Napa and St. Helena by S. Brownsberger

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jun 14, 1883

Napa and St. Helena.

By S. Brownsberger

In compliance with the resolution adopted at the recent annual meeting of the stockholders of Healdsburg College, that as far as possible during the summer vacation, the teachers visit the churches in the California Conference in the interests of the College, I met with the Napa Church, Sabbath June 2. In the forenoon the Sabbath-school, and the usual religious service were held. In the afternoon there was a special meeting in the interests of the College.

On the day following I visited several families. I spent the following Sabbath, June 9, with the church at St. Helena. As the families composing this church live from one to seven miles distant from the place of meeting, and the weather was exceedingly hot, it was thought best to hold but one meeting; accordingly the time for the usual service was devoted to the college.

I am satisfied that the resolution referred to above is a wise one, and if carried out with the spirit in which it was first recommended, it cannot fail to give a new impetus to the work on this coast. An intimate relation should be formed and maintained between the Missionary field and the College, and the Church should be well informed in regard to it.

The College must be made a recruiting station for the missionary field, and to this end it needs the sympathy, co-operation, and prayers of the church.

I expect to be with the church at Vacaville Sabbath, June 16. S. BROWNSBERGER. St. Helena, Cal., June 11, 1883.