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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 14, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 2.

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WASHINGTON

By John Norton Loughborough

COLLEGE PLACE.—I spent four weeks of the month of December in the college at College Place, Wash. On the school days the opening hour was given me to talk to the students upon the work of the Spirit of God, the gifts of the Spirit, and the development in the world of the great second advent movement. The interest of the students seemed to deepen from day to day. Besides these lessons, I gave some Sabbath-day discourses, and talks in other meetings.
The last week of my stay there was the Week of Prayer. Elder Breed conducted the readings for the first three days, and the professors and teachers conducted the readings and special services the rest of the week. My morning lessons continued through the week, and the special meetings on the school days were in the evenings. Revival work began with the first readings. Inquiry meetings were held for a half hour or more before each evening meeting, and unconverted students—young men and women—began to give their hearts to the Lord. The last Sabbath reading was in the forenoon of December 28. At the close of this service twenty-three of the students were baptized in the baptistery near the college building. In the evening after the Sabbath it was evident that the work was spreading through the community, for the college chapel was filled to the very doors.It was decided to continue the evening meetings at 6 P. M., through another week. Another baptism of students was appointed at the quarterly meeting to be held January 4. In the afternoon social meeting of December 28 there were about one hundred and fifty testimonies borne in one hour. I counted as many as thirty students on their feet at once, waiting their turn to speak a word of praise to God for what He had done for them. The Lord came very near to us in that service. I expect soon to go to Healdsburg, to give some talks in that college. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.