Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

and there also came before me a little glimpse into
the future.
As I arose from prayer I said to Elder White, "It
is all clear about your duty to go East, but the
impression came to me as though an audible voice,
"Sell your place in Santa Rosa, but do not buy
elsewhere. Your labors will be here and there, so
you must not be fastened to one place." I
immediately put my house up for sale, and in two
weeks time received a draft for the sum I desired.
From that time on, Elder White mentioned
occasionally that the work should be opened in
England, and hinted at my going. In the spring of
1878, he again went to Battle Creek, and from
there wrote me to leave California and come to the
General Conference to be held there in October,
and they would vote that I go to England. I replied
with eight reasons why I did not think it advisable
to make such a move just then. The most important
were these: first, so many enterprises had been
begun in the work here that ought to be completed;
and second, if I were to go to that field, I ought to
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