A Note From Brother Loughborough by John Norton Loughborough

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 10, 1908

A Note From Brother Loughborough

By John Norton Loughborough

We are nearing Suva, Fiji. We have had a remarkably smooth voyage thus far. With the exception of two fifteen-minute gentle showers, it has been clear overhead all the way from Vancouver. With the exception of a half-day’s east wind after leaving Honolulu we have hardly had sea enough to raise whitecaps.

We arrived in Honolulu on Friday, July 24, about one hour before the Sabbath. Brother C. D. M. Williams and family met me at the boat. I spoke one hour to our company there in their neat little chapel, which is next door to Brother Williams’s residence. At 9 P. M. I returned to the boat, as we set sail in the night.

I have not had even a symptom of seasickness, and with the daily inhaling of an abundance of pure sea air, I am gaining in strength daily. To-day we crossed the one hundred eightieth meridian of longitude, near noon, so this day is half Sunday and half Monday, and is also half August 2 and half August 3. As days are fixed on this earth, we must change our dates here to be in harmony with those days established in God’s providence in the earth.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Aug. 2, 1908.