Woodland, Cal by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1873

Woodland, Cal.

By John Norton Loughborough

Two weeks have passed since my last report. The first I spent in Santa Rosa, where I held several interesting meetings. Several new ones have united with the church there of late.

Last Sabbath and first-day I was in Woodland. The company there seem determined to press on. Our enemies report in other places that the Advent cause is dead in Santa Rosa and Woodland. We do not so understand it.

We read in Revelation of some who have a name to live and are dead. Let the reverse be true in our cases, and let us live, though our enemies say we are dead. If we manifest that earnestness we should in the work of God, it matters not what our enemies say. Our actions and efforts will be the true signs of life.

J. N. Loughborough.

Santa Rosa, Cal., Nov. 28, 1873.