STATE QUARTERLY MEETING

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 5, 1881

STATE QUARTERLY MEETING.

ACCORDING to appointment the third session of the California Tract and Missionary Society for 1880–81, convened at Oakland, April 24, at 9:30 A. M. Four directors were present. T. M. Chapman of district No. 1; Wm. Saunders of No. 5; W. J. Bostwick of No. 7, and Eld. M. C. Israel of No. 8. Several of the district secretaries and librarians were also present, besides visitors from various churches.

Prayer was offered by Eld. Corliss, when the president stated the nature of the meeting, and considered that the extent and magnitude of the work rendered any more that might be made of great importance. He spoke of the cause in its small beginning, and what might be accomplished in a short time, if, with our increase of members, there had been a proportional increase of interest manifested in the work.

The report of labor for the quarter ending Jan. 1, was then read, also the report for the last quarter which is as follows:—

Districts.	No. of Members.	No. Reports Returned.	No. of Members Added.	No. of Visits.	No. of Letters Written.	No. Sheets taken in Clubs.	Review.	Signs.	Good Health.	Instructor.	Other Periodicals.
No. 1	104	54	1	46	184	104	4	15	4	18	3
“ 2	96	20		40	84	113
“ 3	66	32		126	844	184	1	3	4	1	1
“ 4	14	4						1
“ 5	96	42	1	123	163	180	1	10	4	2	12
“ 6	23	18		39	43	56		19		2
“ 7	110	70	2	60	273	539	2	12	40
“ 8	62	39	1	327	43	105	3	38	1	1	101
“ 9	5					10
Ships.			134
Total.	577	279	5	895	1134	1401	11	98	53	24	117

Districts.	No. of Pages of Reading Matter Distributed.	Periodicals Distributed.	Annuals Sold and given away.	Donations to Tract Fund and for Membership.	Sales.	Periodicals.	Total.
No. 1.	40509	3576	107	$23 10	$ 9 70	$ 63 20	$101 00
“ 2.	8725	754		53 89	19 50	2 00	75 39
“ 3.	5263	617	28	30 90	28 35	73 65	132 90
“ 4.	400	35
“ 5.	14612	1614	491	33 31	16 48	81 05	130 84
“ 6.	13201	941		4 65	19 85	39 35	63 85
“ 7.	53327	1783		38 35	1 15	11 00	50 50
“ 8.	25795	2011	110	5 60	5 75	14 50	25 85
“ 9.
Ships.	50258	5473	260
Total.	223090	16804	996	$189 80	$100 78	$289 75	$580 33