Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

San Jose, we had not seen the way clear. But now
the temperance people asked for one of our tents to
hold meetings there, gave us $100, and paid all
expenses for moving and erecting it. When their
meetings closed June 27, we secured the use of the
same ground, and on July 2 opened with a
message by Elder Canright. He and Elder Cornell
continued there, and over 30 were baptized.
As the summer heat at Woodland was too great
for my wife's feeble condition, we sold our house
at Santa Rosa and moved to St. Helena. On Sept.
24, we pitched our two sixty-foot tents side by side
with a connecting canvas, on the Yountville
campground. We were favored in having Elder
George I. Butler, a member of the General
Conference committee, with us for the first time.
Since my wife was anxious to enjoy the meetings
and felt it might be her last opportunity, we
arranged a tent for her and her sister just behind the
meeting tent. Here she could lie upon her bed and
still hear the preaching.
On Oct. 11, we told the people that the General
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