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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1874

California.

From the report of Eld. J. N. Loughborough, President of the California Conference, to our late General Conference, we take the liberty to publish the following extract:—

The Lord will guide us as you counsel together concerning the publishing interests here. Our people east of the plains are giving full proof of their interest in the young cause here, in the promptness with which they respond with their means to establish the press here. I trust our people in this State will manifest a corresponding zeal as they arouse to the importance of the times and work.

Our people and missionaries here are waking up to some extent to the importance and magnitude of the work, and determine that we will give prominence and publicity to the truth, and not put our “light under a bushel.” The cause is recovering from some of the trials through which it has passed.

We now number in this Conference 500 church members, and our S. B. pledges amount to about $3600 per year. Of this 500, 75 have embraced the truth since your last General Conference, and over $1000 of S. B. been added in the same time. God blesses our humble, earnest endeavors to defend and advance his truth. We strike for a doubling of our numbers on this coast during the next year. God speed the truth, as on the wings of the wind.