To the Ministers of the Michigan Conference.
In order that the Financial Committee be able to form some idea of the wants of the ministers of this Conference, and the amount necessary to be raised to meet their wants, it is expected that each minister, whether laboring within the limits of the Conference or outside of those limits, will make a quarterly report, from the first of October, 1862, to the Financial Committee of all receipts, stating who from, whether in money or otherwise, also of the amount of expenses. It is right that the Committee should know whether ministers sent from this State to other States are receiving a liberal support or not. These quarterly reports will show this, and enable the Committee to decide whether they should encourage missionaries to continue their labors in such fields. Where Systematic Benevolence is not carried out, and such missionaries are neglected, there is but little prospect that the cause can be built up by our most efficient ministers. James White,
J. N. Loughborough,
John Byington,
} Conference Committee.