WOODLAND AND ARBUCKLE, CAL.
By J. D. Rice
Met with the Woodland church in their quarterly meeting, Jan. 3, 4. Preached four times with very good audiences. Several more took advanced steps with their brethren on the health and temperance, tithing, and T. and M. work. There is room for others to improve in these respects. We hope all will bear their portion of the burdens and "come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty." With Bro. Morton we labored at Arbuckle from Dec. 27 to Jan. 14. Six more signed the covenant, making seventeen there in all. All seem very much encouraged, and knit together by the bonds of "brotherly love" are trying to prepare for the Judgment. A V. M. Society was organized, with Sr. Mary Whybark as president, and Sr. Lizzie M. Adams as secretary. A club of forty Signs is taken. Most all take Good Health and Signs, and some the Review and Herald. Three families have ordered Sr. White's works, making four complete sets in the church. Twenty signed the various temperance pledges; thirteen of these are on the "teetotal" pledge. All our old members have signed the tithing pledge; the new ones have had no opportunity as yet to do so. One of us will return shortly to perform more labor with them. We also expect to begin meetings soon in Freshwater school-house, a few miles from Williams. J. D. RICE.
Williams, Jan. 15, 1880.