We reached home Nov. 21st, in good health and spirits, after an absence of more than a quarter of a year, and found all in good health, and prosperous. Praise the Lord!
We look back upon this tour with pleasure. The old friends of the cause are firm, and their increasing interest and consecration is seen in their liberality in raising means to extend the cause West. A full report will be given in the Good Samaritan No. 2. We formed acquaintance with some at almost every meeting21who have embraced the Sabbath the past year. And we are happy to learn that some others at nearly every meeting we held decided to take hold of the covenant of the Lord, to keep his Sabbath from polluting it.
The first ten weeks of our journey, till Bro. Loughborough joined us, we traveled near 2000 miles, preached fifty times, and transacted business, from the sale of a penny tract up to a much larger sum, to the amount of $1000. We returned with better health and courage to labor in the cause of truth than we have had for the past ten years.