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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 19.

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INDIANA TRACT SOCIETY.

By S. H. Lane; E. A. Wilhelm

The Indiana Tract and Missionary Society held its seventh annual session in connection with the camp-meeting at Rochester, Ind., Oct. 5, 1879. The meeting was opened with prayer by Eld. J. M. Rees. Minutes of the last quarterly meeting read and accepted.
Elds. S. H. Lane and James White made some remarks on the work of the tract society. J. M. Rees, Wm. Covert, and J. S. Shrock were appointed the nominating committee.
The report of labor for the last quarter was read, as follows: No. of members, 136; reports returned, 86; members added, 2; families visited, 78; letters written, 79; new subscribers for REVIEW, 82; Signs, 17; Good Health, 19; Instructor (weekly), 48; other periodicals, 13; pages of pamphlets loaned, 18,283; pages of tracts given away, 8,195; periodicals distributed, 1,289; Annuals sold and given away, 475; donations to tract fund and money received on memberships, $49.83; received from sales, $11.86; received on periodicals, $59.33; total, $121.02.
After some words of encouragement from Eld. James White and others, the consolidated report of the past year was read as follows:— No. of families visited, 334; letters written, 177; Signs in clubs, 204; new subscribers to REVIEW, 173; Signs, 40; Good Health, 50; Instructor (weekly), 147; other periodicals, 36; pages pamphlets loaned, 75,593; given away, 34,166; periodicals distributed, 22,113; Annuals sold and given away, 3,502; donations to tract fund and money received on memberships, $387.70; received from sales, $79.16; received on periodicals, $189.66; total, $678.09.
The committee on nominations reported as follows: For president, S. H. Lane; vice-president, J. D. Shilling; secretary and treasurer, S. S. Shrock. These persons were elected to their respective offices.
The propriety of redistricting the State was then considered. Dist. No. 5 was dropped, and the churches at Noblesville and Frankton were added to Dist. No. 4. Directors were then elected as follows: For Dist. No. 1, J. D. Shilling; Dist. No. 2, J. S. Shrock; Dist. No. 3, Wm. Covert; Dist. No. 4, Frank Zirkle; Dist. No. 5, Noah Carahoof.
Adjourned sine die.
S. H. LANE, Pres.
E. A. WILHELM, Sec.