Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Afterwards, one man said to me, "Well,
Johnnie, I'm glad you've decided to be a good boy."
I felt disappointed. I longed for someone to help
me seek and find the favor of the dreadful, angry
God I pictured in my mind, who would be pleased
to destroy me. I was not quite twelve years of age.
As we came out of the church, we were
strangely awed by a band of white light about as
wide as the moon's disk stretched across the
heavens from southwest to northeast. That
wonderful band of light continued all that night and
the whole of the next night.
As a result of the lectures my grandfather and
his whole family, with hundreds of others, believed
the doctrine. They used to bring home books and
papers such as Signs of the Times, and Voice of
Truth. I read them eagerly and carried them to the
neighbors. A great revival followed the preaching
of the Advent doctrine.
The first time that was set for the Lord to come
(in the spring of 1844), I worked all the day the
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