NOTE FROM ELDER ANDREWS.
By John Nevins Andrews
The chills and fever left me one week since, after a run of fourteen days. I think this attack has wrought a favorable change in my system. My appetite is in a measure restored. I am still obliged to keep my bed, but hope to be able soon to sit up a part of the time. The family of Bro. Loughborough have shown us great kindness. I deeply regret to bring this burden upon them when they have so many burdens to bear, but must think the special providence of God protected us during our rough passage across the ocean, so that this attack was not permitted to come upon me until I reached this good and quiet place. I have sought to make a more perfect consecration of myself to God while on this bed of sickness, and I really hope that the Spirit of God will specially come upon me before I leave this place. One circumstance which has just come to my knowledge gives me much encouragement. When we first began to publish our French paper, some one sent me the name of a merchant in the Turkish empire, who could read French. As he was the only person in that empire who received our paper, we continued to send it to him, though we feared that he cared nothing for it. Recently he has written that himself and several others have embraced the Sabbath in consequence of reading the paper, and that he desires to be baptized. So we see that the Lord is at work. Bro. Loughborough’s work seems to be making steady progress. There are some very encouraging cases, for which we feel to give thanks to God. Southampton, July 3, 1879.