RIVERA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CAL.
By E. A. Briggs
I HAVE been holding meetings for a month at this place in a hired hall, and the people of the neighborhood have given a fair hearing to the discourses delivered. A well-known minister from a neighboring city was called to Rivera to vindicate the religious observance of Sunday. But after we had made a public interchange of facts and arguments on the Sabbath question, it was found that seven adult persons were resolved hereafter to observe the seventh-day Sabbath. These individuals will attend the Norwalk church, which is but a short distance from here; and last Sabbath the Norwalk brethren were rejoiced to see three persons baptized into their church. The Adventists of this district are waking up to the importance of the canvassing work. Seven of them have recently started in this good labor, some of whom are selling twelve thousand pages of our religious books per week. May the Lord bless all branches of his work. My post-office address hereafter will be, Santa Barbara City, Santa Barbara County, California.