J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 17, 1878

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

By John Norton Loughborough

District No. 1.

My meetings for the last two weeks have been with the six churches that constitute district No. 1, of the State T. and M. Society. The names of these churches in the order that I have visited them are Petaluma, Bloomfield, Green Valley, Santa Rosa, Christine, and Healdsburg.

These churches vary in age from one to nine years. Petaluma is the oldest, and also the first church raised up on this coast, while the Christine is the youngest of the six. The meetings I have had with these churches have been well attended and in them our people have responded nobly in making their figures on S. B. and the missionary one-third for 1878.

The S. B. pledge in this district for 1878 is $1,287.64 and the missionary one-third $418.90. In some cases during the last year, individuals have left our ranks in this district, but the number is more than made up by new ones embracing the truth at other points in the district. On the whole I am gratified to find so firm a condition of matters in our churches of Sonoma and Mendocino counties.