Untranscribed 1862

16 TRACT SOCIETY.

Grants are often delayed for want of full information respecting some important points overlooked by the applicants.
When books are granted, notice is sent tot he applicant for the amount of the grant, and of the time and manner of forwarding. The receipt of books from the Union ought always to be acknowledged. Statements respecting their usefullness should also be made to the Union in due time.

METHODIST TRACT SOCIETY.

This society was instituted by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1852.
Presidents, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Corresponding Secretary, Rev, DANIEL WISE, D.D.
Treasurer, J.B. EDWARDS, Esq., Methodist Book Concern, New York.

The object of this Society is to promote the circulation of evangelical tracts and books. It desires every preacher, 1. To organize a corps of tract distributers in every Society under his charge. 2. Ti take up a tract collection for the Parent Society. 3. To claim, if necessary, tracts and Good News to the value of half the amount of his collection, for the use of his tract distrubuters. 4. If his Church is too poor to take a collection or to buy tracts, the Society desires, on proper application, to make suitable grants of tracts, providing his Church will be responsible for their circulation.

Where annual conferences employ conference agents and colporteurs the Society assumes no responsibility.

Considerable funds are annually required by this Society to meet the wants of our German, Swedish, and Norwegian work. Perhaps it is nowhere more useful than int he foreign department of its work.

Donations should be transmitted to the Treasurers, as above.

Tracts are sold at fifteen pages for one cent, or twenty pages when five dollars or more are ordered.

A WORD OF ADVICE.

Before starting to Conference, be sure that your statistical report is carefully made out. Your station, whether large or small, is a part of the whole, and should be accurately represented.

Get your money for benevolent purposes changed into bills or gold - and thus save the treasurers of the societies much labor.

Take the earliest opportunity to hand to the persons appointed to receive them, your statistics and benevolent moneys; and thus save them the trouble of finding YOU to get them.

While at home, make it a point of conscience to present to the people of your charge the claims of all our benevolent objects. If the people are too poor to contribute to all or any of them, the will be poorer still if you do not preach to them.