Tract Society Institute for the Pennsylvania Conference by Pennsylvania Conference Committee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1879

Tract Society Institute for the Pennsylvania Conference.

By Pennsylvania Conference Committee

AFTER consultation with leading brethren in the Conference, we have decided to appoint a meeting for all tract society, church, and Sabbath-school officers, and for such other of our brethren and sisters as can attend. The special object of the Institute will be to give instruction in all branches of business connected with the various departments of the cause among us. This meeting will be held immediately following the State quarterly meeting at Wellsville, and should continue for two weeks.

We trust the brethren throughout the Conference will see the importance of this move, and will take hold earnestly to carry out the plan and make the meeting a success. Our Conference is just organized, and it is of the greatest importance that the business connected with the cause should be properly and correctly done.

We believe the officers in the various departments of the work are willing to do their duty when fully understood; but all need instruction, and this is the special object of this meeting. Every director, district secretary, and librarian of the tract society, every church clerk and S. S. treasurer, every Sabbath-school superintendent and secretary, and such other of our brethren and sisters as can do so, should attend this meeting, and thus have the benefit of the experience of others to help them in this work.

Especially is this the case with those officers mentioned, and if they are not able to meet the expense, the churches to which they belong should assist them. It is also proposed to organize a class in vocal music for the benefit of those who wish instruction in this direction, in connection with the other exercises of this Institute.

Further particulars will be given in due time in reference to the accommodation of those who wish to attend. Brethren, shall we not take hold of this matter in earnest and labor to have the work of the Lord in this Conference done decently and in order? Let all our churches see to it that the proper persons from among them attend, and may the blessing of God rest upon this effort to advance the cause in our midst.

PENNSYLVANIA CONF. COM.