Letter from Wm. M. Healey.
By Wm. M. Healey
AFTER the quarterly meeting held in Oakland Jan. 2d and 3d, we went to Healdsburg, and gave a few lectures in our church at that place. Some of the ministers, at Healdsburg, took up some of the subjects upon which we spoke, and shed, what they called, light upon them. One of these, when speaking of Matt. 24th chap., said that the idea of the darkening of the sun, which took place in A. D. 1780, being a sign of the end, and supernaturally caused, was all folly. He said that the cause was the bursting of a volcano in some of the planets, and the smoke and ashes from it obscured the light of the sun! Suppose this to have been the cause, it would not prevent its being a sign of the end. But we read, from what we always supposed was good authority, such, for instance, as Noah Webster's dictionary, that the true cause of this phenomenon is unknown. But in Healdsburg we have a new light, which Webster never saw. I left Healdsburg, for Lake county, Jan. 28th. Have been at Lower Lake about a week, lecturing each evening to an audience, ranging from 20 to 50 persons, some of whom manifest considerable interest in hearing the truth. Lake County, Cal., Feb. 10, 1875.