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 to the applicant of the amount
of the grant, and of the time and manner of forwarding.

The receipt of books from the Union ought always to be acknowl-
edged. Statements respecting their usefulness should also be made
to the Union in due time.

METHODIST TRACT SOCIETY.

This society was instituted by the General Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Chuch 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. To 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 distributers. 4. If his Church is too poor to
take a collection or to buy tracts, the Society desires, on proper appli-
cation, 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 responsiblity.

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 in the 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' worth or more are ordered.

A WORD OF ADVICE.

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

Get your money for benevolent purposes changed into bills or gold --
as large as possible -- 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, they will be poorer
still if you do not preach about them.