INCORRECT REPORTS by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1879

INCORRECT REPORTS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

I HAVE in my hands reports from every church in Ohio, made at the last quarterly meeting. One-fourth of them are not correct. I have just visited these churches, and hence I know that the membership is not given correctly; the additions and losses are not stated; and many of the question blanks on the reports are not filled out at all. Dear brethren, these things should not be so. These reports will be sent back to the officers, to be filled out correctly. At the coming State Conference we want reports from all the churches, but if they are not made out better than these, they will be utterly unreliable. We say to the clerks, treasurers, and librarians, Take time to do your work faithfully, and see that your reports are reliable.

D. M. CANRIGHT.