a spirit of faultfinding with my co-laborers, but with a
desire to point out such deficiencies in our operations as
need our first attention. In these critical times, when
our public schoolsystem is supplied with all the
most improved appurtenances of modern education
and can secure the services of the best teachers by good
salaries, our Church School Organization would soon
wear itself out in the futile attempt to keep ahead
of all these enticements, if not every member of these
Boards and Faculties will perform his duty in the
spirit of a sacred mission.
Accompanying this letter is my annual report, both
statistical and financial, but I regret exceedingly the in-
completeness of the same, which has been caused by
the failure of some of the Boards to respond to my re-
peated and urgent requests to send in their reports. In
some instances I received only semi-annually reports,
in others the receipts and disbursements were not
specified as to Cash, [Mdse], or Produce, and in others
aggain these specifications were so terribly mixed that
it was very difficult to unraval them, not withstanding
the plainness of the blanks.
As General Circular No. 7 pages 3 & 4, par. 1 requires only
an Annual Report to be made out henceforth, to be
sent in on or before every July 15th, the confusion in
the minds of some Board-Secretaries and Treasurers will
be avoided, and I shall have time sufficient to get
things into proper shape for my October-Conference Report.