IOWA T. AND M. SOCIETY by George I. Butler; Lizzie Hornby

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

IOWA T. AND M. SOCIETY.

By George I. Butler; Lizzie Hornby

The State quarterly meeting of this society was held at State Center, Jan. 25, 1880, at 2 o’clock P. M. Opening prayer by the President. The Vice-president and seven directors were present. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved.

Report of labor for the quarter just closed was then read, as follows:—

Districts	No. Members	No. Reports Returned	No. Members Added	No. Families Visited	No. Letters Written	No. Signs taken in Clubs	Subscribers obtained for Periodicals	Pages of Tracts and Pamphlets distributed	Periodicals Distributed	Annuals sold and given away	Cash rec’d on Tract Fund and Periodicals
1	50	....	....	....	....	....	2				$9 01
2	40	27	4	24	14	22	8	5402	510	93	45 66
3	114	41	1	21	25	22	24	9025	520	330	86 22
4	76	23	7	43	29	31	8	4491	368	133	41 54
5	70	28	....	258	18	36	87	33860	361	109	53 96
6	67	28	7	50	75	75	2	17480	747	124	29 96
7	29	16	....	19	23	10	....	13901	104	49	18 15
8	73	20	1	126	37	27	26	11124	292	87	45 20
9	45	10	1	6	5	....	26	8315	77	17	24 05
10	103	70	1	181	167	133	23	36565	1398	271	47 76
11	49	20	1	10	9	42	6	4814	438	118	58 06
12	4	3	....	5	2	5	3	528	39	....	5 50
13	4	2	2	....	5	5	3	1000	....	55	16 05
*¹	....	....	....	....	....	30	....	....	....	....	91 60
Total	721	288	25	743	409	439	191	146505	4854	1386	$672 72

NOTE.—Of the money received, $178.24 was membership fees and donations; $158.52, on sales, and $335.96, on periodicals. Received on other funds, $56.25. Total receipts, $1,228.97. The local societies at Oskaloosa, West Union, Waukon, and Lansing failed to report.

Elds. Butler, Farnsworth, and Morrison made some interesting remarks on the various branches of our work, and offered some suggestions which were afterward acted upon by the Board of Directors, and which, if carried out, will make our society more efficient in the future.

Adjourned to call of Chair.

The directors held three meetings; the following is a summary of the business transacted:—

Moved, That the Secretary be authorized to write a circular letter to the librarians and scattered members throughout the State, requesting them to do their business through the Secretary of the district in which they live, instead of through the State Secretary, as many are now doing.—Carried.

The subject of our ministers’ selling publications for the benefit of the society was then presented; the society to supply them with publications, pay all necessary expenses on the same, and receive all profits arising from sales. Most of the ministers present offered to do this, and on motion their offer was accepted by the Board.

Voted, That a Benevolent Fund of $500 or more be raised, to be used in assisting the worthy poor by supplying them with our periodicals and otherwise assisting them as the Board of Directors may decide.

SECOND MEETING, Jan. 26, 3 o’clock P. M.—Prayer by Eld. Butler. Pledges were taken for the Benevolent Fund, $327 being pledged to this object, and $107 paid.

Appropriate remarks on reporting were made by Eld. Butler, contrasting the number of members belonging to the society with the few reports returned. Yet there was an improvement in this respect over the previous quarter, when we consider the almost impassable condition of the roads, which prevented the holding of church quarterly meetings in many places.

GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. LIZZIE HORNBY, Sec.