San Francisco Mission

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 31.

San Francisco Mission.

A COUNCIL of the friends of the cause in Oakland and San Francisco was recently held in the latter city, at which it was unanimously voted to move the mission rooms and library from Fremont Street to the basement of the Seventh-day Adventist meeting-house, on Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler. The location on Fremont Street was accepted as the only available one near the wharves. But among the reasons for the change are the following:—

There are no cars running on Fremont Street.
There are so many foundries and heavy workshops on that street that it is noisy by day, and disagreeable walking by night.
That they have failed to get any considerable number to visit the reading-room, or to attend the meetings.
The new cable-car line up McAllister Street makes the time between the Market Street ferry landing and the meeting-house only twenty minutes.
The Market Street car line transfers to the Fifth Street line, thus making an easy and direct passage between the meeting-house and the shipping in Mission Bay.
There are several car lines not far distant from the meeting-house, so that all parts of the city are easily accessible by street-cars from the house.
All those who are induced to visit the mission for any purpose become acquainted with the location of the Sabbath meetings. And the mission and the missionary meetings, and all the meetings, are at the same place.
And there will be a saving to the mission of about $20 a month.

All those who are acquainted with the city and with the two localities, will readily understand the force of all these reasons. All that has been accomplished thus far, or nearly all, has been by visiting, which can be done from the neighborhood of the meeting-house full as well as from Fremont Street. It was the general opinion that more could be brought to visit the mission at the present location than at the former.

Missionary workers in San Francisco find plenty to do. There are many interested readers of our papers and books at the present time, and accessions to the truth are frequent. And so it will continue to be. The only difficulty we find in these two cities is to get laborers enough to meet the demand.

"THE Lord taketh pleasure in his people; he will beautify the meek with salvation."