p. 69 | San Diego County by W. M. Healey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 9, 1882

San Diego County.

By W. M. Healey

I HAVE spent the past four weeks in this county. In San Pasqual Valley thirty-five miles northeast of San Diego, we have a church of fifteen members; and scattered through the county we find about as many more professed commandment keepers. About one-half of them hold membership in churches outside of this county. We visited a settlement twelve miles from San Pasqual and preached twice, with a good and attentive audience. We feel that the work ought to be followed up in that place and intend to visit them again this week.

We visited a Sabbath-keeping family fifty miles from here, who had never heard a sermon. We spent a few days with them, and on Sunday went with them to Potrero Valley, seven miles distant, and much of the way through the snow, where about half a dozen families live, and all turned out to listen to the preaching. About forty persons were present, and several of them urged us to return and hold more meetings with them. I felt sad as I bade them good-bye, and thought, will these souls ever have an opportunity to hear these all-important truths?

There are few places in the county where a very large audience can be gathered, and perhaps no place outside of San Diego City where a tent is needed. But scattered here and there through the mountains are honest and intelligent families to whom the last message would be as precious as to any of us.

Where are the reapers to wield “the sickle of truth” till all the wheat has been garnered in? All things indicate the end is near and shall it be said of all of us, “Well done”?

W. M. HEALEY.

Bernardo, California, January 29, 1882.