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Vol. 6
The Church
Fresent irath on the
XLIX.
Pacific Crast
During the sammer of 176 and the
following winter, in the North Pacific
field, Brethren Io Do Van Horn and ALT.
Jones were laboring 1m Oregon, west of
tie Cascade Mountains, principally in the
Willamette Valley,
Beaverton, and other points near hy were
Salem, Oregon City,
worked, mall of which places accessions
were omned tor the faith,
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In California, during the winter above
mentioned, Bascom Stevens held meetings
in Vacaville, and coveral families accepted
the faith, Flder held
also at Binghamton, a few miles from Vae-
Healy
meetings
aville, and gained some persons to the cause
in that vieinity, He also hored at Viae-
aville, following up the work storie boat
hat place. Brother Stevens also held
meetings at Lafavetteo and a few were
broucht to the faith as the result of that
effort, About this time Brother Diggs,
a blind brother from Gilroy, becan to
speak on the message, first hy takin
the lead tie his home Sabbath-seheel and
chureh service.
The
house was
work on the Cakland meetines
ptished as rapidly as possible
durin the summer and fall of INT6.0 By
Cetober 25 the building was so nearly
completed that we moved our meetings
hall to the
of our own mecting-house. Elder Wag-
amd the hat
evening ao oseries of lectures on the present
Thi
from the nived lower rooms
voner writer comeneod
Series peor
Brother ond
rom the
those rooms,
truth 1n
tinued unl December 3.
Vster Witte returned [onst on
November 21, and from that {ime assisted
more or less in the meetings, the meets
ino-house was fully completed and ded:
treated on April 1, 18770 Flder
White conducted the dedication
James
SOTVICeS,
reported at the time of the
that the
was Sw13.000,
[t was
cost of the house
Ot this sam Elder
1.000, the
dedication
and lot
White
nade a dontion of
sfountaln View, Cal., January &,
same as he gave to the San IMrancisco
church. As means were paid on his Joan
to the San IFyanerseo ehureh, he rendered
The
erected in after
for the Oakland
was sold to the Germans,
like help to the Oakland c¢hureh.
church building then
bocame too small
Cen
and
col ne iy,
’ v
who moved it to the southwest corner
of 12th and Myrtle Streets where it now
There is one aceney in the work on the
Pacific Coast to which we mast net fail
to endl attention: it 1s that of the first
hoolth institution on the const, whieh was
built mn ISTE and 1877. Tt was then ap-
pronviately called the © Rural ITealth Re-
treat,’ at Crystal Sorines, Cal, Brother
MLGl Kelloeo, ML DLand Brethren Wills
Pratt Asa Bo Atwood
mmto no contract partnership to
Tm and entered
| construe
the building and start the institution near
a beautiful spring of perfectly pure water
Mountain,
three miles northeast of St Helena,
on the side of Howel SOME
..
Nap
feet
pur
abont four hundred
Valley. this
Brother Pratt donated several acres
County, and
above the Napa Mor
pose
mountainside, and in-
Brethren At-
wood and Kelloog donated their labor an
of land on the
vested some money besides,
constructing « building of suiticient size
to accommodate a dozen or more patients,
treatment-rooms
The Wilson
most of the winter of
and suitable hath and
for non small institution,
Drothers
1s
spent
G oand INSTT in constructing the road
v
from the valley up to the site of the
retreat building,
In the Sivas of
1877. NM. Gl
that he had secured grounds on the side
AUIS AI CONT 0
Jie Pitiies of NOV, Co
Kellogg, M. D., announced
ot ITowel Mountain, and was about to
creer buildings to be called oC Ror!
Health Retreat,” located by the side of
Crystal Springs. During the winter of
ISTT and 1878 the two-story building was
constructed, and was opened for the treat-
ment of patients in the early part of the
1878. This health
vear retreat has not
only orown in proporiions, but has also
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been a place where very many have been
Brought to the knowledge and acceptance
«i the
At the present time (1907) the insti-
tution has accommodations for over one
Nessa oe,
hundred patients in the Jarge building,
that
The patronage
and numereous cottages have been
erected on the grounds.
of the institution during the past vear
has been in excess of like period
of all, it
cijovs the presence of the Holy Spirit,
any
Shee tie first opening, Jest
workers seek to know and
ot the
and its move
im the counsel Lord, the great
Healer.
On Anril 1, filder
from Battle Creek, Mich. opened a
IS7T7. Smith
Bib-
auditorium otf the
This
pistruction continued datly for about sev-
Uriah
eal anstitute in the
viakband meeting-house. course of
cnteen days, and was attended hy a class
of fifty. Jt was a means of great good,
especially to the young laborers on the
Pacific Const, and to those connected vith
After
tute a number of heginners went our into
the publishing work. this insti-
Among
the field,
tioned. AL
with success various places, but espe-
these might be men-
Wo. Bartlett, who has labored
cially in Indiana of late years.
Noon this,
D. Rice went with a tent
Herve
SUCCESS,
atter Prethren Andrew
Drorsen and J.
to Pacheco, Contra Costa County.
their Tabors were blessed with
ast number of persons accepted the mes:
sage,
reload fiomidy, one of whom, WJ.
Among these were the most of the
J dre
secretary of the Pacite
and, 15 now
[nen Conference, Bestdes these Inhaorera
mentioned, others tried the work of the
mintstry, and vere more or less suecesstul
instruction received
institute.
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result of the
Bible
as the
in that
Founghboron:h,
In this issue we print one of the papers
recently read at the canvassers’ conven-
tron at Healdsburg,
other of
later,
We shall try to give
these papers to cur readers