LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
By S. N. Haskell
WE met with the friends at Los Angeles, Sabbath and first-day, November 19, 20. They have a neat meeting-house capable of seating about two hundred and fifty. Their regular Sabbath-school attendance is about sixty. The anteroom and gallery make it very convenient for the different classes of the little ones; while the main body of the house is occupied by those attending the Bible class. The Sabbath-school was quite interesting. All seemed anxious to make it so. At the close of the discourse Sabbath morning, we had a social meeting in which nearly all took a part. Sunday afternoon we rode in search of water for baptism. As we rode up to the place previously used for that purpose, notwithstanding, there was sufficient to have dipped up half a pailful and poured upon an individual, or to have sprinkled a hundred, yet we could but think there was much force in John's baptizing in "Ænon near to Salim because there was much water there." However, water was found and Sister Smith was baptized. To sustain the work here, it is necessary that labor be put forth in the surrounding country. There are small places where school-houses could be obtained, or a tent be pitched. If additions could thus be made it would give permanency to the work here. A good work has commenced and must not be left. Many of our churches are weakened by the members moving away, and because proper efforts are not put forth to strengthen the things which remain, and secure additions to their numbers. May God bless the few here and add to their numbers of such as will be an honor to the cause.