Courtesy Cards

The proposition of the Committee on Membership is, that we should issue cards

on membership,

which are to be given by congregations to their members, when these members go

other places, so that the members may be courteously received there. The

proposition of the committee also embodies or provides for withdrawal cards,

by which a member

who removes from one city to another may be assured of a welcome in the new

congregation

in the city which he makes his home. It also provides for cards, by which a

child may be transferred from the religious school of one city to that of

another. The

recommendation of our committee is, that the Executive Committee of our

Conference

should take in hand the first proposition, the proposition of a membership

card by

which members of a congregation may be assured of courteous treatment in the

towns they visit,

and that we leave the other two propositions for experimentation, after we

have tried

this. l n other words, the Executive Committee is to devise a card of this

kind,

and have the card printed, and issue a circular to congregations, saying that

we have

such a card, and asking them to provide themselves with such cards, and issue

them

to those persons who may desire them. (1904, p. 146)