Being Grieved that they taught the People. Acts iv, 2.
In the Advent Herald of Sept. 29, 1868, we find the following: “Bro. Wm. Mock, writing from Petaluma, Cal., Aug. 27, says: ‘The “Seventh-day Adventists” are holding tent meetings here, and a good degree of interest has been manifested in the lectures of Elds. Loughborough and Bourdeau, who have recently come to this coast. Some of us think it unfortunate that the attention of the people, which had been arrested on the subject of Christ’s coming and kingdom, should now be diverted to a consideration of matters of law which produce strife and division. We hope the people may be led, however, to ‘search the Scriptures daily whether these things are so,’ and that in the Lord’s good time more laborers as evangelists may be sent this way to teach the things concerning the blessed kingdom,—men who may be led by the Spirit of truth into such light and liberty of the gospel that they will put no yoke of bondage on the disciples, but simply the yoke of Christ, which is easy to all who abide in Him.’” The writer of the foregoing, the reader will recollect, was spoken of quite at length in last report from California.