THE CAUSE IN ENGLAND by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 18, 1881

THE CAUSE IN ENGLAND.

By John Norton Loughborough

My last report was made June 29. Since that date two more have signed our covenant. One of these was baptised on the occasion of our church quarterly meeting, July 2. This makes twenty-nine who have been baptised at Ravenswood.

The report of our National Tract and Missionary Society, in our meeting just held, shows an increase of work over previous quarters, with corresponding increase in results. The report is as follows: visits made, 2058; letters written, 6,336; letters received, 277; tracts distributed, 53,372 pages; periodicals distributed, 15,270; book sales, $39.24; new subscribers obtained 46; ships visited, 88.

We have met with the interested ones at Woolstone for the last four Sundays. A few have given attention to the word spoken relative to the promises of God, the work of the Saviour for us, and the utter inability of ourselves, to do ought acceptable to God, without that grace which is in Christ.

One strange feature in Woolstone has been that the Vicar of the Parish has taken upon himself to go to every house warning the people to stay away from our meetings, and telling them it would be well with them to follow in the old way of their fathers, and that if they did so they would be safe. He knew us not, nor what we were teaching. To those who had candidly heard us it sounded strange to hear the warning of the Vicar. As for myself, his course reminded me much of a statement made by William Tyndale relative to his opponents. They were warning the people against him while he was teaching what they professed to believe and teach. He said he did not know why they objected unless it was because what he said was "not hammered on their anvil."

The last month has been one in which, more than ever before, we have seen evidence that the attention of the people, in various parts of the kingdom, is being turned toward this depository and our work. This confirms us in the conviction that the labor of posting our journals is not sowing seed in vain.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. Southampton, July, 18, 1881.