San Francisco by John Norton Loughborough; William M. Healey

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 6, 1878

San Francisco.

By John Norton Loughborough; William M. Healey

We have the pleasure of reporting “progress” in the work in San Francisco. The interest seems to deepen as we advance. Last Sabbath five more signed the covenant, making twenty-seven who have signed already since this series of meetings has commenced. Of these, four have presented themselves as candidates for baptism and admission into the church; others will follow, so we shall have a baptism by another week.

Brother Israel is getting acquainted quite rapidly with the interested ones so as to be able to continue the work when the tent leaves. We have now given in all sixty discourses, and shall keep up our tent at least one week more, before moving it to Oakland for another series of meetings there.

At our last Sabbath meeting it was voted by the San Francisco church that Brother. M. C. Israel, having been formerly elected as elder of the church, should now serve in that capacity, fulfilling all the functions of that office by virtue of his ordination as a minister among Seventh-day Adventists.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, W. M. HEALEY.