THE CAUSE IN ENGLAND by John Norton Loughborough

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1880

THE CAUSE IN ENGLAND.

By John Norton Loughborough

On Sabbath afternoon, Aug. 7, a severe gale raged in this part of England, tearing four sections out of the top of our tent and damaging it so that we can use it no more until it is thoroughly repaired. Thus suddenly was our Romsey tent-meeting brought to a close. We gave in the tent twenty-nine discourses. We continue our meetings each first-day, afternoon and evening, in the Town Hall which we obtain for $2.00 a day, including the lighting with gas in the evening. We have some attentive listeners although the attendance is not as great as in the tent.

Since my last report three more have been baptized at Ravenswood, making in all twenty-four baptized at Southampton, and still new ones are becoming interested there.

Last Sabbath we had the pleasure of the presence of brethren Jones and Carpenter and their families in our meeting. In the afternoon Bro. J. gave us an interesting account of his recent trip to Haarlem, Holland, and of the condition of the Sabbath cause there. Bro. J. has recently completed a very interesting table of the days of the week in eighty-one different languages with their equivalent in English. This chart should be in the hands of every Sabbath-keeper. Its great value is that it shows so completely, at a glance, two things: 1. That all these nations count the days of the week alike. 2. That more than a score of them, although paying no religious regard to the seventh day, call the seventh day "the Sabbath."

Our readers may see a difficulty in sending for this chart with explanations, as American stamps if sent are of no postal value here. To obviate this difficulty I will say, any who wish this chart of days with explanation, please write to the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich., inclosing fifteen cents in stamps, with name and address, for the "Chart of Days," and I will post them directly to you as fast as the names and addresses are forwarded here.

The chart is valuable for any one who has a desire to trace the name of days or weeks in these eighty-one languages, whatever their faith or views in other matters.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.