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Among the Churches of California

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 18, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 51.

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Among the Churches of California

By A. E. Place

RECENTLY, at the request of our conference committee, I visited our churches at Alameda, Haywards, Los Gatos, Santa Cruz, and Morgan Hill. It was a pleasure to meet the brethren in these churches.
Some seem to see a great difference between the East and the West. Nearly all of my work in the message has been done in the East, from Maine to the Virginias; but the last three years have been spent in California, and as I look over the ground, human nature seems to be very much the same. Certainly the message we have to give to the world is the same the world over. It does the same work upon Americans, Japanese, Portuguese, and the rest. As far as the responses to the truth we have loved so long—the look of the eye, the shake of the hand, the “God bless you,” etc.—are concerned, I can scarcely realize that a continent separates between me and the churches of New York or New England.
Faith in the threefold message and in its glorious triumph in “yet a little while,” a willingness and desire to take hold of the Ingathering campaign, or, in a word, to do duty in God’s order and by under his Spirit, seem to be the good things I have met with in these churches. It has been a blessing to me to study with them the truths we have so long loved, and it is a pleasure once more to send a report to ‘the good old REVIEW.’
Through tent efforts and the camp-meeting this season a good work has been done here at San Jose. Between sixty and seventy have accepted the faith, and others are in the valley of decision.
Whatever men may say or men may do, in spite of all the unpleasant and trying conditions existing among us, one thing is certain,—the Seventh-day Adventist people are carrying to the world a unifying message, which is preparing a people to stand without ‘spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,’ at the appearing of the Lord himself. What an opportunity is held before every soul today!
A. E. PLACE.