Oakland by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1875

Oakland.

By John Norton Loughborough

At our meeting in Oakland, Sabbath, May 29, our hall was nearly filled with attentive hearers, mostly Sabbath-keepers. The Lord gave especial freedom in speaking the word. At the close of the discourse four more were received into the church; one by letter from the Napa church, two by vote, and one, a Dane, on profession of the truth and baptism.

At the close of the service we repaired to Merritt's Lake, East Oakland, where six were buried with Christ in baptism. Two of these were cases of re-baptism, and four, those who had recently embraced the truth, one of them the Danish brother mentioned above. And thus the work is gaining ground at this important point. J. N. L.