REPORT FROM BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1861

REPORT FROM BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH.

By John Norton Loughborough

DEAR BRO. WHITE : Our meeting is still in progress in this place. The interest was somewhat abated by the great hurry of harvest, but we have had three meetings during the week-time and on Sunday. And last week, as the hurry of harvest was nearly over, two opposition sermons were preached in the tent on the Sabbath and life and death questions, which we reviewed. This has brought the interest up to a higher pitch than ever. We had good liberty in reviewing, and the result is a complete triumph of the truth. Last evening, although it was very rainy and dark, over two hundred came out to hear. After the discourse those who had made up their minds to keep the Sabbath were requested to rise, when about forty arose. Several who are already keeping the Sabbath were detained from the meeting on account of the rain. There are over forty that have expressed their determination to keep the Sabbath. Still we labor on here. Although we have been here five weeks, we shall remain another week at least. Books go off very well considering the hard times for money. We have sold here some $15 worth. We have just introduced the Review, and shall probably get a number of subscriptions. We send you two with this letter.

J. N. Loughborough.

Rockton, Ills.