PACIFIC COAST | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 20, 1877

PACIFIC COAST.

[Abridged from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.]

Washington Territory, and Oregon.

AFTER reporting meetings with the small companies of Sabbath-keepers at Jefferson, Oregon City, Portland, and Beaverton, Eld. Loughborough thus sums up the results of his labors in connection with Eld. Van Horn:—

“We held, in the fifty days we were together, sixty-four meetings for preaching besides ten business meetings. To get before the mind some of the results, I would state that the S. B. last year among our people in the N. P. Mission was $695.30. Of this over $100 were used for church purposes. For the year 1878, the pledge is already $1,295.74, all good to the Conference. Last year there was no missionary one-third pledged; for 1878 there are pledged $404.59 to the missionary fund, besides $350 to the $300 missionary fund of the North Pacific Missionary Society. The sum of $2,950 was pledged in stock to the Pacific S. D. A. Publishing Fund, and $86.75 were paid in private donations toward my traveling expenses, and the eight weeks’ time spent in that Conference. What has been pledged to different enterprises has been done with a spirit of good cheer, and a desire to see the work prosper.”

Bro. L. reached San Francisco, Dec. 5.

Lakeside, Cal.

At this place, nine are keeping the Sabbath as a result of the recent labors of Bro. J. L. Wood and J. D. Rice, making a company here of twelve. Others are keeping the Sabbath. Nov. 29, ten were baptized.