California by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 19, 1875

California.

By John Norton Loughborough

A FRIEND writes, raising some objection to my article upon the work in California under the title "Seven Years," because it made no mention of anything having been done before our coming.

My article was designed merely to recount the mercies of God with his truth for the past seven years, and I spoke of matters as we found them when we arrived here. Some two years before Bro. Bourdeau and myself came, there were nine or ten Sabbath-keepers here who formed themselves into a society, and met together occasionally, Bro. M. G. Kellogg speaking to them. I am informed that this society sent $300 to the General Conference with urgent requests that laborers might be sent here.

At the time we came, however, Bro. Kellogg was in the East, having gone there to plead with the General Conference for laborers. Several of those who had kept the Sabbath had left the State, so, as I said, when we arrived there was not a society of those here in sympathy with us or our views.

J. N. L.