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State Quarterly Meeting

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 25, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 16.

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State Quarterly Meeting.

The third quarterly meeting of the California State Tract and Missionary Society of Seventh-day Adventists, for the year, convened at Oakland, according to appointment, April 21, 1878. Of the eight districts four were represented by directors.
After the usual opening exercises and the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, which were approved, the secretary's report was called for and read, showing the following results:—
Annuals distributed 1,500 300 1,000 100 600 500 4,700 3,000 11,700
Other periodicals distributed 161 144 37 43 300 131 822
Signs distributed 723 40 464 125 88 2,129 881 4,450
New subscribers for other periodicals 40 17 2 14 22 61 156
New subscribers for Signs 4 11 5 61 13 104
No. pp. Tracts, etc., loaned 5,511 1,045 9,488 2,588 1,821 13,101 5,219 38,773
No. pp. Tracts, etc., given away 13,005 4,020 9,008 10,126 4,294 39,081 17,103 96,637
Widows and Orphans 4.60 $4.60
Book sales $8.80 6.60 9.60 13.35 19.40 12.85 $70.60
Donations $37.33 5.50 32.42 22.90 20.05 86.70 84.40 $289.30
New Members $1.00 1.00 2.00 6.00 $10.00
Letters written 35 26 18 217 39 350
Ships visited 2 21 23
Families visited 30 25 11 5 144 71 284
No. of Reports 43 18 44 21 10 48 33 217
Memberships 112 36 62 48 14 61 52 385
District 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Totals
The whole amount of money received is $374.50. The number of pages of tracts and pamphlets loaned and given away is 135,410.
In view of the good work being accomplished by the Vigilant Missionary Society of Oakland, it was:—
Voted, That the directors urge the organization of these societies in the various churches in the State. It was also
Voted, That the Oakland V. M. Society be requested to take 50 copies more of the Signs, making a club of 150 instead of 100, and that the 50 copies be paid for from the T. and M. one-third.
It was recommended that the V. M. Society of Oakland, take, in addition to the number given the Society by individuals, 10 copies of the French paper, Les Signes des Temps. A donation of $7.50 was made the Society to meet the expenses. It was also
Voted, That 1,000 copies of the next issue of the supplement published at Battle Creek, Mich., devoted to the missionary work, be forwarded to the Signs of the Times as soon as issued.
Adjourned to call of the chair. J. N. Loughborough, Pres. Mrs. A. M. Loughborough, Sec.