p. 426 | COQUILLE CITY, OREGON by Wm. Potter, J. C. Bunch

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 27.

COQUILLE CITY, OREGON.

By Wm. Potter, J. C. Bunch

At the close of our good camp-meeting at East Portland, it was decided that we should go to Coos County, Or., to spend the season in assisting the little churches already established, and holding tent-meeting as the way might open. We arrived here June 5, and pitched our tent. We held our first meeting June 12, with seventy-five in attendance. Have now given twenty-one discourses, with an average attendance of fifty-two. Those that attend give good attention, and some have decided that we have the truth.

The people seem distant and it is not easy to get access to labor for them privately. The truth has been partially presented here before, and many have decided against the truth or are so prejudiced that we fail to get them to listen. Picnics, excursions, celebrations, and dances call the majority and only leave a few to listen to the present truth. This is a place of about five hundred people.

We have been called to give three funeral discourses since coming here, and have tried to use these occasions wisely to get truth before the people. Expect to remain until, by the Lord's help, we have done all we can to present the message. We plead earnestly with the Lord, and ask the prayers of all, that with you we may be able to gather sheaves for the heavenly garner. WM. POTTER, J. C. BUNCH.

June 28, 1887.