Reports from the Field by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1879

Reports from the Field.

By John Norton Loughborough

Southampton, Eng.

I HAVE now given seven discourses in Shirley Hall. We have also held three Sabbath meetings at our own home, which have strengthened the Sabbath-keepers here. The numbers and interest have steadily increased at the hall. The people have placed in our contribution box about one-third enough to pay the expense of the meetings.

While laboring here, we are by correspondence gaining access to people elsewhere. We have already been solicited to place the Signs in one reading room at a seaport in Lincolnshire, and to furnish publications for distribution. We have to-day placed publications on a ship sailing to the West Indies.

The Lord has raised us up a friend, a near neighbor, a man in authority at the docks. Although not a Sabbath-keeper he has volunteered to place our publications in the hands of responsible parties on ships sailing to the East and West Indies, intervening ports, and all parts of the world.

The principles of health reform are gaining ground in Great Britain. The secular papers of Southampton have of late admitted into their columns several articles on this topic from the editor of the Dietetic Reformer, and other parties. We have already opened correspondence with advocates of these principles, calling their attention to Good Health and our health publications. January 31. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.