State Quarterly Meeting by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 24, 1878

State Quarterly Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough

The State Quarterly Meeting of the California Tract and Missionary Society convened in Oakland, the evening of January, 19, 1878 as per appointment. Of the eight directors, four were present, namely, Wm. Harmon, John Mavity, E. R. Gillett and Chas. Chittenden. District No. 7 was well represented by a majority of its members, as was also No. 8.

After the usual opening exercises the minutes were called for, read and approved. The secretary's report containing the workings of the society for the last quarter, was also read. The report is as follows :—


Ships visited. . . . . .								70
Other periodicals distributed . . .	123	12	151		53	114	329	825
Signs distributed . . .	716	299	490		106	188	1,659	1,223
New subscribers for other periodicals .	17	6	4		13	30	53	1
New subscribers for Signs . . .	9	17	15		23	6	41	6
No. pp. Tracts, etc., loaned . . .	1,306	14,987	6,927		9,227	3,814	10,995	7,868
No. pp. Tracts, etc., given away . . .	19,753	15,200	7,998		27,117	105	20,203	37,191
Widows and Orphans		25					21.50	25
Book sales . . . . . .	$23.10	63.00	4.65		21.60	5.75	6.95
Donations . . . . . .	$20.59	27.03			26.66	10.50	56.20	36.50
New Members . . . . .		$8.00	3.00		6.00	2.00
Letters written . . . .	33	45	31		23	6	48	46
Families visited . . . .	36	91	49		35	20	104	143
No. of Reports . . . .	47	20	37		22	6	44	31
Memberships . . . . .	113	50	56		47	11	58	45
District . . . . . 1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

It was ascertained that after selling to the society 10,200 copies of the Health Annual there still remained in the SIGNS Office about 1,800 copies unsold. It was

Voted, That these copies be placed in the hands of the members of the Vigilant Missionary society of Oakland, to be disposed of as thought best, and that Elder Loughborough be empowered to raise the means necessary to make the purchase and to meet the expense of mailing, etc. It was also

Voted, That we as a society take 1,500 copies of a quarterly supplement devoted to the interests of the T. and M. work, to be published at Battle Creek, Mich., and that we forward to its managers any items of progress that would tend to increase the interest of the paper.

John Norton Loughborough, President. Mrs. A. M. Loughborough, Secretary.