We have now been here over one month, and the interest is better than at any previous time, and the attendance fully as large. Have sold over $50 worth of books, and obtained quite a number of subscribers for the Signs. Over twenty have embraced the Sabbath. We had a cheering Sabbath meeting yesterday. The friends were over from San Jose. About sixty in all were out, most of whom took part in social meeting. Besides these, a large number of the leading citizens and wealthy men are deeply interested. We see no prospect of getting away from here very soon.
A few bigoted men who had the control of the public plaza, where our tent was pitched, stirred up a fuss and compelled us to move our tent. The charge was that we were stirring up the people, dividing families, &c. This action created indignation against them on the part of the candid people of the place. A large number of the leading citizens and influential men turned out and helped us move the tent; and then attend the meetings themselves, and influence their friends to come and hear us; so that now the interest is larger than before. So this mean persecution has turned rather to the advancement of the cause.
We are of good courage and freedom in the work. Bro. Cornell has left us and gone to labor in Lake Co., and so I am laboring alone with the tent. D. M. CANRIGHT. Santa Clara, Cal., Sept. 6, 1874.