p. 120 | Arrival by John Norton Loughborough

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 11, 1875

Arrival.

By John Norton Loughborough

On the evening of Feb. 2, we were permitted to grasp again the hands of our dear brother and sister White in Oakland. After several months of wearing labor at Eastern Camp-meetings, and in connection with our institutions at Battle Creek, and after the important Biblical Institute, they return to us in good health and with their usual zeal, to act their part in the work here. God has wonderfully sustained Bro. White. His health and strength have evidently improved, notwithstanding his arduous labors East for the past six months.

Our State committee most gladly welcome these pioneers in this cause, and are happy to share their counsel and help at this time when important measures are under consideration.

They were accompanied by Eld. J. H. Waggoner of Michigan, who comes to labor on this coast as the providence of God may indicate. This brother we had not seen for about seven years, and it is a pleasure for us to meet him here. As we converse with these fellow laborers of the past and present, on the changes for the better that have taken place in seven years, and of the great advance made in that time in every department of the work of advancing the cause of present truth, our souls are refreshed; and as we look out and view the opening fields already white for the harvester’s sickle, our zeal is fired and we buckle on the armor anew and resolve in the name of Israel’s God to go forward. J. N. L.