Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

is willing to teach us. His eye is on our pathway,
and our ways are in His hands. He will guide us if
we put our trust in Him.
During the month of September, 1896, Elder
Johnson and I met with our believers at Striberg,
Orebro, and Grythyttehed. It was a matter of much
interest to me to be in Orebro, the very heart of the
Advent movement in Sweden in 1843, when the
children preached. I met several of those who heard
them preach, and talked with men who preached
when they were children. I asked one of them,
"You preached when you were a boy?" He replied,
"Preached! Yes, I had to preach. I had no devising
in the matter. A power came upon me, and I said
what I was compelled to say."
One told us of a little three-year old girl who
thus preached a short distance from Orebro. There
were many of five or six years who preached. I
went into the old Orebro prison where Ole Boquist
and Erik Walbom were imprisoned for preaching
the doctrines. These two young men were then
about 17 years of age. Boquist's sister, 72 years
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