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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 5, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 6

A TRACT SOCIETY IN ENGLAND.

By John Nevins Loughborough

ON the evening of Jan. 11, 1880, we organized a National Tract and Missionary Society for Great Britain. We have twenty-six members. Others who could not be at the meeting, will join. It was voted that I should act as President of the society, and that Mrs. A. M. Loughborough serve as Secretary and Treasurer. It was also voted to adopt the Constitution recommended by our General Conference for the government of such societies, making a practical application of its principles and regulations as fast as circumstances and the onward development of the cause here shall demand.

At present only two districts were designated, to be known as the Hampshire and Somerset districts; yet our field of labor comprehends the “United Kingdom of Great Britain,” and any of her dependencies which we may be able to reach with reading matter and by correspondence. For the present, it was decided that J. N. Loughborough should act as director of the Hampshire district, and Bro. Henry Veysey of the Somerset district. Bro. V. is to select a librarian. Sister J. L. Ings of the Southampton church was appointed librarian of the Hampshire district, and Bro. Wm. Ings was designated as superintendent of the work of placing reading matter upon ships.

This movement has given a new impetus to the work here. It was timely. The church was stirred up to act, and all are anxious to work; and if we would obey Paul’s injunction to Titus, “Set in order the things that are wanting,” it was time to form this missionary society; for it is what is wanted to give form and efficiency to this department of our work.

At no point of time since our mission was opened have we received so many favorable responses to Signs sent out, in the same length of time, as in the past few weeks. Many are reading with interest, and then “send the papers to friends in other parts.” Public libraries are calling for our bound volumes for their shelves, and the Signs and Good Health for their reading-room tables.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.