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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 8, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 19.

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PACIFIC COAST.

[Abridged from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.]

California T. and M. Society.

THE first State quarterly meeting of the California T. and M. Society of this Conference year was held in Oakland, Oct. 21, 1877.
The report shows the following summary of work during the past quarter. Membership, 348; reports, 169; new members, 10. Families visited, 405; letters written, 213; pages tracts and pamphlets loaned, 41,384; pages given away, 79,476; new subscribers for SIGNS, 58; for other periodicals, 86; periodicals distributed, 7,951; libraries furnished, 4.
The money received for memberships, donations, book sales, and widows and orphans, sums up $519.41, which, added to $481.41 received on the general fund, makes a total of $1000.82, an excess over last quarter of $87.84.

California State Sabbath-School Society.

AT the State quarterly meeting held in Oakland, Oct. 21, a State Sabbath-school Society was organized. A constitution was adopted. J. E. White was unanimously elected State superintendent, and Alice Canfield State secretary and treasurer. The society recommended the adoption of Prof. Bell’s graded question books throughout the State.