THE CHURCH by Alonzo T. Jones

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 33.

THE CHURCH

By Alonzo T. Jones

Has an average attendance at Sabbath meetings of about sixty. Since the first Sabbath in July there has been regular preaching on the Sabbath. Since the first of August, there has been preaching also on Sunday evenings, and Bible-reading on Wednesday evenings. There seems to be, on the part of the members generally, an appreciation of these services, and an earnest desire to profit by them.

Of those from the outside, there is some attendance at the Sabbath preaching. But on Sunday evenings there is quite a goodly number of interested hearers, some indeed showing so much interest as to send in a request for us to preach on a certain subject, then, having heard it, have accepted it as the truth of the Scriptures. Regular preaching having been held so short a time as yet, of course the outside attendance is not very large, but we can notice an increase of the number each succeeding evening, and we hope, from the efforts that have been and are being made by the missionary workers, that the number may increase more and more.

Altogether we see not a single discouraging feature of the work in San Francisco. And we think that this brief exhibit of the work done in the recent past, and the measure of success that so far has crowned the efforts, give us good cause for rejoicing in the Lord, and like him of old, we may "thank God and take courage."

ALONZO T. JONES.