Soledad, Monterey County, California.
By A. D. Benton
On the evening of January 18, we began meetings in this place, and up to the 16th of the present month thirty-three discourses have been given. Have distributed sixty copies of the SIGNS, and five hundred and thirty pages of tracts. The people have not been accustomed to religious meetings in this place, and do not attach much importance to them. Six signed the covenant, and two the Teetotal Pledge. Others are endeavoring to stop the use of tobacco. Bibles are being searched, and we pray that there will be a searching of hearts. We close our meetings for the present, with the expectation of visiting Salinas for a short time, and afterwards returning. A. D. BENTON,
J. G. HURLEY.