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Labor in Sacramento

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 17.

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Labor in Sacramento.

By N. C. McClure, L. A. Scott, F. L. McClure

OUR labors in Sacramento commenced at the close of the camp-meeting last fall, continuing through the winter, and closing at this date. The camp-meeting was a great source of encouragement to the few Sabbath-keepers in this city, and it was with joy they again covenanted with God and each other, re-establishing their meetings.
Rooms have been secured in the central part of the city, and furnished to accommodate about forty persons; a portion of the house was occupied by the laborers. Sabbath and prayer-meetings, Sunday night Bible readings, and a Sabbath school of about twenty members have been sustained and well attended. A club of fifteen Instructors is taken for the school. We also organized a Tract and Missionary Society of twelve members, taking a club of fifteen copies of SIGNS. Most of the covenant members take the SIGNS, and some the Review and Good Health. The subject of tithing and the testimonies are understood, and they will try to discharge their duties in the future.
Sister M. J. Wilkinson was appointed leader, and Sister Rachel Weeks superintendent of the Sabbath school.
Having districted the city we visited from house to house, canvassing nearly 200 blocks, conversing with all who desired to do so, distributing thousands of pages of tracts and papers, loaning our best books, and inviting investigation of present truth. We have taken the names of some 300 persons, to whom the SIGNS has been sent for one month, besides distributing from 50 to 100 copies each week in our labors.
Ten persons have signed the covenant since camp-meeting, making their numbers, at this time, about twenty. The records of eternity alone will show the result of our labors. We are commanded "to sow beside all waters." May God bless the seed sown in Sacramento, is our prayer. N. C. MCCLURE, L. A. SCOTT, F. L. MCCLURE.