VACAVILLE AND FAIRFIELD, CAL
DECEMBER 14, we went to Vacaville, where we spent one week holding meetings and visiting the brethren. A goodly number of them signed the tithing pledge. The V. M. Society organized some years ago was revived, new officers elected, and a club of thirty-three Signs taken. Some members of this church were disaffected because credentials were not given to Eld. B. A. Stephens at the last session of the California Conference; but upon an explanation of the case, a vote was unanimously passed, endorsing the course of the Conference in his case. It was his duty to have attended the Conference and had his case investigated then, instead of waiting until it was over, and then trying to array churches against the Conference of which they are a part. Why will our brethren allow their sympathies to be aroused in favor of wrong, and decide upon a case when they know only one side of it, and thus be led into trial? We found the temperance cause here being agitated by quite an interesting American Health and Temperance Club. The citizens are also waking up to the work, and called a meeting to decide upon the best measures to advance the cause. We presented our organization to them, and the leading temperance men of the place voted to unite with us in this work. We left the church in quite good condition, and pray for the blessing of God upon them. We spent two days in Fairfield, and found a few keeping the Sabbath, and others interested from the labors of brethren Briggs and Howard. M. C. ISRAEL.
W. M. HEALEY.