Oregon Mission by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1874

Oregon Mission.

By John Norton Loughborough

We have received no definite report written for this number, as we had hoped to do, but we take the liberty of making an extract from a private letter from Bro. Van Horn of recent date, and hope he will have a report for every number hereafter, if it is only a few lines.

He speaks of a tent meeting held for a few days at Weston, Oregon, where he sold thirty dollars’ worth of books, and one family embraced the truth, and then says: “Three more have united with the church in Walla Walla since I wrote you last. We have now pitched the tent on the Walla Walla River about half way between Weston and Walla Walla City. Here we expect to hold a two-weeks’ meeting, to commence to-morrow evening, the 25th, at the beginning of the Sabbath. On the first Sabbath and Sunday in October, we shall have a general meeting of the friends of the cause. We hope to see some good results of our efforts there.”

Since writing the above, we have received another letter from Bro. Van Horn, in which he says, “All is going well with us here; may the Lord bless the work with you there. I hope the Signs will now be published regularly each week, and that it will be permanently located on this coast.” The brethren and sisters up the coast will be cheered to learn, in this number of the Signs, that both of the desires above expressed are likely to be soon realized. —J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, in Signs of the Times.