Report of State Quarterly Meeting by John Norton Loughborough; A. M. Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1877

Report of State Quarterly Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough; A. M. Loughborough

The first State Quarterly Meeting of the Cal., T. and M. Society for the present year was held, according to appointment, in Oakland, Jan. 7, 1877. The meeting opened with prayer by the President. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted, after which the Secretary's report showing the workings of the Society for the quarter was called for, and read as follows:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Memberships.	88	44	12	31	48	55	165	443
No. of Reports.	18	27	15	16	42	25	47	190
Families Visited.	72	108	2	10	144	28	33	409
Letters Written.	21	8	9	4	5	57	26	162
New Members.		6	1		2	9	6	24
Donations.	7.60	40.00	40.00	17.00	7.25	15.98	$2.80	$392.08
Donations for Distribution of Signs on Ships.			41.65	13.00			$9.50	$64.15
Book Sales.	52.15	5.50	6.25	20.64	29.14	68.58	$28.60	$241.06
No. pp. Tracts &c. Loaned.	2,654	870	15,831	100	7,912	17,600	2,527	46,694
No. pp. Tracts &c. Given Away.	9,158	3,056	16,?	6,327	6,931	28,783	29,818	18,202
New Subscribers to Signs.	24	2	22	9	14	15	17	95
New Subscribers to other Periodicals.	8	85	2	16	6	15	53	192
Signs Distributed.	151	80	49	410	90	690	688	1,809
Other Periodicals Distributed.	96	2	214	22	143	12	154	698
Ships Visited.	60							60
Signs Distributed on Ships.	2,082	650	475					3,207
Libraries Furnished.	2						1	3

It will be seen that the total amount of money received for memberships, donations, including donations for Signs to be placed on ships, and from book sales is $421.29. The number of Signs distributed on ships, as seen above, is 3207, making the total number distributed, 5016. By comparing the above report with previous ones of the same character it is seen, that, incomplete as this is, it far exceeds, in point of labor performed, any other quarterly report since the organization of the society.

Following the reading of this report were interesting and instructive remarks by Eld. White relative to missionary labor, stating his interest in the Signs, and what he purposed to do for it, adding that by the grace of God the paper should be just what the people would want to place in the hands of their friends; and with words of cheer and courage to all missionary workers the meeting adjourned to call of the Chair.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.

A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH, Sec.