APPEAL AND PLEDGE BLANKS.
By James White
We have sent out to the librarians of the tract and missionary societies in the several Conferences, blank pledge papers in connection with an appeal on the subject of education, in the form of a four-page tract. Those who receive them should enter upon their work set forth in the tract, of circulating the tracts to all the friends of education, and of canvassing for pledges. We have a quantity of both the blanks and the tracts on hand. Should they be wanted in any part of the field, they will be forwarded free of charge to those who may order them. We would here call special notice to the blanks. It was discovered, after they were printed, that no place is especially assigned in these pledges for the post-office addresses of the persons who may give their names in connection with the sums they pledge themselves to loan and donate. We will here suggest,— Let the name and amount occupy one line, and the address be plainly written in the line following the name. The solicitor should give his name and full address on the back of the pledge blank. There should be no delay in the work of circulating the pledges. Neither should there be a want of liberality on the part of the friends of education. The special course in connection with the Biblical Institute, covering the time of the General Conference, will be an important one. It should be largely attended by our young preachers. And more means will probably be needed during the remaining months of 1879, than during the year 1880. Let us act promptly and liberally. J. W.