California Laborers Abroad
By J. O. Corliss
I HAVE just returned home from London and Birmingham. At London I met those of the California laborers who are there pursuing their preparation for the fields “beyond.” The Brethren Bond are studying Spanish, with the promise of success. Their teacher in this language gives good reports of their work from time to time. Brother Marchus is also studying with a view to working outside of the English tongue. Brother Delmer Baker is doing good work, both in school and in the canvassing field. A letter just received from Brother C. T. Everson states that he is making preparations for the prosecution of vigorous work in Rome. He has already secured a house in which to live, at 79 Via Napoli, at which place he would be glad to hear from his friends. He says that he likes Rome and its people, and is pleased in every way with his chosen field of labor. We shall look for early reports of success from him and his lady workers. I have heard nothing from Brother Gauterau since he left England for France. It may be that something will be at hand from him by the time of my next report. Elder Ballenger reports that Brother Halladay is doing good work in Wales. Brother D. A. Parsons reports from Hull that he has all the cottage work he can do, and that he has a large and growing congregation each Sunday night. He looks for a harvest of souls from his effort in that place. Brother McCord seems to be having some success in Birmingham. Seven persons were baptized by him last Sabbath, the fruit of earlier work by Elder Haughey, which has been followed up and matured through the labor of Brother McCord. The British Union Conference Council which I attended in London suggested that I spend the rest of the month of March in Belfast, Ireland, to assist Brother Hutchinson and his workers in that field. Immediately following the general meeting in Ireland, which will be held the last week of March, I have been invited to attend the general meeting for Scotland, to be held in Glasgow the first week in April. Then, if present plans hold, I expect to remove my family to Leicester, and make preparations for a summer's tent campaign in that place, which has a population of over 211,000. The work in which I am now to engage is the first I have been permitted to do for six weeks, on account of an accident which confined me to my room. I am now recovering strength slowly, and hope to be able soon to do my usual amount of work. As near as I can learn, all the California workers are contented in their new field. For my own part, I feel as much at home here as in the States. I see no reason why this is not an excellent field in which to labor for souls.—J. O. Corliss, in Pacific Union Recorder.