Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

They also gave energy to the Messenger and Hope
of Israel parties, and were zealously fighting the
testimonies of Sister White. They started a paper
called The Advent and Sabbath Advocate. But
before many months had passed, both men dropped
interest in the Advocate and gave up the Sabbath.
Brother Starr of Iowa told me that the day he was
baptized, Brinkerhoff was present, and met him as
he came up out of the water. Shaking hands with
him he said, "I am glad to see you take your stand
with this people. They have the truth and I am
sorry I ever left them. ... It's too late for me to
rejoin them. I am a lost man."
The Advocate, however, was continued by a
man named William Long. But how could he be
leader of a flock without an organization? They
chose the name "Church of God" and soon
organized churches and conferences, and finally a
general conference with headquarters at Stanberry,
Missouri.
From January until April 3, 1866, I remained in
western New York, then returned to my home in
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