Humboldt County, California.
By Wm. Ings.
SINCE coming to Humboldt County, I have visited the friends in Ferndale, Arcata, and Dows Prairie. Those that attended our good camp-meeting at Eureka were greatly benefited; it has inspired in them a greater love for the truth. At Dows Prairie I organized a T. and M. society of eleven members. A club of thirty SIGNS was taken, and a sufficient amount was willingly pledged to meet their obligations. Sister H. Johnson was appointed librarian. I never saw a people more desirous of taking hold and learning how to work than this company. They are young in the faith, having been brought out by Elder McClure last winter. They are now building a house of worship. I spent one Sabbath with the friends at Arcata. They also have a house of worship nearly ready for occupation. Considering the small number, and their limited means, they have done nobly in erecting a house that will do credit to the cause. At all the places visited I found quite a number very anxious to attend our school, and there will be quite a representation there from this county. Meetings at Eureka have been continued in the tent since the camp-meeting, and are well attended, about three hundred being in attendance last Sunday night. Brethren McClure and Kent are in charge. The influence of the camp-meeting has given us favor with the people, and they are desirous of seeing a house of worship erected by our people. One man, not of our faith, without solicitation offered $50, and in a short time $370 was pledged. Subscription papers are now in circulation, and no doubt before this is read the building will be commenced. Over sixty were in attendance at the Sabbath-school last Sabbath, and the work is not ended yet. Brother Lamb is laboring at school-houses adjacent to Eureka, and his labors have not been without fruit. I have sold fifty-two volumes of Testimonies and received a goodly number of subscriptions for our periodicals during my stay of four weeks, and have felt quite at home among these new friends, and I shall look back with pleasure on my visit to Humboldt County. My address will be Stockton, Cal., until October 1; after that, 914 Laguna St., San Francisco.