At the recent annual meeting of the California and Nevada Conference, held in Fresno, the conference was divided into three smaller conferences as follows: 1. A Coast Conference consisting of the following coast counties, beginning on the north: Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz. 2. A Central California Conference composed of the following counties: Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, north of Tehachapi Range; San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito. 3. Northeastern California Conference composed of the following counties: Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Placer, Yolo, Sacramento, El Dorado, Amador, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Alpine, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, Mariposa, and the northern part of Nevada. The northern part of San Bernardino County, and the counties of Mono and Inyo in California, and of Esmeralda, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark in Nevada were ceded to the Southern California Conference. The approximate membership of these three conferences is as follows: Northwest or Coast Conference, 2800; Central Conference, 1128; Northeastern Conference, 1185. The respective annual incomes from tithes are as follows, $37,500, $18,300, $19,700. The assets and liabilities were divided among the three conferences pro rata according to membership. A Ray of Sunshine.— This is how a Catholic woman writes to one of our sisters who had been giving her the Signs and some other Christian publications: Dear Christian Sister: I write you a few lines this Thanksgiving Day. How beautiful is the day outside; but dear friend, how dark is the inside of my home. You know this day is celebrated joyfully to many, and also to many it is a sorrowful day. But I will say this,—the Signs of the Times comes to me every week, and it is just like a ray of sunshine. Its beautiful words are a comfort to read. They give one hope of a better and more peaceful life. O, I can't express all I wish to, but those three little books you left me—I many times steal away to read them, and the consolation they give I can not find words enough to tell you. This sister desires to be remembered in prayer. There are many others to whom the paper comes as a ray of light.