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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 4.

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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.