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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · May 5, 1885

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 18

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WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

By John Norton Loughborough

Since my last report I have visited Colfax, Garfield, Farmington, Medical Lake, Plaza, and Dayton. At Colfax, where the tent was pitched last summer, I found a few obeying the truth. I held two evening meetings, and visited among the interested ones in the day time. Sabbath and first day, March 21, 22, I was at Garfield, where the third tent-meeting of last season was held, and gave four discourses. I was pleased to find the few already in the faith maintaining their Sabbath-school and Sabbath meetings.
On first-day evening I spoke at Farmington, eight miles from Garfield. Many of the members of this church live quite a distance from the place of meeting, and so are deprived of the privilege of regular services; but those who are near by are faithful in maintaining the meeting and Sabbath-school. Leaving Farmington I drove on to Medical Lake, calling on several scattered Sabbath-keepers on the way; and at the Lake found a number of believers in the message. Some of these who have been so situated that they did not strictly observe the Sabbath, are now released from these hindrances, and promise to fully obey the truth. While in the place, I gave one discourse in the Baptist meeting-house. I had a full attendance. The resident minister took part in conducting the services.
Sabbath, March 28, I spent with a family of our people near the old Plaza post-office. On the next first day I gave a discourse to a full house in their district school-house. The week following I drove over one hundred miles to Dayton. I attended the quarterly meeting with the Dayton church April 4; and while there I gave two evening discourses to attentive audiences. April 5 I came to Walla Walla, thus completing my carriage ride of six hundred miles. By traveling in this manner I have been enabled to call upon many of our scattered members that I could not have reached by public conveyance.
April 7. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.