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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 7, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 10.

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Nevada.

By John Norton Loughborough

My meetings in the State of Nevada are closed for the present, and I am now on my way to Red Bluff, Cal. I have given in all twenty-four discourses at St. Clair, and one at Stillwater, besides holding a business meeting to organize the work for the State of Nevada.
A church of eleven members has been organized at St. Clair, and besides these ten have signed a covenant to keep the Sabbath with all the commandments. Of the twenty-one, nine have taken their stand since these meetings commenced.
On Sabbath, February 23, Brother Jackson Ferguson was ordained Elder of the St. Clair church. A Sabbath meeting, with Sabbath-school and Bible-class, will now be held each Sabbath, to be conducted by Brother Ferguson, and we expect others who are investigating will soon take their stand for the truth.
Sunday, the 24th, a temporary State organization was effected for the State of Nevada, of which we give a report in this paper.
The systematic benevolence pledge of the St. Clair church for 1878 is $270. Besides this the church and friends have pledged $300 to purchase and fit up a tent for the work in the State of Nevada, and they raised and paid $78 for my traveling expenses and four week's time in Nevada.
The school-teacher in the Churchill county Institute building, having himself signed the covenant to keep the Sabbath, presented the following resolution at the close of my last meeting, which was heartily endorsed by a rising vote of the audience:—
Resolved, That we give many thanks for the lectures given by the Rev. Mr. Loughborough, and earnestly entreat him to visit us again at his earliest opportunity.
The building where we held our meetings being on the great traveling thoroughfare through Churchill county, our meetings have been attended more or less by persons who were not residents at St. Clair, and thus the sound of our message has gone abroad to other parts of the county. We hope to hear of fruit from such seed sown, though it may be "after many days."
I look back with pleasure upon the month I have just spent in Nevada. May the Lord bless the people and the work there.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.