ANNUAL MEETING IN OAKLAND.
By J. N. Loughborough
THE series of meetings to be held in connection with the stockholders' meeting of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, will begin Thursday evening, April 18, and close Wednesday evening, April 24. Every year these meetings become more and more important, as we have, each year, one year less in which to fulfill our mission of spreading the precious truths committed to our trust. This yearly meeting will be emphatically the most important we have ever held. Those who attend, and learn the situation, and what is to be done, will see it so before the meetings are over if they do not now. Those who are assigned to responsible positions in the work who do not attend this meeting, but pass it by as of little importance to them, will surely miss a precious opportunity for needed instruction and fitting up for labor. Brother W. C. White now designs to be with us, and will aid by his counsel and labors in the meeting. It will be observed that the time for the meeting is much shorter than last year, but these six days will be packed full of interesting services, and the consideration of topics that are of the greatest importance in these eventful times. As the time of the gathering is so short, we hope to see a full attendance from the beginning to the very close. The meeting should be attended by all our ministers, licentiates, canvassers, Conference workers, tract and missionary directors and officers, and as many of the church and Sabbath-school officers as can make it convenient to come. At this time, plans must be laid for tent and other summer labor. It will also be an occasion for imparting instruction relative to the mode of working. We want to know what is to be done, how to do it, where and when to work. Let our people in different parts of the Conference send at once, in writing, to J. N. Loughborough, Oakland, Cal., their desires for help, and the openings they may see for labor of various kinds. And let your prayers, now, and up to the time of the meeting, ascend to Heaven that the Lord may guide in our councils, and that proper help may be employed, and that the workers may be properly distributed so that the greatest amount of good shall be done for the greatest number. The Oakland church will have a restaurant, as usual, and will give free entertainment to such of our brethren and sisters as may attend the meeting. Please bring blankets with you, and give notice to C. H. Jones, Pacific Press, by April 12, that you are coming, and places of lodging will be provided. Thus confusion will also be avoided when you do come. On arriving in Oakland, April 18, come at once to the Pacific Press, Castro Street, where you will find a committee who will show you to your place of lodging and entertainment. In behalf of the California Conference. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.