p. 184 | The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 23 (December 4, 1879)

NEW YORK T. AND M. SOCIETY

Appointments.

“And, as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” Matt. 10: 7.

Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Dec. 6. G. I. Butler.

No providence preventing, I will meet with the friends near Mason City, Macon Co., Mo., Dec. 13, 14, and remain as long as the interest may demand. J. G. Wood.

Will meet with the church at Maple Grove, Mich., Sabbath, Dec. 6. Cannot the brethren from Assyria and Baltimore be present? L. G. Moore, Director.

Monthly meeting for the churches of Oakland, Little Prairie, and Johnstown, will be held at Hebron, Jefferson Co., Wis., Dec. 13. Thos. Bickle.

NEW YORK T. AND M. SOCIETY.

The next annual meeting of the New York Tract and Missionary Society will be held at Adams Center, Jeff. Co., N. Y., Dec. 20, 21, 1879. We request a full attendance of all officers of the society and all persons especially interested in the tract and missionary work, as it is proposed to hold immediately following this a Tract Society Institute to continue two weeks.

It is expected that every director and district secretary, and as far as possible every librarian, will attend this Institute. We have secured the assistance of Bro. Haskell, and every effort will be made to make our meeting and Institute a success.

No charge will be made for board. Those who desire to assist in bearing the burden of the meeting can bring such provisions as they choose. The friends should bring some bedding, and bed-ticks where convenient.

Reduction of fare has been secured on the R. W. & Og. R. R. All will pay full fare to the meeting, and one cent a mile on returning. B. L. Whitney, Pres.

COLORADO

By James White

We have made several tours in Colorado for health, have preached some in that new State, and know something of the state of the cause there. We love the mountains and pure air of Colorado, and Mrs. W. and the writer design to be on the ground in early spring, and spend some time there next summer.

Colorado is a promising field of labor, and through the faithful labors of Elder Corliss the young cause stands well. There are no reasons why our brethren in Colorado should suffer discouragements to come upon them, or slacken their hands in paying their tithe. We suggest, that for safe keeping of their funds, and that they may be ready when Colorado shall be blessed with a laborer, or laborers, that when twenty-five or fifty dollars be collected, it be forwarded to REVIEW AND HERALD; Battle Creek, Mich., to be used by the General Conference till needed. That our brethren may know how Bro. Corliss is regarded by the General Conference, we give here a resolution unanimously adopted by the General Conference now in session:—

“Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with Elder J. O. Corliss in his sickness, which made it necessary for him to leave the encouraging field of labor in Colorado, and pledge our brotherly care, and our prayers for his recovery, that he may return to his field of labor in that State at the opening of next tent season.” J. W.

HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE ANNUAL.

By Editor

Good news comes up from the counting room, that clerk, Bro. Edwards, is very busy mailing the Health and Temperance Annual for 1880. Only one month more, and this blessed Annual will become a practical matter. One month more to finish the circulation of the 300,000 copies. Circulate it? Why?

Because it is just what the people need, and
Because that in it are year-long advertisements of our institutions and our work, especially of the Sanitarium, to be posted right by the fireside, to be referred to on each secular day in a whole year.

Circulate it? Certainly. Let 300,000 copies of this Annual be placed in as many homes before the comic and drug almanacs get the ground. Circulate it! Circulate it! Prices by mail, post-paid:—

100 copies to one address, $2.15

50 “ “ “ “ 1.10

25 “ “ “ “ .60

10 “ “ “ “ .25

5 “ “ “ “ .15

3 “ “ “ “ .10

single copy .05

THE CONFERENCE.

The eighteenth annual session of the General Conference closed Dec. 1, at 11 A. M. Eighteen meetings in all were held, and a large amount of business was transacted. Harmony of feeling and unanimity of action prevailed throughout. The remaining records of the proceedings will appear next week.

The Institute closed Wednesday, Dec. 3. The reports of the General T. and M. Society, S. S. Association, and H. and T. Association, will, we expect, be furnished in due time, by the secretaries of those organizations.

This occasion will be looked back upon with a good degree of satisfaction. The expressions we have most frequently heard from the brethren, have been those of thankfulness for this opportunity of enjoying such great privileges.

As a whole, it has been a pleasant and encouraging season. Light on many points has been brought out, which we purpose to notice hereafter. A large amount of instruction, especially to ministers, of the most vital importance, has been given. The Lord has greatly helped Bro. and Sr. White to speak, and has given them his word fruitfully.

All our different enterprises, home and foreign, have received due consideration; and we believe the results of the doings of this Conference will be more marked, and tend more to the advancement of our work, than those of any other Conference we have yet held.

The records of the proceedings, so far as published, will give our readers some idea of the amount of business done, and account for the length of the session.

GENERAL CONFERENCE SUMMARY

For the year ending Nov. 7, 1879.

Names of Conferences.	Ministers.	Licentiates.	Churches.	Members.	Funds Pledged.
Maine	3	3	18	326	$1,135 79
Vermont	8	6	13	392	1,636 77
New England	3	6	24	503	2,898 69
New York	11	10	33	655	2,959 25
Pennsylvania	3	...	12	300	1,331 29
Ohio	8	12	23	674	2,762 44
Michigan	22	15	94	3175	8,280 48
Indiana	4	5	21	422	1,835 74
Wisconsin	12	10	52	1107	3,904 88
Illinois	9	11	34	676	3,084 24
Minnesota	17	20	53	968	3,875 65
Iowa	13	8	55	1202	3,954 11
Nebraska	3	6	23	298	1,340 00
Dakota Conference	1	3	10	200	...
Missouri	2	5	14	398	894 71
Kansas	5	10	34	700	2,256 00
California	7	4	31	¹740	¹5,899 36
Kentucky	1	1	3	76	272 46
Tennessee	1	3	5	54	133 00
Oregon	3	8	9	225	1,129 49
Texas	1	1	¹4	250	¹500 00
Gen'l Southern Mission	...	...	¹3	¹68	¹172 00
Nevada Mission	...	...	2	45	¹508 00
European Mission	2	...	16	223	442 70
Danish Mis'n in Europe	2	1	6	141	17 33
Ontario Mission	1	...	2	70	...
P. Q. Mission	1	...	3	73	250 00
Colorado Mission	...	...	2	55	250 00
Virginia Mission	1	3	...	55	...
Wyoming	...	...	...	70	...
Total	144²	151	599	14,141	$51,714 38
As given last year	117	154	549	13,077	$47,637 79
Gain during the year	27	²3	50	1,064	$4,076 59

Among the many important resolutions passed by the General Conference at its present session, we hope the second resolution passed at the third meeting, as reported in REVIEW No. 21, will not be overlooked. This was the resolution stating that this Conference regarded it the duty of each State Conference Secretary to furnish to the secretary of the General Conference, quarterly, a statistical and financial report of the churches of his Conference. According to present arrangements, the churches are to report to their State Secretary quarterly. With but little trouble the State Secretary can furnish a copy of these to the General Conference Secretary. Thus the standing of all the Conferences will be known each quarter, and by comparing these, we can be quite certain of tolerably full and accurate information concerning the standing of the cause in all the field, at the close of each year. On this action of the Conference we base a pleasing hope of the needed improvement in the matter of statistical and financial reports from the different Conferences to the General Conference. And we trust it will not be disappointed.

TO MY FRIENDS.

By J. O. Corliss

I WOULD say to my friends that my health is so much impaired, that I shall of necessity remain at the Sanitarium for treatment during the coming winter. I shall need all the means I can command, and therefore request all who are indebted to me, for books or otherwise, to forward the amount to me at Battle Creek.

J. O. CORLISS.

TO CLUB SECRETARIES.

WILL the secretaries of the Wisconsin local H. and T. clubs please forward their names and addresses to the State Secretary, Mary F. Stillman, Madison, Wis., in order that they may be supplied with blank books convenient for keeping correct minutes.

GENERAL MEETINGS IN OHIO.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We wish to hold two general meetings in each district in Ohio, where the district elders may appoint. We will begin with Bro. St. John's district, Sabbath, Dec. 20, and hold the second one Sabbath, Dec. 27. Will be at North Bloomfield, Jan. 2-5; and the next Sabbath where Bro. Underwood may appoint.

We hope to make these meetings of much importance; hence we request as large an attendance as possible. This is a time when our brethren are not pressed with work; so they should all arrange to attend one or more of these meetings.

Our State quarterly meeting will be held at the regular time,—the third Sabbath in January. We think of holding it at Dunkirk, if all the directors think best. All our tract officers and ministers should attend this meeting. We will spend much of the time in instructions in the tract work and also in the temperance work. Let all begin now to lay plans for it. We must not be behind our other State Conferences in these good works. D. M. Canright.

Publishers’ Department.

By Editor

“Not slothful in business.” Rom. 12:11.

Notice of expiration of subscription will be given by special stamp on the margin of the paper. We should be pleased to receive your renewal at once.

For sale or exchange, a beautiful home of fifty acres, one hundred rods north of the Adventist College. Valuation, $8,000; terms easy. Address Dr. W. I. Baker, Battle Creek, Michigan. P. O. Box 423.

MYRON ASHTON, Spencer Creek, Antrim Co., Mich., would like to employ six or eight able-bodied, reliable Sabbath-keepers to chop cord wood through the winter.

Books Sent by Express.

Mrs. Sophia Parker $8.15, F A Drake 1.00, Sylva Wilton 2.00.

Books Sent by Freight.

J B Gregory $856.79, Wm Ostrander 72.69, D H Lamson 102.11, O A Olsen 83.92.

Cash Rec’d on account.

Christian Black $3.00, N Y T & M Society per B L W 268.00, Me T & M Society R J Goodrich 30.00, D T Bourdeau 110.

Mich. Conf. Fund.

Vergennes per E Van Deusen $60.90, Mattawan Jennie R Richards 4.00.

Mich. T. & M. Society.

J O Barnhart $6.40, Dist 13 per D A Wellman 8.38.

Gen. Conf. Fund.

Mrs E Perkins free-will offering $5.00, W McNitt 1.07.

European Mission.

A Sister for Wales $2.00.

English Mission.

John Valentine $5.00.

Danish Mission.

Paul Jensen $5.00, Matilda Jensen 1.00, Pehr Norman 2.00, A O S Gudmundsrud 1.50, Jens Holm 15.00, Peder Amundson 15.00, Gina Amundson 3.00, Signe Olsen 2.00.