The Missionary by Barbara C. Stickney

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1880

The Missionary.

By Barbara C. Stickney

QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA T. AND M. SOCIETY.

No STATE quarterly meeting having been held for the quarter ending Oct. 1, we simply give the report of work as follows:—

In connection with this report we think it will be well to show the present financial standing of the districts with the State society, although this does not represent their exact condition, as some districts have quite an amount of our publications on hand, while others have but just renewed their subscription on their Signs club. District No. 1, has a credit of $63.91, and No. 7, $11.60; No. 2 is indebted to State society $468.53, but has over $200 worth of publications in the district; No. 3 is indebted $22.98; No. 4, $12.78; No. 5, $162.07; No. 6, $171.89; No. 8, $51.17; No. 9, $8.01.

The report is not as full as common this quarter owing to the fact that the time of the camp-meeting made it impossible for some of the more remote churches to hold their regular quarterly meetings. We are anxious to see an advance step taken in the matter of reporting. The members should each obtain one of the pass-books prepared expressly for them, and enter all the work they may do under "Memoranda of missionary work;" then at the end of the quarter it will be very easy to fill out the blank furnished them by the librarian.

It would be a source of great encouragement to have reports from all the churches, showing that the members are awake to the importance of this work. We hope that the Lord may not only "send forth laborers into the harvest," but that he may help those who remain at home to be faithful, for all have a part to perform in the work of God. BARBARA C. STICKNEY.