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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 21, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 27.

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OAKLAND CHURCH.

By Editor

SABBATH, July 16, was a good day with the Oakland church. After an absence from its pulpit of nearly two months, we enjoyed the meeting with this people, to whom we have become so strongly attached. We spoke on John 21:21, 22; the object was to impress a sense of individual responsibility, the necessity of looking to Christ for our pattern, and not to our fellow-creatures; of doing our own duty without regard to what others may or may not do.
In the afternoon about ninety were present to celebrate the ordinances of the Lord's house. Considering how the membership is scattered, this is a large number to be present on such an occasion. We have tried to instruct this people in regard to the responsibilities of church membership, and the duty of obeying the Saviour in attending to the ordinances. We were pleased to see a number present last Sabbath who have habitually absented themselves for a long time. They will certainly grow in grace if they continue to wait on the Lord in all his appointed ways.