Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Grandfather was a devout Christian and lived
his religion before his fellow men. It was not
popular in those days to be a Methodist, and some
of our Universalist neighbors resorted to ridicule
and petty annoyances. As we would come home
from church, we would sometimes find several
lengths of fence pulled down and the cattle in the
grain field. Grandfather well knew who did the
mischief for he would see them sneering as he
drove out the cattle and put up the fence on
Sunday, but he said nothing. One summer day as
the family came home, grandfather was astonished
to see his fine cherry trees stripped of large limbs
of ripe cherries. Many weeks later they were
discovered a half-mile away in a deep woods.
Grandfather said nothing, but prayed for his
enemies.
Amid all these perplexing incidents grandfather
sought for grace to bear persecution without
complaining, often using a favorite expression, "It's
a long road that doesn't have a turn in it." He
expected there would be a respite after a while, and
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