Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

e entirely met. Knowing as I did the financial
condition of these members, to build a church 35 x
80, where a lot alone cost $6,000, looked indeed
like a "leap in the dark."
But we found a lot on Laguna Street for $4,000.
Then one sister promised $1,000 if she could sell
her place, and within two weeks she sold it for
$1,000 above the price she had valued it. A
brother who could not see how a church could be
built said, "If the Lord says it must be done, He
will open the way. Soon he received $20,000 from
an estate settlement and gave $1,000. The church
was erected for $14,000, including the price of the
lot, over half of which was paid for before it was
finished. Then the school district rented the lower
rooms at $75 a month for the next two years."
At the Yountville camp-meeting in 1877, the
songs of the birds at dawn in our beautiful grove
led many of the people to report their awakening
thoughts at the early morning meetings. This was
the first camp-meeting in which we used an organ
in our song service. J. Edson White secured the
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