NOTE FROM BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 8, 1862

NOTE FROM BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH.

By John Norton Loughborough

DEAR BRO. WHITE: Since my last reports, I have had a two day's meeting at Hanover to organize the church there. After preaching to them twice on the Sabbath, and delivering pointed testimonies on the importance of testing ourselves by the teaching of the gifts of the Spirit of God, fourteen entered into church fellowship. Some stood back, not being prepared to endorse the gifts, and follow their teachings. On first-day evening we met at the house of Bro. William Carpenter jr. to attend the ordinances instituted by Christ on the night of his betrayal. The Lord gave us a season of refreshing by manifesting his Spirit. On the twenty-fifth of March I returned to this place, and commenced lectures in the town of Jefferson, the evening of the twenty-sixth. I have given five lectures there. But as it is so muddy and dark it is thought best to lay over a week with the lectures. I shall meet with the church here next Sabbath to attend to baptism and the Lord's supper.

When I put the note in the paper stating that I would be in Lapeer, I expected to go in a few days. But when I saw Bro. Cornell was going there I made arrangements to come into the south part of the State, and this must pass as the apology for my disappointment. I am detained longer than I expected when last at Assyria, which will deprive me of meeting with the brethren there as soon as I anticipated.

J. N. Loughborough.

Hillsdale Mich. April 1 1862.