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Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

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Chapter 14<br />

Called to England<br />

As early as the spr<strong>in</strong>g of 1874, Elder James<br />

White began to talk to me about go<strong>in</strong>g to England.<br />

I hardly knew why he should ask me until I had<br />

been <strong>in</strong> California five years and Elder Cornell<br />

expla<strong>in</strong>ed, "I heard Sister White say <strong>in</strong> one of her<br />

talks, 'If Elder <strong>Loughborough</strong> is faithful, his labors<br />

will yet be called for <strong>in</strong> England.' "<br />

While I was stay<strong>in</strong>g with Elder White <strong>in</strong> the old<br />

"water cure" build<strong>in</strong>g on Lafayette Road, one<br />

Sabbath afternoon we walked up a mounta<strong>in</strong> where<br />

we might have a prayer season. There among the<br />

chamise brush we both received clear impressions<br />

of duty. <strong>My</strong> wife's health <strong>in</strong>dicated she was not<br />

long for this world. I owned a home <strong>in</strong> Santa Rosa,<br />

but she could not live there because of the<br />

occasional fogs. The Lord granted both Elder<br />

White and me a rich sense of His presence and<br />

light as to duty, that he should solicit money at the<br />

eastern camp- meet<strong>in</strong>gs for the Signs of the Times,<br />

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