San Francisco by J. N. Loughborough

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Woodland, Cal. · Oct 22, 1874

San Francisco.

By J. N. Loughborough

TENT meetings are being held in San Francisco by Elds. Butler, Canright and Loughborough, in the 60x125 foot, California Mission tent. These meetings have been well attended from the first. The congregation ranges from 500 to 1200 persons, and the most deep and candid attention is given to the word spoken. Thus far it is the best interest we ever saw in San Francisco, or in the State.

We advertise daily in three daily papers. The combined circulation of these papers is, over 100,000 copies daily. The subject is announced for each evening. Brethren, it pays in the shape of increasing our audiences, to invest considerable in advertising.

One of these papers, the San Francisco Morning Call, says of our meetings, in its issue of Oct. 21st. "The tent meetings on the corner of Jones and Tyler streets are nightly attended by large and attentive audiences. The speakers are earnest men, who believe what they teach. The subjects thus far introduced have been the Earth's History as noted in prophesy; the United States as described by the prophets; the Signs of Christ's Second Coming, and the Doctrine of the World's Conversion. This evening Eld. D. M. Canright, one of the ablest speakers of the denomination, will speak on Modern Spiritualism."

On Wednesday evening, notwithstanding it rained, up to the hour of commencing meeting, there were about 500 interested hearers. Last evening our big tent was nearly full to listen to Bro. Canright on the subject of Spiritualism. There was profound attention. What books we had on Spiritualism went off like the dew, and there was an earnest call for more, which will be taken over from the SIGNS office for to-morrow night.

As people were going away from the tent, many who were hearing this course of lectures for the first, were heard to say, "They have the truth there at that tent, if there is any truth." We hope for glorious results from these lectures.

Pray that great success may attend this effort in San Francisco.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.