Pacheco and Lafayette by E. R. Gillett

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1878

Pacheco and Lafayette.

By E. R. Gillett

According to appointment, I met with these churches last Sabbath and Sunday. The object in visiting them at this time was to more fully enlist them in the tract and missionary work, and to organize vigilant missionary societies, if practicable, in both places. After setting the matter before them, a society of this kind was formed in each place. And, though there are but eleven members in these two churches, a club of thirty-three for the SIGNS was raised. This exceeded my most sanguine expectations, and should all the churches in California come up to the work as fully as these have done, the circulation of our good paper would be increased more than twenty-two hundred in this conference alone. And should all the churches on this coast do correspondingly well, three thousand would be added to its circulation!

It was a source of great pleasure to me to see how heartily these dear brethren entered into this good work. Even the children caught the spirit, and brought their offerings and cast them into the treasury of the Lord. May God bless them, and encourage their hearts to continue faithful unto the end.

E. R. GILLETT. Dec. 2, 1878.