Return to Oakland by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1886

Return to Oakland.

By Editor

AFTER an absence of ten weeks we returned to our work in Oakland, arriving January 3. Of our many trips across the continent, we consider this one the most enjoyable. We do not wish to institute comparisons between the different railroads; all have treated us with courtesy, several kindly offering us the benefits of clergymen's and editors' rates. Of course we chose to go the route which our company had selected, and all the company will hold the "Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific" road in kind remembrance for their excellent accommodations and favors. Our entire route was via the Michigan Central, Rock Island, Union Pacific, and Central Pacific. We could not ask better treatment than we received throughout. We left Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, December 29, and arrived in Oakland within five days of travel. The weather also was good; but of course we find the best in Oakland. Every trip East convinces us more and more that the climate here is unequaled. California has been having some cold weather of late—quite severe frosts in some places. But the calla lilies are in full bloom in the gardens in Oakland, which is sufficient proof that what Californians call cold weather does not bear much resemblance to the cold weather of the Eastern States.

While there is general good health at the office, we are very sorry to find our efficient assistant, "E. J. W.," prostrated with brain fever. He has overworked in our absence, and was taken down the day we left Battle Creek, and is not yet able to sit up. As "A. T. J." must soon return to the College, we find an unusual amount of labor awaiting us. We intend that the American Sentinel shall be published on time, the first of next month. The Health Journal will be published February 15, or the middle of the month.

We return to our work with good courage and with the deepest gratitude for divine favor and protection in our journeying and our work in the East. We know no one who has greater reason to thank God for his mercies than ourself. We do not regret that we find much that we must do—we greatly rejoice that God so graciously favors us with health and strength to do so much. We ask the prayers of all friends and well-wishers of the work, that these mercies may be continued to us, that in this time of need the work be not hindered.