SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 19, 1879

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND.

By John Norton Loughborough

We held our first service in the tent Sunday, May 18, at 3:30 P. M., with an audience of about six hundred. We have now given ten discourses. Notwithstanding it has been rainy and cold most of the time, our meetings have been well attended, and the best of attention is given to the word spoken.

The people show their appreciation of what they hear by contributing toward bearing the expense of the meeting. They have already placed in our contribution boxes one pound sixteen shillings, about nine dollars. At the close of our service last Sunday evening, we held a prayer-meeting. About forty remained, and a goodly number took part with us. We hope for good results from this effort. For this we labor and pray daily.

In connection with our preaching, we are pushing on our missionary work from house to house, and sending out the Signs by post. We have received several favorable responses during the last two weeks,—two from parties to whom Bro. George R. Drew, of America, has been sending papers and letters. In one of these is a statement that a whole neighborhood is reading the paper with interest. “Let us not be weary in well doing.” Eternity alone can tell the result of our seed-sowing. The word is ever timely to God’s people,—“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”

Pray for our work here, that the Lord may water the seed sown, give the increase, and an abundant harvest in the end.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

May 30.