Jefferson District, Cal.
By J. D. Rice
Began meetings in this place the 6th inst. Have given ten discourses on the Second Advent, Nature of Man, and the United States in Prophecy. The way is now fully opened for a consideration of the claims of God's law and Sabbath. We have had a fair attendance, for a country-school district, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather. The people are quite friendly, and provide for all our temporal necessities. They manifest a desirable interest, and seem to feel that they are being fed with "meat in due season;" and they are quite generally willing to be fed. As one gentleman said to me, "I have learned more in one night hearing you preach, than in three months from these other ministers." We hope, by God's blessing, to see a goodly number raised up in this place, to be living witnesses for God and his truth. We desire an interest in your prayers. Williams, Cal., March 13, 1882.