Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

started for Alexander Valley near Healdsburg,
fording the Russian River to intercept the team that
was to take the tent to Cloverdale. He was just in
time, and the tent was put on the train for Oakland.
The tent was erected on a beautiful lot in April, and
meetings conducted by Elders Canright and
Cornell.
The erecting of the tent in Oakland proved to
be the order of the Lord, for soon after the
meetings opened, the great temperance "local
option" movement came on. For ten day's use of
our tent they gave us $100 in gold. On May 29, we
erected a new sixty-foot tent in East Oakland
where there was another week of temperance
meetings, and the society paid us $50 for the use of
the tent. The giving of our influence and votes to
the "local option" movement brought about a
strong bond of sympathy for us by those who
opposed the sale of liquor. During the temperance
rally in Oakland, the people had well learned the
way to our tents, and our efforts in the meetings
that followed were a success in both tents which
were two miles apart.
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