p. 382 | Santa Rosa, Cal by W. M. Healey

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1878

Santa Rosa, Cal.

By W. M. Healey

OUR meetings here closed for the present last night, although we hope to be able to occasionally meet with the church here, as there is quite a good interest manifested by some who have not yet identified themselves with us.

The labor here has resulted in fifty-three persons signing the covenant; eighteen have been baptized, and several others have united with the church. Although most of these persons are poor, they have pledged over one hundred dollars systematic benevolence for 1879.

The recent discussion here has given us many friends, and while I am of the opinion that discussions should be avoided rather than sought after, yet I feel that the truth often gains a glorious victory when forced to meet error in public debate. Such was the case here.

I feel the need of a few days' rest before entering a new field. I came here quite unwell, but God has been good and given me strength, so that I have averaged a sermon a day for about seventy days, and then held a two weeks' discussion, besides being able to visit much of the time from house to house. December 16, 1878. W. M. HEALEY.