PACIFIC COAST | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1878

PACIFIC COAST.

[Abridged from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.]

Reno, Nevada.

After laboring at Reno four weeks, Eld. Loughborough closed his meetings there Aug. 18. The attendance has been good. There were four Sabbath-keepers in Reno and vicinity when the meetings commenced; seventeen others signed the covenant, and two who did not sign it took a stand on the Sabbath, one of whom resides in Nebraska and will unite with our people there. The twenty-two Sabbath-keepers in Reno have pledged $274.56 S. B., and have arranged for a regular Sabbath-school and Bible-class on the Sabbath, and a prayer-meeting each Tuesday evening. During the meetings, about fifty dollars’ worth of books were sold, 2,400 pages of tracts given away, and ten new subscribers obtained for the SIGNS.

Eld. L. speaks as follows of the progress the truth has made in Nevada during the past year:—

“One year ago there were about ten or twelve Sabbath-keepers in Nevada; now, there are about forty-five. Then, the S. B. was about $140 per year; now, it is $508.56 per year. Then, there was no tent in the State; now, there is a good clean and neat fifty-foot tent all paid for, with its outfit, stored safely, and insured. All expenses of the mission are paid, and there is about $50 in the treasury, besides some of the quarterly dues in one church to be collected for the present quarter, with which to open labor when a permanent minister shall come into the State.”

Placerville, Cal.

Meetings closed here Aug. 18. Sixteen signed the covenant, and others are keeping the Sabbath.

Brn. Stephens and Rice expect to pitch the tent in Santa Rosa the first week in September.

Eugene City, Oregon.

At this place Eld. Jones has just held a debate which has confirmed those who had already decided in favor of the truth, and has caused others to make favorable decisions. Twenty have signed the covenant, and others are keeping the Sabbath.