San Francisco by M. C. Israel

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 12, 1882

San Francisco.

By M. C. Israel

THERE was a good attendance at the church quarterly meeting at this place last Sabbath, and nearly all who were not present were heard from. All present gave encouraging testimonies, and spoke of their determination to seek the Lord more earnestly and to live up to the light of present truth more faithfully the year to come, if life is spared, than they have done in the one that is past.

The ordinances were celebrated and participated in by nearly all present, and we felt that the Lord came near.

In the evening the T. and M. quarterly meeting was held. A larger number than usual was present. There was quite an increase in the amount of labor performed compared with last quarter, and a larger number of reports than usual.

A move has been made to thoroughly canvass the city with the Signs, by taking up the wards separately. Each person who will, takes one precinct at a time, and sends a few copies of the paper to each person who manifests an interest to read them, and follows this up with a visit or a letter. Fifteen persons engaged to enter upon this work, and an addition of forty-five Signs was ordered to the club of eighty now taken.

Our Wednesday evening prayer and missionary meetings are increasing in interest, and we hope that the work we have now entered upon may be performed faithfully, and that God's blessing may attend it so that by the next tent season there will be sufficient interest to call for a tent-meeting to be held here. M. C. Israel.