Watsonville, California by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 27, 1874

Watsonville, California.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

I came to Watsonville, California, Oct. 1, and after working at farming about two months, I found my health sufficiently recovered to begin speaking again. So I hired a hall, and began meetings Dec. 12. The rainy season had now well set in, and I had plenty of mud and rain and dark nights to begin with. Yet a few came out, from fifteen to twenty the first week, from twenty to thirty the second week, about forty the third week, and from sixty to one hundred and sometimes two hundred now.

Though I have now given a full course of lectures, most of my present congregation have heard only upon the nature of man. I shall now begin back again for their benefit. Twelve have come out upon the Sabbath, and we have a Sabbath-school of over forty. The whole town is greatly stirred about these things, so that it is nearly the whole talk on the streets. The Methodist minister has helped us by preaching against the Sabbath. Others also are trying their hand at it. We hope for a few more souls here yet. Have obtained seventeen subscribers for the Review, and sold about $30.00 worth of books. I now hope by the help of God to be able to labor again as in the past. We are located here for the present.

Jan. 12, 1874. D. M. CANRIGHT.