NOTE FROM CALIFORNIA by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 23, 1869

NOTE FROM CALIFORNIA.

By John Norton Loughborough

OUR last report was made by Bro. Bourdeau, just as the tent had left Healdsburg. The tent was pitched in this place, and the meetings commenced the evening of Sept. 15, since which time we have had about sixty meetings with great interest. Last Sabbath, ten arose to keep the Sabbath, most of these are seeking the Lord for the first time in their lives.

We have met with the company at Healdsburg four Sabbaths, and one Sabbath in Petaluma, and have had a rally of our brethren and sisters of this county during the tent-meeting here. The brethren and sisters of Santa Rosa (seven miles off), have met with us some and expect to be with us next Sabbath, at which time several expect to be baptized.

It is expected that the meeting-house in Santa Rosa will be enclosed, ready, with temporary seats, for this winter's use in about two weeks. Our tent is still up, but will have to be laid by soon, as the evenings are quite cool. We have now been using the tent seven months. With the exception of one Sabbath, it has been used every Sabbath and first-day in the time. We are somewhat worn, as we have had in that time two hundred and forty meetings, and labored much from house to house. It is now our design to organize the companies raised up, and then enter still other new fields. Calls come in from various quarters; we want wisdom to move in the counsel of God. Pray for us. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Sebastopol, Cal., Nov. 4, 1869.