California State Meeting by D. T. Bourdeau; M. G. Kellogg

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1870

California State Meeting.

By D. T. Bourdeau; M. G. Kellogg

AGREEABLY to previous appointment in the REVIEW, the second annual meeting of the California State meeting of Seventh-day Adventists, was held in Santa Rosa, Sunday, April 10, 1870.

Meeting was called to order by the President, Eld. D. T. Bourdeau. The Secretary being absent, Bro. M. G. Kellogg was chosen Secretary pro tem. Eld. D. T. Bourdeau, T. M. Chapman, and Wm. B. Dennison, were chosen as a committee on nominations. While this committee were selecting a board of officers, the minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted. Bro. Loughborough also read a brief but interesting history of the California Mission, from the record in the Secretary's book. Elds. Bourdeau and Loughborough made their reports of receipts and expenses from April 12, 1869, to April 8, 1870, which were accepted. The Treasurer's report was made as follows:


Received from Churches: Windsor, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, and Healdsburg,	$624.35
Individuals,	139.35
Total received,	$763.70

EXPENDED.


To preachers,	$574.02
Tent-master, 7 months,	131.60
Tent expenses,	52.08
Book for State Records,	1.50
Total,	$759.20

Balance in treasury April 8, $4.50

Report accepted. It was also further stated by the Treasurer that there had been paid in this State to ministers during the past year, aside from money paid into the treasury, $33.50; making a total raised in the State the past year for support of the mission, $797.20

Before the State meeting was organized, there had been raised in the State $112.80; making the sum total raised in the State since the commencement of the mission, in gold, $910.00, and $88.00 in gold for the general Book Fund of S. D. Adventists.

The subject of quarterly meetings was next taken up, and after appropriate remarks, a plan for quarterly meetings, previously prepared by the Executive Committee, was submitted for the consideration of the meeting, as follows:

Petaluma, the fourth Sabbath in April; Green Valley, the second Sabbath in May; Healdsburg, the first Sabbath in June; Santa Rosa, the first Sabbath in July; and in each place once in three months, dating from the time of the first meeting. This arrangement was unanimously adopted by the meeting. The following resolution was then read and adopted:

Resolved, That we hereby express our gratitude to God for sending Bro. Bourdeau to this coast, to labor in the Mission here, and that we pledge to him our sympathies and prayers for success as he now goes to labor among the French.

The Committee on Nominations presented the following list of officers who were elected by unanimous vote: President, J. N. Loughborough; Secretary, H. T. Hewitt; Treasurer, J. N. Loughborough; other two members of Executive Committee, M. G. Kellogg and John Bowman. Adjourned sine die.

D. T. BOURDEAU, Pres.

M. G. KELLOGG, Sec., pro tem.