Healdsburg and St. Helena.
By Editor
WE enjoyed a visit, too brief to satisfy our feelings, to the College in Healdsburg. Everything is prosperous and encouraging. The Professors are all doing their work with cheerful courage; the classes (for there are more than one) in Bible studies are deeply interested in their work. At the “Students’ Home,” as the North College Hall is sometimes called, everything is pleasant as usual. The manual labor done is enjoyed. Young men are learning tent-making, shoemaking, and printing. All who expect to labor with tents in any capacity are learning tent-making; this knowledge cannot fail to be of use to them in their future work. With one feature of the biblical work we are specially pleased. We found there elders of churches attending the school to receive the benefit of the Bible course. This is right. An elder of a church occupies an important position, and it is right that he should improve every opportunity and use every means to qualify himself to fill it acceptably. We expect to see the time when instruction of this kind will be given in every camp-meeting. This will prove a great blessing to the several Conferences. Cannot the North Pacific and Upper Columbia Conferences arrange to have a course of systematic Bible instruction at their coming camp-meetings? We will speak of this again. From Healdsburg we went to St. Helena, where we staid over one day. We have hope for the future of our beautiful Health Retreat. Though so often frustrated in our plans in the past, we believe the plans now laid will insure success. A present scarcity of means is a present serious obstacle, but we are quite confident that the help now secured and in prospect will be abundantly able to conduct it to the satisfaction of the stockholders and of patients and visitors. We hope that the friends of this institution will not forget it. Pray and work for its success.