Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

owner of the lot asked $40 a month. That settled
the question about beginning in San Francisco at
that time.
Thus matters stood until July 27, when Mr.
Hough, one of the Independents of Petaluma,
called at St. Johns and inquired if there were two
ministers with a tent staying with him. How did he
so quickly find us in a city then numbering
175,000? On his way down he had been impressed
to go at once to the Pacific Mail and inquire if a
tent had come on the last steamer from Panama. As
he asked, "Where was the tent?" the very drayman
who had moved the tent, came into the warehouse
and directed him to Minna St. So in thirty minutes
from the time Mr. Hough landed in San Francisco
on the Petaluma steamer, he had found us.
We went to Petaluma the next day. On our
arrival, Mr. Hough met us and said, "You will stay
at my house tonight, but it is arranged for you to
take dinner at Mr. Wolf's." We learned afterwards
that this was planned so that Mr. Wolf could see if
the two men were the ones he had seen in his
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