Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

soul to be immortal and invisible, and so small that
3,000 could dance on the point of a needle. This
sadly destroyed my childish fancy about the bright
clouds.
Although my grandparents believed the coming
of the Lord to be near, they also believed we were
to "occupy till I come," so they wished me to get a
good education. Not only was I anxious to secure
education from books, but also in the use of tools.
A cousin of mine had a violin. Since I had no
money to purchase one, I made one, shaping the
bulge of the instrument from a beech board. I never
became a violinist. A physician in the village, to
encourage me, paid me a good price for the
instrument for it was a careful copy of those sold in
music stores.
As I began to study "Comstock's Philosophy," I
wanted to make everything described in the book. I
constructed an electrical machine with its glass
cylinder for generating electricity, the Leyden jar
with thunder tongs, dancing jacks, hair-raising
images, and other paraphernalia. Then I made a
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