Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

situation was told them.
Through the Review, Elder White invited the
Eastern brethren to raise means to purchase a tent
for the feeble cause in Wisconsin so that
Stephenson and Hall could more effectively reach
the people. The tent was purchased and they
returned with it, professing to be in full harmony
with the cause. But by midsummer we learned that
in their meetings they were seeking to prejudice the
people against the Review and Elder and Mrs.
White. Stephenson was using the information he
had obtained from Elder White to prove that White
was trying to build himself up, when those who
knew him best knew his self-sacrificing labors
were for the sole object of extending the cause of
truth. While he was the legal owner of the Review,
he never claimed it as his own. As soon as a legal
publishing association was formed, he freely turned
the whole thing over to the Seventh-day
Adventists.
When Stephenson and Hall were First-day
Adventists, they had accepted the theory of an
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