| 227 Early in May, 1878, Elder J. R. Lambert organized a branch at Coalville, Iowa. Elder T. R. G. Williams was chosen president, and T. R. Williams secretary.
On May 13 Elder Jeremiah Jeremiah, a member of the Seventy's Quorum, and a former missionary to England and Wales, died at Canton, Illinois. He had been identified with the Reorganization since September, 1860, and served the interests of the cause faithfully.
The following items appeared in the Herald for May 15, 1878:
Brn. William Anderson, Oakland, California, and D. S. Mills, write the sad news of the death of Bro. J. M. Parks, of Santa Rosa, California, a man who was beloved as a strong supporter and defender of the gospel of Christ on the Pacific Slope. Bro. Anderson says that the calls for preaching in that land are numerous, but times are hard and work in the ministry is limited in consequence. Brn. Mills and Burton are laboring faithfully and also others of the more local ministry. . . .
Bro. Jacob S. Whitaker, president of the Wheatville Branch, Wisconsin, writes that the members there are firm in the faith, and are determined, the grace of God assisting them, to overcome, and to gain the victory and the haven of rest promised to God's people. Two somewhat remarkable cases of healing occurred there recently, one of a child sick with a fever, the other of a very old sister (aged seventy-eight) who was thrown from a wagon and much bruised, and who was speechless and helpless, but who sat up and talked and ate dinner shortly after being administered to according to God's word. . . .
Bro. R. Thrutchley, of the Salt River Branch, Macon County, Missouri, writes of the acceptable labors of Bro. G. T. Griffiths among them, and he reports that the work is onward there with prospects of still further additions to the church. He went to Knox County with Bro. Griffiths and the latter preached nine times. Prejudice was removed and the people request more preaching. . . .
Bro. G. Griffiths, of Bevier, Missouri, has baptized one at Bevier, one at Salt River, Missouri, and two at Hill's Grove, Illinois, of late.
On May 15 Elder D. H. Bays wrote from Stockdale, Texas. The following is an extract from his letter:
On my way I stopped in Montgomery County, to visit old friends whom I had not seen for thirty years. I visited the old homestead, where the happy days of my childhood were spent. But how sadly changed! The house, then new, is gone; the old cedar-tree under whose evergreen boughs I often played with brothers and sisters, and beneath whose inviting shade a loving and tender mother taught me to lisp the sacred name of Jesus, had, by ruthless hands, been torn away.
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