San Francisco and Oakland by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1878

San Francisco and Oakland.

By John Norton Loughborough

BEING permitted to spend a few days with these two churches about the time of our State quarterly meeting, I am happy to report that the work at head quarters of our work on the Pacific coast is onward. District No. 7 has disposed of 3,200 Health Annuals, of these 3,000 were taken by the church of Oakland. San Francisco made arrangments during my last meeting there to dispose of 580, the last of her quota of 3,000 Annuals.

The Vigilant Missionary Society in Oakland is doing a good work, not only in circulating the SIGNS, and others of our publications, but also in corresponding with individuals in various parts of the country. Much good might be done by other of our California churches, were our sisters prepared to take hold of, and prosecute the matter as the Oakland Vigilant Missionary Society is doing.

Our State quarterly meeting was interesting, but not so much so as it would have been could we have had a more full attendance of the directors. Nothing serves more to give life and importance to the work than to have all parts of the field represented in our State quarterly meetings. In those districts whose directors have been the most prompt to attend the State quarterly meetings, the work seems to go with the greatest zeal. If all directors are there, they more quickly understand the full import of any measures decided to be acted upon. Perhaps all our districts do not understand yet, although acted upon by vote of State quarterly meeting, and reported in the SIGNS, that the traveling expenses of those directors who do attend the State quarterly meeting is apportioned among all the districts in the State according to their financial strength. We hope by the next quarterly meeting to see all the directors present. It will be a very important meeting, being held just before the opening up of our summer's tent campaign in California.

The missionary work in Oakland has created considerable outside interest there, and it was deemed advisable to have Brother Healey immediately give a course of lectures and follow up the work there.

In San Francisco, Brother Andrew Brorsen is to follow up the interest that has been awakened there among the Scandinavians, assisting at the same time in the work among the Americans until the tent shall be placed there with the opening spring. San Francisco and Oakland are important points. Pray the Lord to open the way and bless our efforts in these places. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.