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Missionary Society. Composed of ladies they have done and are still doing a good work. May the Lord bless them in their labors and may he send into their ranks females imbued with the great spirit of missions. We recommend that auxiliary societies be formed in every charge in the New Jersey Conference.
We further recommend that our pastors and laymen organize missionary societies in the bosom of the Sabbath-schools, and during the year the anniversary of each society shall be celebrated and collections raised for missions, home and foreign.
In view of the fact that in six counties of the State, viz: Sussex, Warren, Bergen, Hunterdon, Somerset and Ocean, we have no church organization, and that in several of the other counties the church has not that hold upon our people that it should have, in consideration of the fact that it is the great lever by which we are to be raised to all that belongs to true social, intellectual, moral and religious manhood; therefore, be it
Resolved, That at this session there be a suitable person appointed to be missionary-at-large through the State, whose duty it shall be to seek out the people, and wherever it is possible to organize them into religious societies to be attached to the A. M. E. Church;
Resolved, That because one of the great hindrances to the successful establishment of our church among such classes will be that of a monetary or financial character; therefore, we the pastors pledge ourselves to raise from ou several charges the sum of one cent per month from each and all of the members thereof, the same to be given to the support of said missionary;
Resolved, That the missionary cause may feel assured of our hearty co-operation; that we authorize the secretary of the conference missionary society to draw on the treasury for the sum of thirty dollars for the payment for the first month's salary, to be paid him monthly;
Resolved, That the missionary shall give or send a report of his labors, at least once a quarter, to the secretary of the Conference Missionary Society;
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