THE CHINESE.
“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”
Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.
President: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. Vice-Presidents: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.
Directors: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.
Secretary: Rev. W. C. Pond. Treasurer: E. Palache, Esq.
OUR WORK AT THE CENTER.
REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.
I find that for many months I have had little to say about our work in San Francisco and Oakland. I invite the readers of the Missionary to take a look, with me, at these central points.
Oakland is more to San Francisco, than Brooklyn is to New York. The ocean breezes are so tempered in crossing San Francisco Bay, that a very perceptible change of climate takes place, and Oakland is able to boast of a genial air and a clear sky on many days in summer, when San Francisco is shrouded in fog or swept by heavy, dust-laden winds. It has the aspect, to a very good degree, of a large inland city in New England—Springfield or Hartford, for example. There is a good deal about it not yet very heavenly, but, when compared with the bustle and drive of affairs, both climatic and human, on this side of the Bay, it seems, like Auburndale, Mass., to be a sort of “Saint’s rest.” It is constantly skimming the cream off our San Francisco churches, so that when a brother and sister have fairly come to their places as pillars here in the metropolis, we expect soon to hear that “they are thinking of moving to Oakland.”