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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1879

MICHIGAN T. AND M. SOCIETY REPORT.

By J. Fargo; Mrs. S. H. Lane

THE quarterly meeting of this society was held at Eaton Rapids, in connection with the camp-meeting, Aug. 1–6, 1879.

The first meeting, Friday, Aug. 1, was opened with prayer by Eld. Littlejohn. The president being absent, Eld. Canright occupied the chair.

By a comparison of the reports of the last two quarters, it was seen that in some respects the district reports were unreliable, as illustrated by the number of Signs taken in clubs. There were about as many taken this quarter as the previous one, but the report, as herewith given, shows only about one-half as many.

No. of District	Names of Directors	Members	Reports returned	Members added	Families visited	Letters written	Signs taken in clubs	New subscribers for all periodicals	Pages of pamphlets loaned	Pages of tracts given away	Periodicals distributed	Animals sold and given	Members’ donations	Donations to tract fund	Sales	Periodicals	Total
1	F. D. Snyder	63	24	3	3	12	45	2	172	5002	274	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	E. P. Giles	103	47	—	60	41	85	10	8729	12386	657	71	$37 08	$3 85	$16 86	—	$57 79
3	R. Sawyer	396	53	—	23	290	400	9	1641	9615	1919	98	82 90	60	1 00	—	84 50
4	Alex. Carpenter	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	E. H. Root	124	24	—	23	33	182	16	557	1555	767	6	20 78	—	67 35	—	88 13
6	F. Howe	70	60	1	61	59	76	12	4879	9825	1335	62	73 13	5 51	35 61	—	114 25
7	F. Squire	—	—	—	18	44	—	3	3790	10412	889	11	7 96	—	—	—	157 02
8	Wm. Ostrander	47	20	—	12	24	54	15	464	7024	617	63	19 13	1 50	14 15	—	34 87
9	Samuel Woodhull	88	49	7	19	56	148	8	1486	11758	1477	4	38 87	3 68	44 90	—	87 45
10	C. N. Stuttle	88	60	—	27	7	40	4	1647	11081	520	180	2 00	25	—	—	2 25
11	Peter Smalley	15	5	—	—	2	—	—	747	857	42	10	—	—	—	—	3 75
12	G. O. States	61	10	—	89	15	—	—	25006	2519	522	1	5 19	—	20 65	—	25 84
13	J. F. Carman	102	51	1	25	37	61	70	11850	21818	855	102	4 67	—	—	—	94 78
14	L. G. Moore	34	17	—	17	23	—	—	2301	4314	161	104	—	—	—	—	—
	Total	1181	420	12	377	643	1041	144	63269	108166	10035	712	$291 71	$15 48	$200 52	—	$750 63

(Churches that failed to report not given.)

W. C. White, in a few lively remarks, showed that the missionary work might be greatly advanced by canvassing, and hoped an earnest effort would be made during the next few months in this direction. After the meeting, several outfits were obtained, indicating considerable interest in this branch of the work.

SECOND MEETING, Monday morning, Aug. 4. Prayer by Eld. Jones. The president in the chair.

Considerable time was occupied in remarks by the directors respecting the work in their districts. The president remarked that the cause of the languishing condition of the T. and M. work in some parts of the State is owing to a lack of interest on the part of the workers. If success is not apparent, efforts should not cease; for we must do missionary work to condemn as well as to save.

Eld. Littlejohn related his experience in obtaining interested readers for the Signs. He suggested that in some cases the paper be introduced as by accident until an interest in reading it has been awakened. He had thus obtained several subscribers, and recommended that persons be induced to subscribe by paying ten cents per month, the church society becoming responsible for the subscription for a stated length of time.

It was recommended by W. C. White that club copies be retained for missionary purposes, and new copies ordered for subscribers. He further spoke of minds being molded by the Signs, from whom we never hear, notwithstanding we might get more responses if there was more prayerful thought by the writers. We do the work too mechanically. If no responses are received from those to whom the papers have been sent, he advised that their names be preserved and papers sent again after a few weeks.

As the subject of health and temperance had been quite thoroughly set before the people during this meeting, on motion of Eld. M. B. Miller the following resolution was adopted:—

Resolved, That we do hereby recognize the importance of the subjects of health and temperance, and that we recommend to all members of the State T. and M. society that they unite themselves with the State Health and Temperance Society as full members, and that we as members and as a society co-operate heartily in the carrying forward of the interests of the Health and Temperance Association.

The following resolution was offered by Dr. J. H. Kellogg:—

Resolved, That the directors of the several districts be requested to so group the several churches in their districts as to enable them to meet all the churches at stated times once during each quarter. Carried.

Moved, by W. C. White, that Jennie Thayer serve as an assistant secretary of this society. Carried.

Moved, by W. C. White, that the tract society employ the secretary constantly, and that we request the Conference to provide for the proper remuneration for such services.

Adjourned to call of Chair. J. FARGO, Pres.

MRS. S. H. LANE, Sec.