Middletown, Lake Co., Cal.
By William M. Healey
I commenced a course of lectures here two weeks ago yesterday, and have given seventeen discourses. There has been much to attract the attention of the people, as they have had political meetings from three to four times a week, with the meetings of Grangers, Good Templers, Odd Fellows, and Free Masons, besides dances, shows, etc. We also found certain parties here that seemed to think it their duty to go about the place and prejudice the people against us, telling them that we were a branch of the Mormon church, that we had the time set for the Lord to come next month, that we claimed to be the only ones who believed in the second coming of Christ, and that all who have not belonged to our church are lost, also some other statements equally false. But notwithstanding all the opposition Satan has brought to bear, we have had a very good attendance, and two families came out and kept last Sabbath. We hope for more. Pray for us.