ELDER VAN HORN reports favorably from Walla Walla. In a letter of June 25th to Elder Loughborough he says:—
“I rejoice with you in seeing the progress of the work on this coast. I am much interested in the establishment of the cause in Oakland. I hope and pray that a strong church of good and faithful men and women may be raised up there, that shall be able to guard the publishing interest that is now started there. I am much pleased with the appearance of our new paper, and shall pray and work for its support. I believe with all my heart that the Lord is leading Bro. White in his work on this coast.
“The way things have shaped here makes it necessary to keep the tent here in Walla Walla city for some time yet. Should we take it down and move to some other point, the harvest coming on soon would give us but a small attendance, and that would leave the friends here no place to meet. Then the ministers of the place are now preaching opposition sermons on the Sabbath and immortality questions, and were not the tent here we should have no place to call the people together to reply. Then I think we are doing more good here than we could in a new place just now, for some new ones start out almost every week.”
There is still due us of the $1,000 for this mission, the sum of $297 35, which we shall be glad to receive from the friends of the cause as they regard it their duty to donate.