Work in Southampton by J. N. Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1879

Work in Southampton

By J. N. Loughborough

Southampton, England.

WE held our first service in the tent Sunday, May 18, at 3:30 P. M., with an audience of about six hundred. We have now had ten discourses. Notwithstanding it has been raining and cold most of the time, our meetings have been well attended, and the best of attention is given to the word spoken.

The people show their appreciation of what they hear by contributing toward the expense of the meeting. They have already placed in our contribution boxes about $9.00. At the close of our service last Sunday evening we held a prayer meeting. About forty remained and a goodly number took part with us. We hope for good results from this effort. For this we labor and pray daily.

In connection with our preaching we are pushing on the missionary work from house to house, and sending out the SIGNS by post. We have received several favorable responses during the last week—two from parties to whom Brother Geo. R. Drew, of America, has been sending papers and letters. In one of these is a statement that a whole neighborhood is reading the paper with interest. "Let us not be weary in well doing." Eternity alone can tell the result of our seed-sowing. The word is ever timely to God's people, "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou canst not tell which shall prosper this or that, or whether both shall be alike good."

Pray for our work here that the Lord may water the seed sown, give the increase, and an abundant harvest in the end. May 30. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.