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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, April 15, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 16

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BATTLE CREEK MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

By Jennie Thayer

THIS society has, during the past quarter, made a specialty of the home missionary work, and, as the result, quite an interest has been awakened in the vicinity to investigate our views. Several have subscribed for our periodicals, and some have already embraced the truth. The members who have engaged in the work have realized the divine blessing resting upon them in an unusual degree while in the performance of this duty, and are encouraged to still continue.
The quarterly meeting, held on the evening of April 7, was well attended, and it was the general testimony that the interest is on the increase.
The society voted to change the two hundred copies of the eight-page Signs which it has been taking to the twelve-page edition; and, to meet the increasing demand for papers, to add three hundred to the number, making in all five hundred copies of the twelve-page edition for weekly distribution.
Thirty minutes were spent in giving instruction relative to the use of the pass-book, and on convenient forms for keeping the memoranda, in order to report more readily at the close of the quarter.
The following is the summary of quarterly reports collected:—
No. of reports, 139; No. of missionary visits, 1,186; No. of letters written, 896; pages of tracts loaned, 87,926; pages of tracts given away, 34,102; pages of tracts sold, 924; No. of periodicals distributed, 8,832; No. of Annuals sold, 26; No. of Annuals given away, 2,135; No. of subscribers obtained, 76; No. of subscribers on trial, 31.

FINANCIAL REPORT.

Received on book-sales, etc., $12.96
“ “ membership, 39.00
“ “ donations, 291.80
Total. $343.76
Eld. Smith exhorted those present to labor with greater zeal during the coming quarter than they had done in the past, and the members dispersed feeling that this is indeed a great and glorious work.
JENNIE THAYER, Sec.