The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05

who cannot always do just as they
desire, even for the church they love.
With such we can truly sympathize,
and these remarks do not apply.
Every woman's own conscience will
tell if she is to blame or only care
less.
| Things to Take Home.
Next to taking home with you the
determination to be prompt, take
home that other decision to use all
the means we have adopted to cult
vate and keep alive the missionary
spirit. We heard last year of some
few Mission Circles that never got
down to work until January. They
just deliberately skipped all the
influences of companionship and
Christian fellowship which the
monthly meeting might have brought
them, and the information and i'm
pulse monthly study of the topic
cards or some other subjects-for one
is not obliged to use the topic card if
other themes seem better adapted to
their needs.
What kind of president is it who
lets all the months, except the very
last, slip by before she calls meeting
of the circle that only meets once or
twice year! She cannot expect to
have much influence in the parish or
the community, nor can such a circle
expect to be recognized as part of
the church work at home or any
where else.
We sometimes think that some
pastors are remiss in their duty to-
wards the Woman's Missionary So
ciety. 1t does not always appear
chronicled as it should among the
other auxiliary societies of the church.
Perhaps the sisters have not insisted
as they should that the missionary
meeting is at the very foundation of
church life. There are very few of
the ministers who will deny that if it
is rightly presented to them.
Go home sisters, determined to do
better this year if you have been at
fault in any of these particulars. Do
not be too easy with yourselves, but
show some life, and | dare say if you
are blessed ca with an Indifferent
pastor, you will convert him before
the year is out. Insist on being cata
logued with the other church help
ers, the Ladies' Aids, the Y. p. G
U.S., and the way will grow easier. 1t
is use that makes things easy, aud
the regular meeting, and the fresh
topic will help to make collecting
easier
Receipts.
One of the stumbling blocks that
mar the peaceful lives of the State
secretaries is that we require re-
ceipt for the memberships retained at
home. If you will consider a mo-
ment it will become plain why, al
though it has been explained over
and over by letter, and some treasur-
ers and secretaries never send re-
ceipt for amount retained until it is
sent for, and sometimes not then.
Another reason why our National
Treasurer's report is not as large as it
ought to be. Having employed two
expert auditors to audit her accounts,
they would not credit anything she
has not receipt to show for, even
if it was down on her books. Neither
the secretary nor the treasurer ever
credits anything ON the books until
there is something to show for it the
shape of check, draft, postal order
or cash in hand. That is business.
We are always confident that the
memberships at home are as large as
those sent to US, but we want you to
go home this year remembering that
when you send memberships from
the States we want receipt for the
amount retained to accompany it..
Red tape? Yes. But red tape has
done a lot of saving and the lack of
it caused loss of time and opportu-
nifty many times.
| Suggestions.
Some of you send letters to the
corresponding secretary without date
or place that could identify it in case
it went astray. Some of you have
sent money to the National treasury
without stating whether it were for
the Pacific Coast Mission, or for mem
bership, or what. Some of you nave
not yet learned how to properly en-
dorse check.
Another thing we women in socie-
ties need is knowledge of how TODD
businessin parliam entary way when
assembled together. We should all
find it advantageous to know how to
stop debate in a simple manner ac-
cording to rule without being rude
We would expedite our business.
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