A Good Meeting. 1 by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1879

A Good Meeting. 1

By Editor

TUESDAY evening, June 24, witnessed an excellent meeting in Oakland. The prayer meeting was spirited and lively. After several earnest prayers, twenty-seven hearty testimonies were given in fifteen minutes.

So many of the tract and missionary workers having removed from the city, the society wisely concluded to hold their meetings on the nights of prayer-meetings, and thus secure the interest and aid of all who meet on those nights.

So far the result has been good, the interest being on the increase throughout the membership. On the evening referred to, encouraging letters were read from California, Iowa, Virginia, and South Carolina. The letter from Japan, since published, was also read, and commented upon. Several suggestive questions were raised: How did this man happen to get a copy of the SIGNS, nearly two years old, in Yokohama? How was it taken there? Who sent it? What will result from the sending of that paper?

Here is another evidence presented of the utility of working, and of persevering in well-doing, without stopping to wait for results. We believe that many missionary workers whose names are little known in this world, will find stars in their crowns of which they will not be aware till the glorious gathering day.