PACIFIC COAST | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1878

PACIFIC COAST.

[Abridged from the Signs of the Times.]

Reno, Nevada.

Fourteen meetings have been held here. Eld. Loughborough has given thirteen discourses on the prophecies and the immortality question, to which the people have listened with marked attention. The congregations have never been less than one hundred, and sometimes as many as five hundred have attended. God blesses in the work.

On Tuesday evening, July 30, Sr. White spoke with freedom to some four hundred hearers, on the words of John, “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” Her presence and discourse added much to the interest of the meeting, and left a favorable impression on the public mind.

Oakland, Cal.

The tent-meeting which Eld. Healey has held at Oakland closed Aug. 5. Forty-three signed the covenant. Thirty were baptized, two of whom are converts from the Roman Catholic faith. This meeting has made many friends to the cause besides those who have fully received the truth, and an extensive field is opened for the tract workers.

Placerville, Cal.

The tent-meeting at Placerville, conducted by Eld. B. A. Stephens, seems to be progressing favorably. Eighty-three have, by vote, expressed their belief that the seventh day is the Sabbath; but how many will obey remains to be decided.

Lone Oak and Pleasant Valley, Cal.

At Lone Oak, where Eld. J. L. Wood held meetings July 13, the people manifest a desire to take hold of the tract work in earnest. Tract society business was transacted at this meeting. At Pleasant Valley two signed the covenant.