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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 20.

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SANTA BARBARA, CAL.

By E. A. Briggs

I HAVE been holding meetings for several weeks in this place, and striving to encourage and build up our brethren here. Eight new converts have also signed the covenant since my arrival, including one family who live at a distance. One Italian and his family attended the services regularly, though they understood very little of the preaching. However, in conversation I made them understand what I had preached, every point of which they received with perfect confidence. The cause of their confidence was this: they knew that the Catholics were not godly, and that they had cruelly persecuted some Piedmontese (Waldenses) who were godly, obeyed the Bible, and kept Saturday as their day of rest and worship. When they saw that we kept the seventh-day Sabbath, they concluded that we belonged to the same godly people.
My post-office address hereafter will be Garden Grove, Los Angeles County, Cal., as I now go to that place to engage in tent work.
E. A. BRIGGS.
May 9, 1889.