The North Pacific Mission.
We have good news from the tent meeting in the Walla Walla Valley. A church of more than thirty is now fully organized, and others are being received each week by baptism. We have received a very kind and godly letter from father Maxon, relative to the work there, from which we take the following:— “I thank God whom I serve, that my lot is cast with a people that God has chosen to present the last message. My heart, and I believe those of my brethren and sisters in Walla Walla, is in this work to push it on with all our ability. I shall do all I can to make our beloved Elder and his wife comfortable and happy, and to see that they shall lack for nothing. The tent you sent us has been pitched in the city of Walla Walla, and we begin to see the fruit of Elder Van Horn’s labor here, in bringing out whole families upon the truth, besides old men, and younger men and women.” Bro. J. F. Wood, in a letter to Elder Loughborough of May 18, says:— “We are greatly encouraged. While opposition rages, the interest to hear keeps up. The tent has been set about four weeks. The prevailing sentiment is that such preaching never was listened to here before. The people are demanding that the clergy show up their side, as they claim we are in error. But so far they are silent. Brother Van Horn is a worker. We are not at all ashamed of him as a representative of our ministers. He has preached every night, and twice every Sabbath and Sunday, since the tent was pitched, and yet he holds out all right.”