Report From Elder J. N. Loughborough by John Norton Loughborough

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1910

Report From Elder J. N. Loughborough

By John Norton Loughborough

My last report extended to the time of my arrival in Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., Oct. 11, 1909. I remained in that place until the twenty-first. In that time I held nine meetings in the Mission Seminary, the Sanitarium, and the Memorial Church. Then I went to Rochester, N. Y., and held three meetings with our people in that city, in their newly purchased church building. I was indeed pleased to see that they had so comfortable a place in which to hold services in Rochester. I first heard the third angel's message in that city, and it was there that our people first began printing on a press owned by Seventh-day Adventists—a hand-press, which, with its type, cost seven hundred dollars.

From Rochester I went to South Lancaster, Mass. Here I tarried until November 1. During that time I spoke to our people and to the students of the South Lancaster Academy nine times, at the Melrose Sanitarium to the helpers and patients three times, and at the Concord Jewish Christian Home once. From South Lancaster I went to Battle Creek, Mich. I spoke to the students in the church-school November 5, and twice on Sabbath, November 6, to good-sized gatherings of our people in the Tabernacle.

On Monday, November 8, I started on my home journey, to my daughter's, in Lodi, Cal., where I arrived at the setting of the sun at the beginning of the Sabbath, November 12, just sixteen months to a day from the time I left my California home for Australia. In that time I had traveled by sea thirty thousand miles, by railroad seventeen thousand five hundred miles. I had no sickness of any kind during the time, not even a cold sufficient to hinder me from filling every appointment. I attended five hundred eighty meetings, and preached three hundred fifty-eight times. I feel that it is indeed due to praise the Lord for his care and mercies to this poor unworthy servant.

At Lodi I found a book institute just closing, which was conducted by Brother and Sister S. N. Haskell, Sister E. G. White, and others. Here, on the Sabbath, I had the privilege of once more listening to a stirring discourse from Sister White. On Sabbath, the twentieth, I spoke to a full house of our people in Lodi, and from November 26 to December 7 I was with Brother and Sister Haskell and Brother Beddow in a book institute at Armona. Here I attended twenty-seven services, and spoke in the institute and to the intermediate school twelve times.

From the eleventh to the fifteenth I was at five of the meetings of the week of prayer in Lodi, and then was with Brother and Sister Haskell in a book institute at Healdsburg from December 17-26. Here also I was in twenty-eight services, and in eleven of these I spoke. From December 28 to January 2 I have been attending a religious liberty institute at Lodi, conducted by Brethren H. W. Cottrell, W. M. Healey, and J. O. Corliss. This has been indeed a season of refreshing and courage to this church. To the Lord be all the praise for his exceeding great love and mercies to us, is the sentiment of my heart.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.