UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE.
BROTHER W. M. FEE is meeting with many interesting experiences in his field. He has made the largest single sale of the season, $27.50 worth of books to one person. THE fall term at Walla Walla College (College Place, Wash.) opened with an enrollment of seventy-eight. Others have entered since, so that there are now about ninety-five in attendance. More will attend as soon as harvest and the fall work are over. BROTHER ROPER sends in for 500 notification cards, and places an order for 345 copies of “Daniel and the Revelation.” He has five weeks yet to canvass, and expects to place nearly 600 books among the people of Morrow and Gilliam counties, Ore., this season. Brother Roper is having a rich experience, and is rejoicing in his chosen work. BROTHER GEORGE WALLACE, of Payette, who, by the way, contemplates active colporteur work next season, has ordered about 14,000 pages of the new tracts, as follows: 1,333 tracts, Words of Truth, No. 32; the rest, Bible Students’ Library, No. 167. Sisters Wallace and Vina L. Traner, of Emmett, Idaho, are sounding the alarm in Weiser and vicinity, by distributing the same, and extending cordial invitations to everybody to attend the camp-meeting. The Lord will greatly bless these earnest workers. FLETCHER, IDAHO.—The people here are very worldly. Many care nothing for the gospel; yet the Lord has given me success in working among them. In the handling of “Christ’s Object Lessons” there is a special blessing. As I have read passages from this book, or permitted the people to read, they have said: “That is the kind of religion I believe in. You may bring me one of those books.” No one but the Lord knows the final results that will be obtained by spreading these special truths among the people. I praise the Lord that He has led me to engage in this branch of His work. Wm. Steele. A RENEWED interest in the tract and periodical work is manifesting itself among many of our people. Union church has used about 10,000 pages of tracts in the last few weeks; others are waking up to present issues on a smaller scale. A number of our canvassers will scatter tracts during their delivery. Each one according to his several ability is called upon just now to put his shoulder to the wheel, and lift with all his might. “Christ’s Object Lessons, Marvel of Nations,” and small books should be sold by the hundreds for holiday delivery. Start at the work early, and in earnest. The Lord will bless your efforts, and bring success. OUR canvassers have reached almost to the $6,500 mark in book sales since spring camp-meeting; those who have promised to enter the field to canvass for the holiday delivery, can easily run these figures up to $10,000. Now keep your word, and do the work. Those who are delivering report one hundred per cent, and in some cases even more; there is ample proof that the Lord has great interest in the canvassing work, and that it is His chosen method of reaching the masses at this time. We would be glad to see twenty-five more canvassers begin work in this Conference in the next ten days. Good fields can be assigned. M. F. Hill. WARNER VALLEY, ORE.—In a personal letter to Brother F. M. Hill, Brother W. M. Fee says: “It has been over a week since I wrote you. In that time I have visited Warner Valley, Ore., making a drive, there and back, of ninety miles, stopping to exhibit my book at four or five places between. Of course, at each end of the drive I found good settlements. The territory which I thought would be the most unprofitable, has proved to be the best, as you will see by my report, one lady buying and ordering $27.50 worth of books, making my day’s sales reach $42.50. I spent Sabbath with Sister Frakes and family. She and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Flowers, and her daughter-in-law, are the only Seventh-day Adventist people in this whole country, and are doing what they can to keep the true light shining. I came within the radius of their light forty-five miles from them; and the closer I came, the brighter it grew. The people all speak of them as being good neighbors. Sister Flowers, although quite feeble, has a very active and clear mind for a person over eighty years of age. The younger Sister Frakes holds her Sabbath-school regularly with her three little children, though she has never seen an Adventist minister, and besides her two relatives I am the third Adventist she has ever met. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Frakes, has seen no other Adventists since becoming a believer. I found several earnest-minded women in that valley. Brother Wellington Frost spent considerable time there several years ago, and is responsible for much of the present interest in the message. This place should receive ministerial attention.”