Appendix D
J.N. Loughborough Letter to Lida Scott
Sanitarium, California,
September 20, 1921.
Lida F. Scott Madison, Tennessee
Dear Sister Scott,
Your letter of September 8, enclosing
Numbers 1, 4, and 5
of the
Madison leaflets, duly received. Thank you for the leaflets and your
remembrance of me. Your letter caused these thoughts.
We are apt to think of our friends, whom we have not seen in a
long time, as we last saw them. So I suppose my friends a distance
from here think of me as when they saw me years ago when I was
actively at work all over the country, and even making a trip in my
ministerial work all around the world. It may be a surprise to such to
learn that I was eighty-nine years of age the 26th of last January, and
that I have been off this hill on which this sanitarium stands only three
times in three and one-half years.
I thank you for your invitation to attend your missionary volunteer
convention October 7-9. Although I cannot come in the flesh, I can
assure you, as Paul did the Colossians, “Though I be absent in the
flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order,
and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.”
I thank the Lord I am free from bodily pains, but am only feeble
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with age. If I cannot get about in public labors as formerly, I thank
God that, as Sister White said to a sister who had been an active Bible
worker when in health but was unable thus longer to work, “Sister,
you can work now as well as formerly—you can pray for those who
have health to be actively engaged in the great harvest field of labor.”
I have watched with intense interest the work of Brother Sutherland
since being privileged to be with him a short time years ago when
he was in the Battle Creek College, when I gave a few talks there.
Then I was glad to see him move out in the plan of which we had been
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