Close of the Tent Meeting.
By D. M. Canright
Monday, Dec. 21, we took down the tent in San Francisco after a stay of over two months. We are thankful to God for the good results which we have been permitted to see. Some twenty-five or thirty have come out on the truth. Several of these have been baptized and have joined the church; and others will soon. $186.35 have been contributed for our expenses with the tent. Brother Diggins has also met some of our heaviest expenses. Others have helped in various ways. Have sold over $125 worth of books, and obtained a good list of subscribers for the SIGNS, Reformer, &c. Sabbath, Dec. 19, we came together after a season of fasting and prayer, and we had a most precious season. Nearly every soul took part in our social meeting, some for the first time. Then we celebrated the ordinances. Altogether it was a refreshing season. On Sunday we had a meeting of the Tract and Missionary Society. S. B. was re-organized to the amount of $750. Probably this will be raised by absent ones to about $1,000. This does not include their hall rent. A building committee was appointed to prepare for building a meeting house here which is much needed. I have now been in the tent this season eight months without intermission. My health was never better; nor do I feel particularly tired. I now go to Napa.