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

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1877

Report of Cal. State Quarterly Meeting

By John Norton Loughborough; A. M. Loughborough

The second State Quarterly Meeting of the California Tract and Missionary Society convened in Oakland, April 1, 1877. Meeting called to order by the President. Prayer by Eld. Waggoner. Of the nine Directors there were present, Wm. Harmon of Dist. No. 1; M. J. Church, Dist. No. 2; John Mavity, Dist. No. 3; Augustus Geary, Dist. No. 5; J. N. Loughborough, Dist. No. 7; and F. J. Otis, Dist. No. 8.

The minutes of the last meeting being called for, were read and accepted, after which the Secretary's report was read showing the workings of the Society for the quarter as follows:—


District.
Memberships.	331	38	14	11	31	40	30, 103
No. of Reports.	202	27	12	40	16	36	20, 47
Families Visited.	601	197	199	86	19	155	27, 48
Letters Written.	194	16	27	5	38	28	3, 29
New Members.	213	82	39	2	5	38	29, 28
Donations.	115.95	31.35	11.60	6.60	18.90	24.20	11.00, 33.40
Donations for Distribution of Signs on Ships.	16.50	3.00	5.00	6.00			2.50
Book Sales.	$392.60	132.60	75.30	39.20	12.55	44.33	8.15, $80.45
No. pp. Tracts &c. Loaned.	26,683	1,026	8,?	1,500	4,935	4,405	2,576, 4,152
No. pp. Tracts &c. Given Away.	92,815	17,330	11,502	24,353	3,968	12,095	7,578, 26,085
New Subscribers to Signs.	174	50	7	13	3	11	7, 29
New Subscribers to other Periodicals.	119	20	47	2		21
Signs Distributed.	2,308	696	174	47	14	62	388, 574
Other Periodicals Distributed.	607	190	7	38	34	131	7, 189
Ships Visited.	96	26	2	3	14	36
Signs Distributed on Ships.	1,200	160	250	3,500	12	101	600
Almanacs Distrib'd.	5,240	1,540	270	750	200	1,000	363, 1,370

Following the reading of this report, were interesting remarks by Eld. White, stating that California, and especially Oakland and San Francisco, were large fields for missionary work; and that there were those who were not overburdened with other duties who could engage in this work.

A preamble and resolution was presented by Bro. F. J. Otis, which had been adopted by Dist. No. 8, requesting advice from the General Conference Committee relative to furnishing, at the expense of each district, tract distributors, similar to the one used in the R. R. station at Rome, N. Y., and described in Review, Vol. 49, No. 8.

Moved and supported, That the subject be referred to the General Conference Committee.

Following this resolution remarks were made relative to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, how to increase its circulation, etc. It was added that it required hard work, and hard thinking to issue a paper like the SIGNS, and we Californians ought to do something in proportion to what the Eastern brethren are doing, in soliciting subscribers. With an exhortation to be awake to this matter, the meeting adjourned to Monday at 9 A. M.

SECOND SESSION, APRIL 2, 9 A. M.

After dwelling upon the manner of doing missionary business it was

Voted, That the Directors be requested to publish 1000 copies of a tract, giving brief instructions to missionary officers and workers, concerning the manner of doing T. and M. business.

Adjourned to call of the Chair.

J. N. Loughborough, Pres. A. M. Loughborough, Sec'y.