Report from Bro. Loughborough by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1862

Report from Bro. Loughborough.

By John Norton Loughborough

Our tent-meeting in this place is about to close. We are through preaching; but Bro. Hull is in the midst of a discussion with a Spiritualist, Uriah Clark, of Auburn, N. Y. The discussion closes to-morrow evening, and the next morning we move to Lowell, seventeen miles west of this, where our next meeting will be held.

The interest in the meetings here has not been as great as in some places, nor so largely attended as at Charlotte, owing to several causes: 1. It has been a very busy season with farmers in their harvest, so that scarcely any have come in from the country. 2. There has been quite an interest among several of the citizens, but the ministry of the place—some of them—have tried the wire-working policy, and have succeeded in keeping away a good share of their members. About half a dozen have made up their minds to obey the truth. We have sold here about $16 worth of books.

Our Sabbath meetings have been very interesting, as quite a number of brethren and sisters have met with us each Sabbath from the surrounding country. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. Ionia, Mich., Aug. 11, 1862.