p. 108 | Visit to Healdsburg by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1883

Visit to Healdsburg.

By Editor

LAST week we took a hasty visit to Healdsburg. Our call there was very short, but very gratifying to us. We found Sister White in good health, and of good courage. She is making good progress in her work on Volume Four of Spiritual Gifts. She has efficient assistants, and is very pleasantly situated for her work.

We cannot imagine a more beautiful scene than is presented from the windows of her study; the combination of valley and mountain, vineyard and orchard, is truly pleasing to the eye. Those who are interested in her work, and are acquainted with her love for the beautiful in nature, will be pleased to hear of her favorable situation.

The unusually cold weather somewhat hindered the work on the new building known as the boarding house; but the material for finishing has been so prepared that it can be pushed forward with great expedition when the plumbing is done and the plastering finished. It was prudently considered better to delay the plastering than to finish it in weather which was not favorable to doing a first-rate job. The whole building is inclosed and presents a fine appearance.

The prospects of the school are bright, and Professor Brownsberger is of excellent courage. The enrollment of pupils is 117, and the regular attendance slightly less. The instruction given in the school is fully adequate to the wants of all the pupils; Bible history is very properly made the foundation of instruction in all history, and this comprises all the study of the Bible that the most advanced can take in connection with their other studies. We are highly gratified with the progress made in school matters in California in the last year.