Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

at our very first tent meeting in Battle Creek in
1854.[11]
After returning to Oakland, Aug. 21, I spent
two days shipping tents, books, etc. for our campmeeting
at Yountville. We had only our conference
workers to conduct this meeting, and there was
good spiritual interest by our people. On Sept. 5,
we bade goodbye to our people in that part of the
state, and hurried to the King's County campmeeting
held near Lemoore. I went immediately to
Oakland and shipped the tents and supplies to the
campground. I arrived at Lemoore in time to
preach at 11 a.m. Sabbath, and then on to the
campground in the afternoon.
As a result of almost constant labor and travel,
I was so wearied that on the morning of Sept. 11,
after I had talked about 25 minutes, I fainted away
in the pulpit. Elder Healey completed the sermon
while the brethren carried me to my tent to
recuperate. On Sabbath, 25 candidates were
baptized in the irrigation canal not far from the
camp. After returning to Oakland, we prepared for
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