Meetings in Oakland by John Norton Loughborough; Dudley Marvin Canright

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 14, 1875

Meetings in Oakland.

By John Norton Loughborough; Dudley Marvin Canright

THE Conference Committee decided at the time of the State quarterly meeting that it was best to give another course of lectures in Oakland. Accordingly, 5,000 bills were circulated, stirring notices put in all the dailies, a bulletin board placed in the principal thoroughfare of the town, a large lighted transparency hung evenings in front of the hall, and meetings opened with a good audience on the evening of January 7. Already six lectures have been given. There is good attendance, good interest, and books are taken quite freely, and we look for good results, with God's blessing. Believing in advertising, we put out to-day 5,000 more bills, advertising spiritualism for this evening.

The cause is still onward in San Francisco and vicinity. Two more kept their first Sabbath in San Francisco last Sabbath. They were persons who had heard at the tent and read our books. They thought they would write to their parents in Iowa to see what they thought of it, when, lo! they learned that their parents in Iowa had just heard a course of lectures, and had come out on the truth there. So the truth goes.

Bro. Knud Brossen called last week on a Danish family, in Alameda county, who had read some Danish tracts, talked and prayed with them. They took their stand, and kept last Sabbath for the first.

We had a most interesting baptism in Merritt's lake, Oakland, last Sunday morning. Four candidates, but representing four different nations; one Russian, one German, one Swedish lady, who embraced the truth by reading the Harold and Swedish tracts in Sweden. She moved to San Francisco and married a Swedish brother here. She is now a member of the San Francisco church. She and her husband are sending documents and letters to Sweden. The other candidate was an estimable English sister. After baptism, we joined in singing the verse,

"Let every kindred, every tribe on this terrestrial ball," &c.

God blessed. Praise his name. Thus steadily on the cause advances. J. N. L. & D. M. C.