Upper Columbia Conference.
By George W. Colcord
SINCE the 15th of January I have spent about seven weeks at six different places northeast of Walla Walla, besides work done in Walla Walla Valley. After holding encouraging services with the church at Dayton, Brother W. R. Jones and I were with the brethren and sisters at Pataha Prairie over two Sabbaths. Here trine immersion had been a stumbling block to several for years. We gave a Bible-reading on the subject, and all but one favored the Bible mode. One young man verbally confessed the truth, and another signed the covenant. At Colfax we gave two readings and I spoke six times. Four signed the covenant. On Dry Creek I gave a brief course of sermons, which, together with other labor at Garfield, and in families, resulted in five signing the covenant. Remembering the words of Isa. 58:1, 12, I spoke plainly, and, as partial results, tobacco was condemned, wrong habits in diet were confessed, and at one place three sisters together laid aside their jewelry. More than twenty-five in Whitman County have vowed to obey the truth, as results of labor done by Elder J. Bartlett and others since our last conference. Walla Walla, W. T., March 27, 1885.