Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Chapter 12
A Testimony Perfectly Timed
As Oliver Skinner started off to open the
schoolhouse, he slipped a revolver into his pocket
saying, "If Peugh puts Loughborough out of that
schoolhouse today, he will do it over my dead
body."
At our meeting I spoke from Phil.3:14: "I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling in
Christ Jesus." Near the close of my sermon, Mr.
Peugh came into the yard. He saw that something
had gone wrong with his plans. announced a
meeting there for the next Sabbath, then closed the
service. The men then formed a cordon around the
angry man until we had gotten off the grounds.
The next week, Mr. Peugh went before the
grand jury to make a complaint against me, and to
request that my preaching be stopped. But the
judge, having learned of his threat on my life and
his unlawful closing of the schoolhouse said, "Mr.
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