Report from California by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1871

Report from California.

By John Norton Loughborough

Since the last report by Bro. Cornell, published in No. 6 of REVIEW, we have closed our tent meeting in San Francisco. The fierce north-west “trade winds” and evening fogs made it too cold in the tent for meetings; so we secured a church on Harrison St., about 30x60, where we hold about six meetings a week for the present.

As the result of our meetings thus far, about fifty have taken their stand upon the truth, and since moving our meetings, new ones are interested who did not attend the tent meeting. The effort by the Crisis party to use smut affected some who go by prejudice instead of sound reasoning; but those who had candidly heard us through, were not moved by such things.

The running expenses of the tent meeting, amounting to over $200, were promptly met by those interested in the work. About $200 worth of books have been purchased, and we have distributed about forty dollars’ worth of tracts. We are trying to follow up the work in public and from house to house.

Bro. Kellogg moves to-morrow to Healdsburg, and expects to throw his whole time and energies into the proclamation of these truths. Our hearts are encouraged to still push on the work. Pray for us, that we may so move that God’s signal blessing may attend our efforts.

I am truly grateful for the visit of Bro. Cornell to this coast, and that I have the privilege again of participating with him in his earnest labors to advance the cause. Earnestly desiring that the truth may be advanced in God’s own time, by his means, everywhere, I remain, by his grace, at my post of duty. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. San Francisco, Cal.