Good News from Southampton, England.
By Editor
THE following from Brother Durland is copied from a postal sent by him to Brother Butler. It is dated April 2:— "I am still holding meetings here. I had the largest congregation last night that I have had since I have been here. Our Sabbath-keepers were obliged to give most of the room to those from without, and stay out on the stairway. Two have begun to keep the Sabbath, and four or five more are just on the turning point. I cannot see how I can close yet. I feel that a few more meetings may help these souls to decide. I baptized four yesterday. We had a nice place at the Baths. The place was about thirty feet wide and eighty feet long, made of stone and cement. We can have the water any desired depth. Everything passed off quietly. "There were two more who we expected would go forward, but they were not quite ready; I think we can have another baptism by the time you come back; if I am not disappointed we shall have five or six at that time. "You can imagine how we are crowded when I tell you that we have less than forty chairs, and have about forty-six to forty-eight in our Sabbath-school. I have tried to get a larger room, but have not found anything yet that we can reach. "I am anxious to get into a new field soon. Brother Sargent is anxious for me to go over to the Isle of Wight. He and his family are the only Sabbath-keepers on the island. I think I shall go over there and try it as soon as I can leave here. My courage is good. I feel that the Lord is good." [No one should be very anxious to go to another place while having so good a prospect of good results where he is as Brother D. here presents.] Since the above, we have received the following note from Brother John, concerning the work in England:— "We are now working early and late to get out the first number of The Present Truth. We of course will use it as our mission paper. I think I can retain most of my regular subscribers for the SIGNS. I will do my best for it. Many times has it cheered us in our work, and we hope to so live that it may do so still. "From the way things are shaping here, it seems evident that the work must rapidly advance in the near future. Three more have lately commenced to observe the Sabbath. We are of good courage. "When we remember the pleasant meetings of the past with our friends in America, we long for the grand meeting at the marriage supper of the Lamb. *May the Lord help us all to be faithful until Jesus appears."