p. 268 | WASHINGTON TERRITORY by G. W. Colcord

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

By G. W. Colcord

SINCE Jan. 15 I have spent about seven weeks at six different places north-east of Walla Walla, besides work done in Walla Walla Valley. After holding encouraging services with the church at Dayton, Bro. W. R. Jones and I were with the brethren and sisters at Pataha Prairie over two Sabbaths. Here trine immersion had been a stumbling block to several for years. We gave a Bible reading on the subject, and all but one favored the Bible mode. One young man verbally confessed the truth, and another signed the covenant.

At Colfax we gave two readings, and I spoke six times. Four signed the covenant.

On Dry Creek I gave a brief course of sermons, which, together with other labor at Garfield, and in families, resulted in five signing the covenant. Remembering the words of Isa. 58:1, 12, I spoke plainly, and, as partial results, tobacco was condemned, wrong habits in diet were confessed, and at one place three sisters together laid aside their jewelry. More than twenty-five in Whitman county have vowed to obey the truth, as results of labor done by Eld. J. Bartlett and others since our last Conference.

Walla Walla, March 27. G. W. COLCORD.