Reports from the Field by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1879

Reports from the Field.

By John Norton Loughborough

Southampton, England.

We held fifteen meetings in the village hall at Shirley, and have since held meetings in our house, where we have four meetings a week. In the hall we had no privilege of Sunday meetings. We decided to move the meetings to the three lower rooms of our house. Here, with a fire in each room, we can make the people more comfortable than in the hall. We now have Sunday meetings. We get the interested ones to attend here, and new ones are also attending and becoming interested. Last Sunday at three P. M. we opened a Bible class. In the last two Sabbath meetings two more have met with us, and others are almost persuaded to unite with us in keeping the Lord's Sabbath.

Bro. Ings meets with some encouragement in his missionary work from house to house. He has obtained twenty-five subscribers to our periodicals since Jan. 5. We have sold out of this depository, through mail orders and otherwise, books to the amount of $25. Hundreds are reading our tracts and papers. We receive some encouraging letters from our missionary correspondents. We are in hopes to have a sixty-foot tent in readiness for meetings by the first of May.

We have many things to encourage us,—tokens that the Lord is moving upon hearts. One man, not an Adventist, on learning that we were preparing to purchase a tent; sent us an order for $15.00 to help in the enterprise. To-day we received a letter through the post, promising still further aid in this direction. The tent-maker, a man of considerable means, on learning the nature of our work at once dropped $75, on his price for the tent, and besides this offered us a nice British flag, fifteen feet in length, to put on our tent.

March 3. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.