Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

other before.
As Mrs. White bore her testimony there was an
anxious looking toward Mrs. Alcott, the woman
reproved, to see how she took it. Had she been
innocent of the charge, it would naturally be
expected for her to deny the whole thing. With
every eye fixed upon her, she slowly rose to her
feet, and with a sanctimonious look said slowly,
"The - Lord - knows - my - heart," and sat down.
Then the forenoon meeting closed.
After we left the barn to take dinner at a
brother's house nearby, the woman rallied the
people together for a prayer meeting. It was a
complete bedlam of voices calling at once, "O
Lord! O Lord!" She asked the young man to pray,
and what a prayer it was! "O Lord, take care of our
persecutors. Send a bucket of tar and a bag of
feathers, and a wooden horse, and ride them out of
town on a rail," and many other expressions of
similar character. Then for a few minutes Mrs.
Alcott talked, making no reference whatever to
Sister White's talk, but went on to teach her
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