North Pacific Mission by I. D. Van Horn

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 4, 1876

North Pacific Mission.

By I. D. Van Horn

We have just passed through our second quarterly meeting for 1876. It was one that has been a blessing to the cause here. It was well attended by the brethren from the different parts of the valley, and all seemed to take an interest in helping on the cause.

We have a T. & M. Society organized as far can be now, with some twenty-two members. Some good has already been done, but from this quarterly meeting on they will be prepared to extend the work a good deal. There are a few who stand out opposed to this work, but they may all work in after a while. Money is so hard to get that it cripples this and other branches of the work very much.

During the past winter we have been laboring to strengthen the work and get it in shape to leave this spring. We have succeeded well so far. We have formed an organization at Milton, Oregon, of seventeen members, and we are about to form another organization at Dayton, W. T. We start for that place to-morrow for that purpose.

We are laying plans to soon commence work in the Willamette Valley. We shall hope for greater success to crown our efforts there than here.

In our work in Dayton and vicinity the past two months, some fifteen have embraced the truth. If these come forward and join the church, as we think the most of them will, there will be enough for quite a little company.

We shall hope for health and strength to still continue our work in the cause of the Lord as the way may open before us.

I. D. VAN HORN.

Walla Walla, W. T., April 5, 1876.