Report from California by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 26, 1870

Report from California.

By John Norton Loughborough

SINCE my last report, Feb. 25, we have closed our first public effort in Green Valley. At the close of the meetings S. B. was organized for the company in Green Valley and Sebastopol, amounting to over 100,000 per year. The Sabbath keepers in these two places now meet together at the house of Bro. Miner. The church there will probably be organized next Sunday. They now contemplate building, soon, a plain, cheap, house of worship, 24x36.

After closing our effort at Green Valley, while Bro. Bourdeau and Kellogg were laboring among the churches, I gave fifteen discourses at Hopper's district, between Santa Rosa and Petaluma. Four have already come out on the truth there, and we trust others will come out as the labors are continued in the place.

Last Sabbath and first-day our State Meeting was held in Santa Rosa. A report of this good meeting will be sent soon.

This closes the labors of Bro. Bourdeau and myself together, as he has decided that it is his duty to return East and labor among the French. It is hard for us to part; yet it seems to be the will of the Lord that it should be so.

By this move new responsibilities are laid upon me. I hope I may have grace to move in humility; and so trust in God that I may have his guidance in all things. Brethren, pray for us that God may bless Bro. Kellogg and myself in our labors, and that many in this State may prepare to meet the Lord.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Petaluma, Cal., Apr. 13, 1870.