As appointed elsewhere in this paper, our State Conference and State Missionary Society will hold their regular yearly business sessions for election of officers in connection with our camp meeting, October 1-12. There are steps to be taken by all our churches that they may be prepared to enter upon the business of those meetings without distraction.
The churches, all who have gone so far as to organize Systematic Benevolence and appoint a leader, are entitled to representation in our Conference by delegates; and according to our State Constitution they are entitled to delegates in the following ratio: One delegate for every church of twenty members, or less, and one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. These delegates are to be elected by vote of the church where they reside. Elect your delegates soon and write to the State Conference Secretary, Wm. Saunders, Woodland, Cal., stating the number of delegates you have elected, and he will send you blanks to be filled out for certificates of election of delegates. He will also send you at the same time for each church a blank entitled Church Report, and Financial Report. These are to be filled out by the Church Clerk and S. B. Treasurer, and sent by delegates to the Camp Meeting.
The church books and papers, and S. B. books from each church should be brought to the Conference, as it may be necessary to make reference to them. Each church should also furnish a report to the State Missionary Secretary, J. W. Bond, Healdsburg, Cal., of their missionary work for the last year up to October 1st, in order that he may prepare a report of the whole matter for the State Missionary meeting.
Each Church Treasurer should make it a point to have his S. B. accounts all square up to the first of October, and pay the same to the State Conference Treasurer, T. M. Chapman, as soon as convenient after reaching the Camp Ground, that he may be enabled to make his reports.
All the State Conference and Missionary officers should bring their books, blanks, and vouchers to the Conference.
The churches of Napa, St. Helena, and Red Bluff, are so far organized that they can be admitted into the Conference, and they should pass a written resolution to that effect, if they desire to unite, sending the same to the Conference by the hand of their delegates.
Let us be prompt in all these things, not doing "the work of the Lord negligently."
Cal. Conf. Committee.
One Hundred Dollars Each.
By Editor
It has been proposed to raise $20,000 to establish the press on the Pacific coast, in sums of $100 each. Smaller sums donated to the Pacific Mission can be used in the publication of the Signs of the Times, provided that two hundred persons will respond to this call. Let us hear from the brethren in California.
John Morrison, $100; Mrs E G White, $100; John Judson, $100; T M Chapman, $100; J N Loughborough, pd, $100; George Drew, pd, $100; James White, pd, $100; Jochim Pulse, $100; N S Raymond, $100; R Stickney, pd $40, $100; E H Root, pd, $100; A C Woodbury, pd, $25, $100; Brother L—e, pd, $100; P W Baker, pd, $100; Benj. N Berry, pd, $100; L McCoy, pd, $100; R M Pierce, pd, $100; J S Hart, pd, $50, $100; J Shiverly, pd, $20, $100; R A Hart, pd, $50, $100; W E Newcomb, $100; Mary Hare, $100; Noah Hodges, $100; Wm Harper, pd, $100; Thos Bickle, $100; W. O. Dungan, $100; Amy Dartt, pd, $100; Ivory Colcord, $100; John H. Bennett, $100; P. S. Marshall, pd, $100.
Donations for the Signs.
$5.00 EACH. J. D. Bandy, Sadie C. Reaser, M. Husted, W. Sutliff, Mary R. Stem (for Miss E. R. Stebbins, Mrs. Sarah Patch, Chas. Stem, Jacob Hankins, Mrs. Anna Dalrymple), A. W. Smith.
$2.00 EACH. Isabella Moore, R. H. Peck, N. L. Irving, Miss H. A. Steinhaur, L. A. Bramhall, M. H. Bates, Mary A. Howe, Joseph E. Wilson, George Cobb, Luman Carpenter, Wealthy McNitt, D. W. Clay, L. P. Bailey, Michael Fallon, J. Harrington, John Mavity, O. F. Metcalf, Cornelia E. Currier, Thomas Parker, Mrs. Mary McDaniel, Miss Rachael Good, Mrs. Harriet Poulson, M. A. P. Wheelock, F. W. Mace, H. B. Stratton, Z. W. Leach, Lewis Martin, S. N. Haskell, Mrs. A. H. Huntley, Mrs. L. M. Cottle, Lizzie Hornby, J. W. Rickett, E. W. Whitney.
$1.00 EACH. Milo Greenfield, Geo. F. Brown, Wm. Mallah, John Weaver, Addie Worster.
50 cts. EACH. James Best, Mrs. Eliza B. M. Eachron, Jas. M. Kenyon, D. J. West, G. J. Overshiner, H. D. Smith.
MISCELLANEOUS. Elisha Sharp $2.80, B. R. Holiday $2.20, Mrs. Joel Beech $1.25, S. Calder $1.50, S. J. Gardner $1.50, L. R. Chapel $2.50, Daniel Guile $3.
North Pacific Mission.
R. F. Andrews and wife $10, C. M. Shepard $3, D. W. Clay $3, W. P. Andrews $25, Martha A. Andrews $10, W. S. Harrington $5, Woods Bute $5, H. C. Miller $2, M. Fallon $1, L. R. and S. E. Chapel $2.50, W. Sutliff $5, D. C. Webster $5.
Still due of the $1,000 advanced, $133.07. Let it come in.
Quarterly Meetings.
For the next six months we appoint for the Quarterly Meetings as follows:—
Santa Rosa, August 28, 29.
Oakland, September 12, 13.
Napa, September 19, 20.
Saint Helena, October 17, 18.
Bloomfield, October 24, 25.
Woodland, October 24, 25.
Jan Jose, November 14, 15.
Healdsburg, November 21, 22.
San Francisco, December 12, 13.
Petaluma, December 19, 20.
Green Valley, Sonoma Co., Jan. 16, 17, 1875.
CAL. CONF. COMMITTEE.
California Conference.
The third Annual Session of the California State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, will be held in connection with the Camp Meeting, at Yountville, from Oct. 1st to 12th. The time of the first business session will be announced by the President, from the stand.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
JOHN JUDSON,
J. W. BOND.
} Cal. Conf. Com.
Cal. State Missionary Society.
The California State Missionary Society will hold its fourth Annual Session at Yountville, Cal., in connection with the Camp Meeting, from Oct. 1st. to 12th. The time of the first business session will be announced by the President, Eld. J. N. Loughborough, after Camp Meeting is opened.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
JOHN JUDSON,
J. W. BOND.
} Executive Com. of Cal. State Missionary Society.
NOTE.—Yesterday, Aug. 11, I visited and thoroughly examined our Camp Grounds. On Monday next Bro. Custer is to meet with others there and make a clearing of the poison oak vines from the camping ground. Ample room this year for camping tents in good shade.
NOTICE.—Those wishing tents 10x12, heavy drilling, $18.00 each, pitched on the ground, or sheet iron camp stoves, round, 16 inches wide, by 18 inches high, $2.00 each on the ground, write immediately, as these stoves and tents have to be made to order. It takes a little time to make them. We must have the orders soon. Direct all letters respecting the Camp Meeting to Eld. J. N. Loughborough, St. Helena, Napa Co., Cal. Let each Church inform us as soon as possible the number and size of tents they will send to Camp Meeting this year.
CAL. CONF. COMMITTEE.
We have received a list of eleven names from West Bolton, and Jericho Corners, Vt., with no name signed. Will the person sending the list inform us if conditions of Postal Law, in No. 5 of SIGNS, have been complied with?