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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 29.

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Meeting of State Sabbath-School Association.

By M. C. Israel; W. J. Bostwick

A MEETING of the State Sabbath-school Association was held in connection with the quarterly meeting of the State Tract and Missionary Society, July 20, 1879. Eld. S. N. Haskell presided.
During the session Bro. J. E. White made some excellent remarks in regard to the Sabbath-school work, in which he urged the use of the class contribution box as an important auxiliary to the Sabbath-school. As this mode of raising means for the support of the school had been tried with good results in the Oakland Sabbath-school, it was thought that its adoption by the other schools in the State would prove to them of great benefit. It was therefore
Voted, That the class contribution box be recommended for use in the various S. D. A. Sabbath-schools in the State.
The importance of the teachers' meeting was also discussed, and it was
Voted, That the adoption of the teachers' meeting be recommended to the various schools in the State.
No further business coming up for discussion, on motion the meeting adjourned.
We give below the reports of the various Sabbath-schools throughout the State, which will be found to be of interest to those who are engaged in forwarding the Sabbath-school work in the State.
REPORT OF CALIFORNIA SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1879.
Names of Schools Superintendents Membership Average Attendance No. under Fourteen No. over Twenty No. of Classes School held No. of "Instructors" taken New Members enrolled No. dropped Amount contributed
Oakland J. E. White 120 85 26 35 14 before 150 20 22 $13.90
Santa Rosa D. B. Guile 78 50 30 36 7 after 25 3 5 2.10
Woodland Chas. Chittenden 68 34 15 16 6 after 35 3 1 1.25
Napa Joseph Eggleston 55 48 14 26 5 after 50 8 5 12.50
Rocklin Griffin P. Davis 37 15 15 10 4 after 30 7 11 1.30
San Pasqual Unorganized 12 8 3 4 2 after - - - -
Lafayette J. D. Bandy 11 - - 7 1 after - - - -
Vacaville A. D. Benton 70 30 14 17 5 before 24 50 6 14.80
Bloomfield N. A. Young 41 20 21 20 5 before 18 2 1 1.00
Christine John Richardson 23 22 9 10 4 before 25 6 4 1.75
Guenoc J. S. Howard 25 12 7 16 5 before 10 3 - 5.00
Pacheco G. P. Sanford 17 12 3 8 4 before 12 - - -
Red Bluff J. Puls 32 20 4 7 2 before 10 2 - .75
Petaluma E. A. Chapman 52 57 17 22 4 before 50 5 - $54.35
St. Helena A. B. Atwood - 14 4 - 2 before - - - -
Total 17 405 195 242 71 14-2 449 129 51 -
M. C. ISRAEL, President, W. J. BOSTWICK, Secretary.
It often happens that we think least of the services of those who think most of their own abilities. Their self-consciousness and their anxiety to be regarded great and prominent, leads us to doubt and question whether sincerity is in them.