The Truth Gaining Ground by John Norton Loughborough

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

The Truth Gaining Ground.

By John Norton Loughborough

A BROTHER writing from Del Norte Co., sends twelve new subscribers for the SIGNS, and says, "I hope and pray that some of these will be caused to keep the Lord's Sabbath through reading this valuable paper. There are some here who desire to study into the merits of the question."

Another brother writes from Vermont, and speaks of a man who had received four numbers of the SIGNS, and says "he has now become a paying subscriber to the Voice of Truth. It has accomplished a mission in interesting him enough to subscribe for the Voice." That is good. The truth of God in SIGNS or Voice, is important, and we rejoice to know that it spreads by means of either.

Another case: A brother writes from Oregon, sending pay for a paper sent on trial to one of his neighbors, and says of him: "He says he would not do without it for twice the price of it. He loans it to one of his brethren, who has been raised from infancy in the doctrine of Methodism, and he told me to-day 'it was the best religious paper he ever read, although it was different in its teachings from anything he had been used to hear.' I think the SIGNS will yet be the means of opening the eyes of several in this country in regard to the great truths contained in the Bible. The cause is bound to prosper when God is at the helm. I hope before long that some one can come out here and preach for us."

A couple of sisters near San Diego, Cal., who have embraced the truth by reading tracts and papers, writes, sending a donation of $15.00 to our State Missionary Society, and say : "We would like very much to hear a living minister. Could not one come to San Diego?"

The gentleman on the Minnesota camp ground, into whose hands a stray paper providentially fell, and who carried it to Pa., and then sent here for more, as we mentioned a few weeks since, now sends other subscribers, and says, "they too will circulate it, and induce others to subscribe." So it goes, one hears, and then says to his neighbors, "Come and see." They come to see, and some of them abide with the truth. J. N. L.