Barton S. Riggs came that year. F. M. Walden was also a pioneer preacher at Waitsburg. Waitsburg, Feb. 6. There were 2 confessions and 1 from the Baptists just before we commenced this meeting, making 89 since Jan. 1. Mr. Walden later reported the local membership to be 236.
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1898 Early leaders at the Waitsburg Church included James C. Arnold, Charles and Margaret May Lewis Brown, Leroy Brown, James P. Bruce, William P. Bruce, Jasper V. Crawford, Abraham C. Dickinson, Thomas J. Hollowell, Matthew McCauley, Joel Perkins, Mrs. Poulson, James Strong, Myrtle Wheeler and Samuel Wilson. A powerful tool for growth in Washington State was the camp meeting. A preliminary meeting was held on Friday evening in the meeting-house, at which a preparatory address was delivered from Acts x.33. The missionary convention opened properly on the camp-ground, on Saturday morning, with singing the songs of Zion and the reading of an appropriate lesson in Ps. In the afternoon the brethren and sisters came pouring in from Dayton, Bunday, Dixie, Touchet and Walla Walla.