Colorado Conference by C. P. Haskell

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 29, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 29.

Colorado Conference.

By C. P. Haskell

After the close of the camp-meeting in Denver, Brother Ostrander, with one of the tents and a corps of workers, went to Cañon City, an enterprising place of some four or five thousand inhabitants. The State prison, which now contains over three hundred convicts, is located here. The brethren were well received at this place, and Brother Ostrander, by invitation, filled the desk in the penitentiary, and said that he never had a more attentive congregation. The warden purchased “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” “Man’s Nature and Destiny,” and “Marvel of Nations,” and told Brother Ostrander to have his men come down and feel perfectly free to leave any reading matter they chose, and to do all the missionary labor they felt like doing. At last accounts several in the city had commenced to keep the Sabbath according to the commandment.

The meetings, which, under the direction of Brother Pegg, were continued in Denver after the camp-meeting closed, resulted in enabling several to fully make up their minds to obey God; so that five were baptized in addition to those who went forward at the camp-meeting. A notice of this service was pleasingly made in one of the daily papers.

About the 20th of June, Brother Pegg and his associates took the tent and started for Fort Collins, in the northern part of the State. A communication from Brother Pegg to-day, states that they have a good interest. People are very friendly, and the invitations to visit are numerous.

All connected with the tent are of good courage. We believe if our brethren are fully consecrated to the work, the prayers which are ascending all over the State, that souls may be gathered, will not be in vain.

The Denver mission is just beginning to get down to work. The change in location, camp-meeting, etc., unsettled us for a time, but now again we are trying to work in earnest. Our morning school is particularly interesting. We have reason to be thankful for the success our workers are having, considering they have been but a few weeks engaged in the work. May God help the mission workers to be faithful. C. P. Haskell.

July 9, 1886.