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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 29, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 5

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NEW YORK H. AND T. SOCIETY.

By Milton C. Wilcox; Isadore L. Green

A session of the New York Temperance Society was held at Adams Center, beginning Dec. 21, 1879. Minutes of the organization effected at Hornellsville, N. Y., were read and approved.
The State and Local Constitutions were being revised by the Association; hence the necessity of having a new Constitution drafted, also that there be a revision of the Constitution and By-laws for local clubs, for present, if not for future, use, was quite extensively discussed by Elds. Haskell and Whitney, and others.
The Chair having been empowered to appoint all necessary committees, the following were named: Committee for Drafting a Constitution and By-laws, Jacob Wilbur, Geo. D. Ballou, and J. E. Robinson; On Resolutions, M. H. Brown, C. C. Lewis, and E. W. Whitney.
Resolutions were unanimously passed, (1.) expressing sympathy with every effort to advance the interests of the temperance cause, and a determination to labor to secure the adoption of correct principles and habits; (2.) indorsing the steps taken by the H. and T. Association to arouse an interest upon this important subject, and pledging ourselves to second its efforts by organizing local clubs and bringing as many as possible under the influence of true temperance principles; (3.) urging all temperance workers to use their best endeavors to increase the circulation of Good Health, as it is an efficient auxiliary in this work, teaching the principles of the temperance reformation in a scientific and practical manner.
The new Constitution and By-laws were adopted, and the following-named persons were elected to fill the several offices created by the adoption of the Constitution: President, Milton C. Wilcox; Secretary, Isadore L. Green; Executive Committee, M. H. Brown, J. E. Robinson, and J. Q. Foy.
The present standing of the society is as follows: No. of local clubs, 4; No. of full members, 159; No. of pledge members, 120; initiation fees, $39.75; annual dues received, $3.29.
Meeting adjourned to call of Chair.
M. C. WILCOX, Pres.
ISADORE L. GREEN, Sec.