M. H. BROWN by M. H. Brown

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 6, 1908

M. H. BROWN

By M. H. Brown

From California to North Carolina

THE time has come when I am to leave California for the South. I have been here fifteen years, and have enjoyed my work and associations very much. I have been treated with the utmost kindness and consideration, and while I know I am “going away from home,” and shall leave behind many warm personal friends, whose companionship I shall greatly miss, yet I shall find another home and kind friends in the sunny South. This has always been my experience when changing my field of labor, and I do not expect any different experience now.

My mind has been led to choose North Carolina as my new field of labor, and many providential circumstances have indicated that the Lord has guided us in our decision, and aided us in our preparations to go. At my request, I have been transferred in the regular way from California to North Carolina, and I go with the assurance that I shall have the prayers of my brethren for God's prospering hand to be with me in my future labors.

One great reason for this change is that I have felt that the South is a far more needy field than California. North Carolina has a larger population, only about one sixth as many ministers and churches, and only one fourteenth as many of our people, as California.

On account of my crippled condition, I am not able to do pioneer work, or do much traveling, hence my labors must be mainly local, and I know that what little I can do in the Lord's cause will count more, and be a source of more encouragement, in a needy field like North Carolina than in California. This and other considerations have led me to regard this change as in the line of duty, and I trust in the guiding hand of God for the days to come.

My post-office address will be Greensboro, N. C., until further notice.