| 154 which the Saints hold him in honorable remembrance, holding four services in connection with Bro. D. S. Mills, and partaking of the sacramental emblems with them, Bro. Henry P. Robins, presiding.
From Stockton we went to Sacramento, situate on the river of the same name. Here we met Bro. Hiram P. Brown, an able and efficient elder of the old-time warfare, who, with Brn. E. H. Webb, C. Bagnall and others are keeping the tocsin sounding. We spoke twice in Sacramento in a hall where the Saints assemble at stated times to hold services. We met quite a number of the old-time Saints here. They still feel kindly toward the faith they once held, though they are cautious and hesitate to accept the theory we bring; some of them, indeed, having discarded any and all connection with religion.
We climbed the cupola of the capitol here, and were rewarded with a wonderful panorama of the surrounding plain.
We here met Bro. J. B. Price, of Davisville, at whose invitation we went on the 24th to his place of residence, and presented the gospel to the people, in a hall procured by Bro. Price and a friend or two. Here we met a few Saints and spent an evening in converse and singing.
On the morning of the 25th, we left for Santa Rosa, by the way of "Frisco," riding two hours by rail and boat down the bay, spending three hours in the city, and then two hours by boat up the bay and one by rail brought us to "Pennis Grove," a solitary station-house, and windows out and abandoned. A mile and a half of California dust on foot and we were, at Bro. Jacob Adamson's, where we were welcomed with a saint-like hospitality. We slept here and on the 26th reached Santa Rosa by "due course of mail."
At Santa Rosa, we were the guests of Bro. J. M. Parks, whom we once met at Louisiana, Missouri, and who is now a staunch defender of the faith. We visited several of the Saints; among them Bro. Jeremiah Root, an old-time Saint, who has seen some rough experience as a lover of the truth.
We preached in Ridgeway's Hall, on Sunday, the 27th, morning and evening, Bro. Mills occupying the afternoon.
Bro. Root carried us to Windsor, seven miles, on Monday, his wife, Bro. Bowen, and Bro. Parks and his wife accompanying us. Here Bro. Bell had procured a hall and we addressed the people. We slept at Bro. Bells, and went to Healdsburg on the 29th. We spoke at the latter place in the evening, to a fair audience. Here we were permitted to experience a thunder-storm accompanied by lightning and rain. We were told by some that it was the first they had seen for twenty-three years, the length of their stay in the State. We had been told that there were no such storms in California; so we thought it extraordinary-possibly got up for our benefit. We met here Bro. E. Adamson, whose guest we were; Brn. Graumlich and Hollar, and Mark Briggs, a brother of Jason W., of Healdsburg, and Bro. Cobb of Lower Lake, and Bro. McKinly of Pine Mountain, all anxious to have the work made honorable.
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