CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE.

The following report of the eighth annual session of the California State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held on the Healdsburg camp-ground Sept. 18-23, is condensed from the report of the secretary, Geo. Manuel, as given in the Signs of Oct. 9:—

The business of the session occupied five meetings, the first of which was held Sept. 18. Eld. S. N. Haskell was elected chairman. Thirty-eight delegates were present, representing twenty-one churches. The churches at Vacaville and Rocklin were received into the Conference, and those at Arbuckle and Nevada City were taken under its watchcare.

Wm. Saunders, of the committee to defend our position before the Constitutional Convention on Sabbath observance, reported that the committee had caused petitions to be circulated throughout the State, which had received about 2000 signatures; that this petition had been duly presented to one of the delegates to the Convention, but owing to the liberal disposition of that body in placing all religious denominations upon an equal footing, no action was taken upon the petition.

Resolutions were passed, expressing gratitude to the General Conference for sending Eld. S. N. Haskell to assist in the work on the Pacific coast; appropriating one-tenth of the funds of the State Conference to the General Conference; expressing confidence in the Testimonies, and recommending churches to place them within reach of all the members; recommending the dividing of the Conference into districts, and assigning to each laborer his own field; etc.

Eld. S. N. Haskell was elected president of the Conference for the ensuing year; J. D. Rice, secretary; Mrs. Emma L. White, treasurer; S. N. Haskell, John Morrison, and M. C. Israel, executive committee.

Credentials were renewed to J. N. Loughborough, M. C. Israel, J. L. Wood, J. D. Rice, B. A. Stephens, Wm. M. Healey, and John Judson; ministerial licenses were granted to R. A. Morton, J. E. White, W. C. Grainger, and J. S. Howard; and colporteur's licenses were granted to Edward Bush, Geo. Manuel, J. G. Hurley, E. L. McCapes, J. B. Dymot, W. M. Smith, M. D. Church, L. H. Church, R. D. Hicks, P. M. Partridge, and Frank Lamb.