeting of Oct. 2-14. As the V. M. society of this place is large, it has been divided into three departments; namely, a Review Office, Sanitarium, and College department; which hold separate meetings three weeks in the month, and a general meeting the fourth week. A number of members were appointed to act as canvassers, and the ground having been divided into sections, they visited all the tents early Sunday morning in order that the remainder of the day might be devoted to those who should come upon the ground. In this way ten young gentlemen and ladies of the College department obtained 440 subscribers for the various periodicals. The work performed by the entire society for the quarter ending Oct. 1, as reported by the 225 members, is as follows:— No. of new members, 21
No. of weekly reports, 304
No. of families visited, 35
No. of letters written, 140
No. of new subscribers for our periodicals, 10
No. of periodicals distributed, 2,783
No. of pages of tracts distributed, 28,952 This report shows that only one forty-fourth as many subscribers have been obtained by the whole society during the quarter from the reading matter which has been sent out, as this division obtained at the camp-meeting with much less expense. JENNIE THAYER, Sec. V. M. S., B. C. Mich.