Spread of the Truth by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 45.

Spread of the Truth.

By Editor

FROM a private letter from Elder Haskell, we extract the following, which we are certain will be read with deep interest by all:—

“You will probably see me in California at the time of the spring annual meetings. That is the present arrangement. Everything at the meetings passes off harmoniously. I think I can say it has been the best Conference I ever attended, and I have been present every year for thirteen or fourteen years.

“The report of the International Society is as wonderful in many respects as some of the moves which I have mentioned. The work done by that Society alone, in distributing publications, has been greater than that of all the other societies together. It has sent out about two tons of old periodicals, and placed publications on nearly 5,000 vessels. There is a standing demand for six barrels of periodicals, and besides, over twenty missions not of our faith from time to time use publications by the barrel. We have sent them in large quantities, not less than 100 pounds, to missions not of our faith in New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Savannah, New Orleans, and to many points in North Carolina, Florida, and Texas, also to Liverpool and Bristol, England, to South America, and the West Indies. This business has been done in South Lancaster, Mass. Certainly the Lord has gone before us.”