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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 15.

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TO DIRECTORS OF TRACT SOCIETIES.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Dear Brethren: You have been placed by the Conference in very responsible places. The director of a district is the one who must give life and efficiency to the missionary work in his district. If you do not do this, it will not be done. Let me call your attention to some of the duties of the director. You should see that the church has a proper person for librarian. Then you should thoroughly instruct that librarian in all duties pertaining to that office,—how to keep the books and how to do the business. Then look over the books yourself. Look over every item of business, and see that it is done correctly. If you do not know how to keep the books, study them carefully until you do know.
Get the church together, talk up the T. and M. work, and urge every member to take part in it. Get up a club for the Signs. See that all sell the Annuals. There are two special duties you should be sure to see are done: 1. You should see that every Sabbath-keeping family has the REVIEW, Good Health, and the Instructor; 2. You should see that every Sabbath-keeper in the church or out of it pays S. B. Let each director, within the next three months, or sooner if possible, personally visit every Sabbath-keeper in his district. Talk with them. Lay before them the wants of the cause. See if they pay S. B. See if they engage in the tract work. See if they are living out the truth. See how you can encourage them in the good way. We recommend that you go around from house to house, get a few brethren together, and have a little evening prayer-meeting. Talk up the work. Then in particular see that you visit and look after the lonely and scattered ones and those who are in discouragement, who have fallen back, and even been turned out of the church. My brethren, you must not give up these dear souls. You must not leave them to perish alone.
We find that nearly one-third of all the Sabbath-keepers are lonely, scattered ones. Please sit down and make a written list of all the Sabbath-keepers that you can hear of in all your district, and then lay your plans to go and see them immediately. Take some good brethren with you, and stir them up in this work.
D. M. Canright.