SALEM, CAL | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 8, 1877

SALEM, CAL.

In the SIGNS of Oct. 25, Bro. J. N. Loughborough gives a short report from the North Pacific Mission where he is now laboring. After speaking of his journey, he says:—

“I reached Salem on the 13th, thirty minutes after the hour of my first appointment. Bro. Van Horn was speaking to a full house on the subject of love to God and man. After the discourse a brother was baptized and united with the church. At 3 P. M. the ordinances were celebrated in this church for the first time. It was a blessed occasion. We were gratified to meet some fifty Sabbath-keepers together from the churches of Salem and Eola, a point some five miles distant. We have had interesting meetings both in the preaching and business matters considered. All are looking forward with interest to the formation of a Conference in this North Pacific mission. These Sabbath-keepers, only about one year in the faith, seem desirous to move in harmony with the body of God’s people, to learn duty and do it in the fear of the Lord. One more was baptized on Sunday.

“Our people are occupying a neat little church which they rent from the Methodist society. The work here is not finished by any means, as there are many who listen, and look with favor on our cause and the truth.”