MEETINGS IN ILLINOIS by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 27, 1861

MEETINGS IN ILLINOIS.

By John Norton Loughborough

DEAR BRO. WHITE: Our meeting closed at Harrison last Sunday, after having held over six Sundays. The interest the last week was the best of any week of the meeting. Over forty have come out to keep the Sabbath, and on the last day of the meeting ten were baptized. There were about one thousand people at the river side to witness the baptism. The procession of teams that went from the tent two miles to the place of baptism, was over half a mile long. More will probably go forward in obedience to the ordinance soon. Bro. Sanborn will be back there one week from next Sabbath to speak to the people again. We expect more will come out on the truth there.

Our tent is up in this place ready for meetings, which are to commence this evening, and hold till Sept. 11, evening, when we shall close for Avon conference; and, if interest demands, Bro. Sanborn will return and follow up with lectures in a large schoolhouse in the place.

Yours in hope of life.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Davis, Ills.