Visit to Woodland by John Norton Loughborough

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 28, 1875

Visit to Woodland.

By John Norton Loughborough

WHILE our Office hands were busy wrapping and mailing number 13, I made a hasty visit to Woodland for the purpose of consulting with our T. and M. officers there upon the great work before us, and to arrange with Bro. Saunders to print a supplement for the SIGNS.

I spent one evening very pleasantly with the kind family of Bro. Saunders, and was gratified to find them as earnest as ever, desirous for the extension of the truth, and willing to make any reasonable sacrifice for the advancement of the cause. It is perhaps due to Bro. Saunders that I say here, that he made as reasonable offers as he thought his circumstances would admit when it was talked of publishing the SIGNS at his office in Woodland, and it is now probable that our committee made too rigid an interpretation of the statement of the General Conference Committee on the paper here being managed in the same economical manner that the Review is managed.

Considering the differences in prices here and in the East, it seems that $12.00 per week here would require far greater self denial than it would in Michigan. Let justice be done to all. J. N. L.