HAS it ever occured to our excellent ministerial brethren, when dealing with extraordinary freedom with the characters and talents of their fellow-preachers, that it would produce in their own minds a very unpleasant feeling, to know that their personal peculiarities elsewhere were just as faithfully and fearfully discussed? That rare editorial chief, Dr. Bond, used to say there was a marked difference between "skinning and being skinned." One may be an amusing process, but the other has little fun in it. It would be well some time in the large liberty of a free debate upon ministerial gifts and weaknesses, to put ourselves in the place of the brother that is so cheerfully scalped, and to ask ourselves the question: "How should you like to exchange places with him?" That measure we mete to others is very likely to be meted to us in turn. Indeed, the best authority justifies us in saying this.—Zion's Herald.
North Pacific T. and M. Society.
REPORT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING JAN. 31, 1879.
DISTRICTS
1
2
3
Total
No. of Members
42
23
48
113
" That Reported
6
6
40
52
" Families Visited
29
90
119
" Letters Written
5
3
75
83
" New Subscribers for Signs
2
9
11
" " " " " Instructor
28
28
" " " " " Review
2
2
" " " " " Reformer
2
2
" Periodicals Distributed
" " " " Signs
250
142
284
676
" " " " Review
27
1
20
48
" " " " Instructor
1
3
4
" " " " Reformer
4
1
4
9
" Pages Tracts and Pamphlets Dist
3,700
905
16,122
20,727
" Books and Pamphlets Loaned
829
430
4,929
6,188
" Annuals Distributed
MONEY RECEIVED
Received by Membership
$2.00
$2.00
" Donations
17.08
17.08
" Book Sales
1.20
5.60
4.85
11.65
" New Subscribers
10.50
10.50
" Widows and Orphans
Total
1.20
5.60
34.43
41.23
Our T. and M. report this quarter does not present a very good showing. They have failed not so much in work done as in reporting. We very much need reviving up in this conference on this important branch of the cause. Let the officers do their duty and the members will respond heartily.
I. D. VAN HORN, President.
Salem, Ogn., Jan. 23, 1879.