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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 10.

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North Pacific Mission.

By I. D. Van Horn

THE result of our effort with the tent at Dayton has been good for so small a place. Sixteen have signed the covenant to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. They have meetings every Sabbath.
When I closed the tent-meeting there, I stated that I designed going immediately to the Willamette Valley. As soon as this was known, the Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, of Walla Walla, was sent for to give the ‘other side’ of the Sabbath question. Accordingly an appointment was given out for him. My wife being sick, we did not go down to Western Oregon as we designed, and I immediately made arrangements to reply to him at Dayton. The Methodists freely opened their meeting-house to him, but refused it to us. The result has been to secure us many friends, while they have wounded their own cause. The Baptists also have made a small effort against us; but the people in Dayton have read their Bibles too much lately to be satisfied with assertions.
Last Friday, the 6th, I went to Dayton again, and held four meetings on Sabbath and first-day, and I found the interest still good. I heard of others who were commencing to keep the Sabbath, but they have not yet identified themselves with us. The work is not done there yet.
The way has been opened, and a very urgent call made, for me to hold a series of meetings in the Grand Round Valley. This valley lies on the east side of the Blue Mountains, about sixty miles south-east of Walla Walla. A wealthy, influential man of that place came to see me expressly to have me go there. He owns a meeting-house in one place, and the old Court House in La Grande, and he said both of these houses were open to me as long as I might wish to hold meetings. I begin to think that it was on account of these two circumstances, the work at Dayton and the opening in the Grand Round Valley, that the Lord hedged up the way, and hindered me from going to the Willamette Valley by my wife’s sickness. She is getting better now, and I am in hopes soon to be out in the field at work again. The Lord is good to us, and we have some precious seasons waiting before him in prayer. We believe he is leading us.
Our post-office address is still Walla Walla, Wash. Ter.—I. D. VAN HORN, in Signs of the Times.