Report from California by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 27, 1870

Report from California.

By John Norton Loughborough

Since our last report we have been holding meetings most of the time in Petaluma with the tent. Our tent is now taken down, and we would report as the present result of our effort here that ten have taken their stand to keep all God's commandments. There was no public opposition that we heard of, but a secret influence, and an earnest effort on the part of the ministers to keep their members away.

Four were baptized last first-day morning.

At the quarterly meeting in Healdsburg the first Sabbath in this month three united with the church. One of them a sister from Anderson, fifty miles north, who, with her husband, embraced the truth by reading. This was their first opportunity of attending a Sabbath meeting. One sister from Bloomfield was baptized also.

In Bloomfield some others are deciding for the truth. The work moves on some; if slowly, we trust surely. We are in hopes that with those who have come out, there will be the greatest carefulness to ever be in earnest in the work of obeying the Lord. How important for the success of the cause in any place that it start right. Pray for us that we may move in the Lord's fear in all our efforts on this coast.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Petaluma, Cal., Sept. 14, 1870.