EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
By James White
ON the Sabbath following the Dayton camp-meeting I preached in Walla Walla. The sermon was followed by a spirited social meeting. It was a good day to all in attendance. Meeting also in the evening after the Sabbath. Sunday forenoon, by invitation of the leader of the Health and Temperance Club, I gave a temperance address in Milton. The meeting-house was packed full, and all listened with interest. I think some of our temperance clubs, and our churches also, lose much by failing to properly circulate our temperance tracts on such occasions, and also in the meetings of other temperance societies. This class of literature not only meets with no prejudice, but it disarms prejudice, and brings us before the people in a manner to interest them in our work. Riding part of the way through a heavy rain, we returned to Walla Walla, where I spoke in the evening. The congregation was not large, but larger than I expected, and I greatly enjoyed the privilege of setting before them the "blessed hope." This closed my work in Washington Territory. After a visit with Bro. Jones at the tabernacle of Bro. Colcord, I departed for the Willamette valley. Bro. Jones goes to Medical Lake, some distance north of Snake river, to hold a tent meeting; and Bro. Colcord, with Bro. Russel, will visit the churches and labor as Providence may direct. Altogether I feel hopeful for the cause in that Conference. Eld. C. is blessed with a faithful helper, who is untiring in her efforts to keep the missionary work in an orderly and prosperous condition. Some trouble has arisen from those who came in for the purpose of introducing their notions of trine immersion; but that element mostly left when it appeared that their effort would prove a failure. It is astonishing how tenacious some people will be of an opinion which is so clearly proved to be unscriptural. The relation of baptism to the burial and resurrection of Christ, as set forth in Rom. 6, shows, without the possibility of contradiction, that a single baptism is all that can with propriety be administered. To be baptized three times is not being buried with Christ into death, nor is a three-fold rising from the water any likeness of his resurrection. It seems that all who are moved by Scriptural reasons more than by prejudice must see this. With such clear Bible evidence it is not consistent for our churches to have fellowship for that error.295 The move made in coming forward on Sabbath afternoon at the camp-meeting was an important one. Besides several members of the Dayton church, and others in that section, brother and sister Nichols took an advanced step which we all trust will prove a blessing to themselves and to the cause in Milton. Wednesday, June 15, I reached the residence of Elder Van Horn in Beaverton, Oregon. Sister Van Horn has been much afflicted in health of late. She was very sick, dangerously so, during his absence to the Dayton meeting. Her physician urgently advises a change of climate. They intend to go to the sea-coast for a season, after the camp-meeting, with perhaps a longer journey afterward if her health will permit and the providence of God shall seem to direct. The Lord has graciously heard prayer in her behalf, and we confidently trust that she will be able to attend the camp-meeting next week. The month of June, thus far has been wet, and the weather is yet cloudy. But we look for the blessing of God in the coming meeting. Our prayer is for much of that wisdom which "is profitable to direct." Brother and sister Van Horn are trying to make their afflictions work for them by renewing their consecration to God and his work. May his blessing attend their steps. To-day, June 17, I go to Salem, to spend a few days before camp-meeting. I must express the satisfaction and gratitude with which I read a letter written by Eld. Loughborough, dated Bale, Switzerland, giving favorable account of the condition of Bro. Andrews. May our faith in a prayer-hearing God never fail. James White