In company with Elder Canright and Mrs. W., we have made a short visit with the brethren and friends at Santa Clara, Cal. Our Sabbath meetings, the 20th, were those of comfort and encouragement. The brethren came in from San Jose, which made little Harmony Hall look quite assembly-like. Mrs. W. spoke in the evening following, with freedom. These dear friends have been left almost alone since they embraced the Bible Sabbath at the Tent, last summer. Elders Canright and Loughborough have each made them only a brief visit. They are scattered, few in numbers, reduced by removals, and yet, under the meanest persecutions, have all stood firm. We may hope with confidence that those who, in their early experience of Sabbath-keeping can stand firm under such circumstances, will endure unto the end. When we labor with such, and become acquainted with their trials, and witness the influence which the word of God has upon them, when preached in the power of its simplicity, we become deeply interested in their welfare. Though trials may beset them at every step, there is no other way to secure the peace of God ruling in the heart here, and life eternal in the next world, than to go forward. Such should cast their lot fully in with our people in their efforts to build up the cause, and they should have preaching as often as the circumstances will possibly admit. First-day afternoon, Mrs. W. spoke to three hundred in Widney Hall with feelings somewhat depressed from weariness and want of proper ventilation. The attention was candid and good. The manner in which her name had been handled in public called out the people and gave her intelligent sympathy. God often turns such efforts to first-class advertising, and uses them in the furtherance of the gospel. In the evening we gave some of the reasons of our faith and hope to a less, but very attentive, audience. We were made to feel very much at home in the kind families of William Mendenhall and Isaac Thompson. God bless the brethren and kind friends at Santa Clara.