GOOD NEWS FROM BATTLE CREEK AND OAKLAND; GRAND SUCCESS.
By James White
We are happy to learn from W. C. W. that the Christmas tree at Battle Creek, Mich., bore fruit in the form of cash amounting to more than seven hundred dollars. This is better than we expected. But we are astonished to learn from J. H. W. that the Oakland, Cal., church have done even more. Its numbers are about one-third the Battle Creek church, and most of these are very poor. There is not a tithe the property in the Oakland church that there is in the Battle Creek church, and yet their tree bore one hundred dollars more than the Battle Creek tree. If Battle Creek has done better than we expected, Oakland has done BEST. It is understood everywhere that California is a grand State for fruit; but that one tree in mid-winter should produce fruit to the value of more than eight hundred dollars!! Astonishing? Indeed it is. Hold the fort? We imagine we hear an affirmative response from all true hearts, not only all along the Pacific slope, from San Diego on the south to British America on the north, but from every part of our good country. The debts shall be lifted from these two houses, built for God, at the two great centers of the work. We wait with happy solicitude for full reports from all parts of the wide field. When these houses shall be free from debt, a pamphlet for each will be published, containing the names of the donors and the amount each has given, and a copy will be furnished to each donor free. JAMES WHITE.