p. 273 | NEVADA by W. M. Healey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1880

NEVADA.

By W. M. Healey

Last winter the brethren in this State sent us an earnest invitation to come and labor for them, if my health would permit, and at least to visit them, in the hope that the change of climate would prove beneficial to me.

In consultation with the California brethren it was decided best for me to come here and do what I could; returning to California in time for the camp-meeting. A return of the ague so prostrated me that I was not able to leave home until the 26th of May. Have now been here two weeks and preached twice in Reno, where there are some eight adults keeping the Sabbath. Have also met with the church at St. Clair station one Sabbath and first day, and am now holding meetings with them as circumstances permit.

These two companies were organized two years ago and have labored under difficulties and unhallowed influences from which causes some have fallen away and others grown cold. But there is a power in this message and it has held some honest conscientious souls here who seem willing to know and do their duty, in which we hope to be able to correctly instruct them. Some of these brethren are old acquaintances from California with whom we feel much at home and they are very attentive to our wants. May the Lord guide in his work here.

My health is again improving. Pray for us.

W. M. HEALEY.