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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 29, 1901

ARIZONA

By C. D. M. Williams; Mrs. C. D. M. Williams

BISBEE.—This is a mining camp of about 6,000 inhabitants, full of sin, infidelity, and backsliding. Some are ready to listen to the truth, but very few are ready to leave all and follow the Lord. We hold both Sabbath-school and Sunday-school.

The town is a narrow canyon about five miles long, with several little spur canyons. The mountains are quite steep. Most of the houses are built

on the mountainside, with stairs to go up to them. Yesterday we visited a sister, and went up only one hundred and sixteen stairs.

We hold Sabbath-school in one end of town and Sunday-school in the other. We have between twenty-five and thirty Bible readers, several of whom are keeping the Sabbath.

The miners work night and day, having three eight-hour shifts, consequently one third of them are asleep all the time, so in some places we have to change shifts when the men change. In other places we are compelled to stop the readings for one or two months, because the interest is not so good, and the work goes slowly. Our schools are also crippled in the same way, some not being able to attend for months at a time.

We need your prayers that we may be given great wisdom to know how to conduct the work in the right way, so as to reach as many as possible.

C. D. M. WILLIAMS, MRS. C. D. M. WILLIAMS. Sept. 21, 1901.