Report from Elder Loughborough by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1903

Report from Elder Loughborough

By John Norton Loughborough

It is many months since I made a direct report through the columns of the REVIEW. Since May, 1902, by vote of the church in Oakland, Cal., I have been acting as one of the pastors of that large church. My work has been mostly visiting from house to house, seeking the good of the church-members and interested persons. Several of the latter have united with the church during the year. It was also my privilege to attend three camp-meetings in the State during the fifteen months just past.

While I enjoyed much of the Lord’s blessing in this local work, my mind, especially since the last General Conference, has been much impressed that I should go out somewhere among our people, telling them of those things which I “have seen, known, and handled” in our experience as a people in the rise of the third angel’s message. Praying over the matter by day, I would in the night season, in my dreams, be going from place to place, east of the Rocky Mountains, holding meetings. My prayer then was, “Lord, what does this mean?” I waited to see what, if any, opening providence for such work would develop. About the last of May a letter came from the president of the Central Union Conference, inviting me to labor for three months in that conference. I said, “This must be in the order of the Lord in answer to prayer; for there has not been a hint given to Elder Russell, the president of that conference, from me, that I had any impression for labor in that field.”

I decided to go, and began to make preparations. From the very day that I decided to go, I have gained in health and strength. And here I am now, at this writing, July 17, in Palisades, Colo., where my labors began in this union conference. I am to speak in the tent meeting here to-night. To-morrow I am to be with the church in Grand Junction, a few miles away. I request the prayers of the Lord’s people that my labor may not be in vain in the Lord. It is not by might nor by power, but by his Spirit, that the Lord’s work through us must be made effectual.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.