TEMPERANCE RALLY by Barbara C. Stickney

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1880

TEMPERANCE RALLY.

By Barbara C. Stickney

The temperance work in this State should receive more attention from all, especially those who were appointed to act as solicitors and agents. If these are not all supplied with pledge papers, certificates etc., they should send immediately for them.

The winter, the best time for holding such meetings is passing away, there are as yet but nine clubs formed. We have about thirty churches in this State, and clubs should be formed in all those places where we have a church at least.

When new clubs are formed reports should be sent in giving the names of those who belong, which pledge has been signed, and who have paid the initiation fee and become full members. If any have signed before organization please give the date and place, and state if they are full members. Officers of clubs should ascertain who have been benefitted by signing the pledge and what injurious habits have been overcome by each; so that in reporting all necessary information can be given.

Notice has been sent to the secretaries of clubs that a meeting should be held Jan. 4 for the annual election of officers, and after this date the meetings should be monthly. Those who join after this will be required to pay 35 cts. as the annual dues are to be paid at or after that time. Below is a notice given in No. 2. of The Health and Temperance Quarterly. We hope that this will be quite generally responded to, and that many of those who are not already subscribers for Good Health will become so before the close of the present month.

A Generous Offer.—The publishers of Good Health have generously offered to print the new temperance quarterly as a department in this journal and send it free of charge to all full members of the Association who are also subscribers to Good Health. Those members of the Association who are not now subscribers to the journal can easily become so, and when sending in their names if they will mention the fact that they hold certificates of membership in the Association the new department will be added to the copy of the journal sent to them.

We wish to see this matter taken hold of by our people and our State H. and T. Society second to none in point of interest and efficiency.

BARBARA C. STICKNEY.