MEETINGS IN WOODLAND by Joseph Harvey Waggoner

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1880

MEETINGS IN WOODLAND.

By Joseph Harvey Waggoner

SABBATH and first-day, July 24, 25, I was in Woodland. I was in feeble health, and the change to the intense heat of that place was trying to me. I was told that the thermometer stood at 107, and I believed it.

I preached five times, and enjoyed much freedom in speaking, except the last time, when my strength failed. All seemed encouraged by the meetings. After an absence of over four years it was a real pleasure to me to meet with that church again, and it would have added to my pleasure to have accepted their invitation to remain some days and visit with them. But in my state of prostration, and the high temperature there, that was impossible.

I am confirmed in my conviction that I cannot succeed in trying to preach in this climate. I have taken no time to rest and recuperate since my sickness of last winter, and I find myself at this time again broken down. J. H. WAGGONER.