p. 109 | OHIO QUARTERLY MEETINGS by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1879

OHIO QUARTERLY MEETINGS.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We remind our people that every church in this Conference should hold a quarterly meeting Oct. 4 and 5. Let nothing hinder it. No excuse can be allowed in this case. We expect the elders, clerks, treasurers, and librarians to be on hand to attend to their duties, whether others come or not. Go through with the business, few or many. Then report the absent ones.

Blanks will be sent to every officer in each church, to fill out and return on Monday, Oct. 6, to his district elder.

Clyde, Norwalk, New Haven, Troy, and Wakeman report to Eld. St. John; Cleveland, Bloomfield, Bedford, Solon, Peninsula, and Parkman, to Eld. Underwood; Bellville, Waterford, Corsica, Appleton, and Newark, to myself; New Antioch, Springfield, and Leesburg, to Eld. Gates; Van Wert, Mendon, Paulding, Uniopolis, and Dunkirk, to Eld. Rupert; Bowling Green, Liberty, Hamler, and Gilboa, to Eld. Guilford.

Immediately following this meeting, each of these districts should hold a district quarterly meeting, which the elder should attend. Here reports from all the churches in the district can be read, all matters of business attended to, instruction received, baptism administered, and a Sabbath-school convention held. A greater interest must be awakened in these district meetings; a larger attendance must be secured. Our brethren must awake to value them more. We recommend that a large Sabbath-school convention and a temperance meeting be held at these meetings the second Sabbath and Sunday in October.

D. M. CANRIGHT.