Bishop Wright says in a letter to us:
"I expect, if my family keep reasonably well, to remain till January in California. I
have been here since October 12th, and we are in the midst of the greatest
revival ever had at this place. There have been many conversions and 22 accessions to the
church. Few places ever became so thoroughly stirred as this community now is. There are
many at the altar, and many others are trembling or weeping in the congregation. Powerful
convictions have been characteristic of the meeting. Many of the penitents and converts
are students. Nine were baptized in the river Mokelumne last Sunday, and one in the
church, nearly all new converts. The president and professors have been greatly enlisted
in the meeting. President Mobley is a fine teacher, an excellent president, a fine
preacher and a noble man. The college has about seventy-five students, and very bright
ones at that. The faculty is an excellent one. Other churches are wonderfully enlisted in
this meeting with their few members. A meeting of ten converts in California ranks as high
here as one of thirty or forty would in the states east. This town is in San Joaquin
(pronounced, San’ Waukeen’) valley, which is part of a great valley (really
undivided) of several rivers, the whole being 300 miles long and 100 miles wide. It is
generally quite level and rich, producing, without irrigation, 30 bushels of wheat to the
acre—but the crop was very light this year. Mokelumne river is pronounced
Ma-kal’um-y. Except near the river grass does little good, except by irrigation. The
roads are excellent. Fig trees are as large as apple trees here. This is emphatically a
wheat land. There is no frost yet. This is the first rain for months. Winters are milder
than Ohio Aprils."