The San Francisco Tent Meeting by John Norton Loughborough

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 3, 1874

The San Francisco Tent Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough

Our tent meeting still continues in San Francisco, notwithstanding the lateness of the season. We have just had our second rain, the heaviest ever known here this early in the season. We have lost only one meeting on account of rain since our last report. There is now prospect of fair weather again for meetings. We have two large stoves in the tent which make it comfortable for the people.

We had a very interesting Sabbath meeting last Sabbath in San Francisco. Part of our brethren were over from Oakland. One hundred were present. A discourse was given and many encouraging testimonies were borne. At the same time about thirty were having a meeting at Oakland. On first-day morning we retired to the bay, and five were baptized. Among these were one Dane, a Bro. Jessen, and a sister Johnson formerly a Catholic Nun. The baptizing season was very interesting. Not far from a score of new ones have taken their stand in San Francisco, and still we labor on. Pray for us. J. N. L.