Cheering by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1877

Cheering.

By John Norton Loughborough

I TAKE the liberty to insert in the SIGNS some words of good cheer which I have received from different parts of the State in my missionary correspondence. The first is from Red Bluff, district No. 6. This district consists of about 12 members, but these are so scattered that they have had no quarterly meeting for one year until the present quarter. Respecting this meeting Bro. Drew writes:—

“Our good quarterly meeting is in the past, and although some had to travel from ten to fifty miles to attend it, we all felt that it was good to be there. Best of all we can truly say that the Lord was there. All felt a desire to be more consecrated to the Lord and to the precious cause of present truth.” The expression of all was, “I feel of good courage.” May the Lord set his seal to the work.

“On Sabbath we had an interesting Bible class. On Sunday our business meeting was held, and we tried to remember the various efforts to extend the truth.”

Of the same meeting Bro. Disher says:— “About all the members of the Red Bluff church were present. We had a good meeting, for the Lord was with us. If we all live up to the promises there made we may expect more of the Lord’s favor.”

Bro. Puls also says of the meeting: “I think all were encouraged to press on in the right way. I realize the importance of the work more than ever before, and the need of strength from the Lord to overcome my sins. I will do all I can to get subscribers for the SIGNS. ’Tis sweet to work for Jesus.”

Bro. Judson, writing from San Diego, says of the work there: “Bro. Bandy did quite a work in distributing Reviews, SIGNS, and tracts, while selling grapes. He said the people accepted the SIGNS and tracts, very freely the first time he presented them, and the next time they asked for them and said that they were more hungry for such reading than they were for the grapes.”

Bro. Rice who has been home from the State Normal School to visit his friends, says “a great interest is awakened in Colusa County by reading. The people are anxious for a minister to come and preach present truth to them. The way is all prepared for a good work there.”

Let us all be encouraged to scatter the truth, especially let the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, our excellent paper, be placed in the hands of the people. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.