J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 11, 1872

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

By John Norton Loughborough

California.

My last report was made May 10. Sabbath and first-day, the 11th and 12th, I spent at Santa Rosa where one more was baptized and united with the church. At the same time Bro. Cornell was having a very interesting time, meeting opposition, at Bloomfield. Spent the week preparing to go out with the tent. Sabbath, the 18th, I was again in Santa Rosa, and Bro. Cornell in San Francisco. Two more were voted into the Santa Rosa church at the Sabbath meeting.

Sunday evening, I left Santa Rosa and came to Woodland, Yolo Co., ninety miles from Santa Rosa, where we arrived on Tuesday evening, the 21st. This is a thriving town of about two thousand inhabitants, the county seat of Yolo County. Our first meeting in the tent here was last evening, and was attended by over one hundred and fifty candid, attentive listeners. There is much talking around town, to-day, concerning the meetings, and the people predict that we shall have a good hearing. May the Lord grant that it may be so, and that great good may be done here. Pray for us.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

[Since the foregoing was in type, we have received the following additional report. Ed.]

OUR tent-meeting is progressing finely in this place. We have good audiences who give the best of attention. We have given only five discourses but are encouraged with the prospects before us. We first introduced the books to-day. About $20.00 worth were taken, which evinces an anxiety on the part of the people to know what these things mean. People are very friendly and treat us kindly, though strangers. We think the Lord was in our coming here. With his blessing to follow and set home the truth, our labors will not be in vain. J. N. L.