Fresno and Tulare Counties.
By G. D. Ballou
FROM Jan. 16 to March 4 I was with churches and scattered brethren in the vicinity of Burrough Valley, Fresno, Lemoore, Selma, and Temperance. I labored at all these places to impress upon the people the importance of giving their time and thought more fully to the work of the Third Angel's Message. I found many of the brethren given to making great plans for worldly business and leaving the cause of God almost entirely out of their plans. I labored to correct this and other evils and to instruct and encourage all whom I met. I tried to impress upon all that their own eternal welfare depends to a great extent upon the efforts put forth for the salvation of others. At every place I found something encouraging and something to commend. But there is great danger to the youth and children unless, by example and precept, they are led to forsake and despise the foolish fashions and customs of society. At Selma I organized a Tract and Missionary Society of ten members. Nearly all of this company have recently come from the East, and they will become earnest workers in the cause here. I took 16 subscriptions for the SIGNS and nearly 500 for the American Sentinel during this trip.