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Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

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unrolled a prophetic chart and began to go over the<br />

symbols of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, etc.,<br />

referr<strong>in</strong>g to historical facts. To VanHorn's<br />

exposition Jones would give additional facts,<br />

show<strong>in</strong>g his familiarity with those ancient<br />

k<strong>in</strong>gdoms. Jones came to the meet<strong>in</strong>gs, listened<br />

<strong>in</strong>tently, and then jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Seventh-day<br />

Adventists.<br />

In the Review of April 21, 1874, Elder White<br />

proposed that a paper (Signs of the Times) be<br />

published on the Pacific Coast. At that time we had<br />

planned to hold meet<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Cloverdale, Medoc<strong>in</strong>o<br />

County, and had already shipped the sixty-foot<br />

tent. When Elder and Mrs. White came to visit the<br />

families of Sister Willis and Brother Tay, Sister<br />

White said to her husband, "This is just the place I<br />

saw we should locate the paper." That be<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

case, it seemed of greatest importance to present<br />

the truth <strong>in</strong> Oakland. Elder White immediately<br />

decided to move his household effects here from<br />

Santa Rosa. As they prayed over the matter, they<br />

were so impressed that the tent meet<strong>in</strong>gs should be<br />

held here, they could not sleep. Elder White<br />

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