Oakland by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 20, 1875

Oakland.

By John Norton Loughborough

Sabbath and first-day, May 15 and 16, at 11 A. M. of each day, I had meetings with the Oakland church. On Sabbath I spoke to them of the object to be accomplished by proper order in the church, and how a church should move to be indeed a house of God, and grow into "a holy temple in the Lord." First-day at 11 A. M., we met and organized the church. Some forty members united together to form the church, and more will unite soon.

Bro. D. B. Rickey was elected elder and John I. Tay, Deacon, and these were immediately ordained to these important offices, Bro. Geo. Manuel was elected church clerk.

J. N. L.