The Work in California by M. C. Israel

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1882

The Work in California

By M. C. Israel

SAN FRANCISCO

ELD. VAN HORN has been holding meetings about five weeks in the tent on the corner of Jones and Eddy Streets. The average attendance has been between one and two hundred. Not as large as we had hoped for, but there are some hopeful features in the work here. Many of these attend regularly, and several have decided to keep the Sabbath. Four signed the covenant yesterday (Sabbath), two of them joined the church, and there is reason to hope for quite a number more who are in the valley of decision. A good work is being done in the church at this place.

HOLLISTER

Eld. Ballou and Bro. Andrew Brorsen have been at this place about three weeks, and report that our views are not new there; for Elders J. H. Waggoner and D. M. Canright held a tent meeting there seven years ago. The attendance has been small, averaging only thirty or forty, but quite a number of these manifest deep interest. Three had already decided to keep the Sabbath. A man and his wife came twenty miles to attend the meeting and stayed two days. They were very anxious to learn more about the present truth, and gave an urgent invitation for the ministers to visit them.

One more at Salinas has decided to keep all the commandments, since the meetings there.

WILLETTS

Letters from Elder and Sister Rice give encouraging reports of the work there. Two had already fully decided to keep the Sabbath. The average attendance is better than it was at Ukiah. They visit Ukiah every week to help the little company raised up there. Ten have signed the Teetotal Pledge, and seven have become members of the Tract Society, and they had arranged to take sixteen copies of the SIGNS for missionary work.

Brn. Morrison and Lamb expect to pitch the new 24x36-foot tent soon at San Juan, a little village about ten miles west of Hollister.

Arrangements are being made to hold a tent meeting at Healdsburgh, commencing about the first of September and closing with the camp-meeting at that place.

M. C. ISRAEL. Oakland, Aug. 20, 1882.