p. 62 | Santa Rosa, Jan. 14, 1873

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

Santa Rosa, Jan. 14, 1873

By John Norton Loughborough

California.

My last report was made shortly after the close of the tent-meeting in San Francisco. Since that time, in connection with Bro. and sister White, have attended the quarterly meetings at Santa Rosa, Bloomfield, and Petaluma, and spent three Sabbaths in San Francisco. The meetings, in each place, have been interesting, encouraging, and profitable to the church.

At the Santa Rosa quarterly meeting, one more was baptized, and on Christmas day still another, who had embraced the truth by reading, was baptized, and united to the Santa Rosa church.

There is now a good state of things in San Francisco. Although it became necessary to withdraw from two or three disorderly ones there, double this number immediately united with the church. Still others are embracing the truth who will unite with them soon.

At the meeting last Sunday evening, the hall was completely filled with attentive listeners. The labors of Bro. and sister White have been a source of great profit to the San Francisco church.

For myself, I would say, I am happy to have the privilege, after several years’ separation, of associating again with Bro. and sister White. Although the state of things here has made some hard labor for them, God has blessed them. They are free. May the Lord raise them above trials and infirmities, that they may gain rapidly in health in this beautiful climate, and with renewed vigor be prepared to counsel, instruct, and feed, the church of God with the pure truth God has given them.

J. N. Loughborough.