Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Brother Chapman at Alden had seated a grove
near his house for a two-day meeting and had
thoroughly advertised. The Seventh-day Baptist
minister of Big Foot Prairie cancelled his
appointments and brought his whole church for the
meetings.
At that time the country was open Prairie, and
no fenced roads, so we had to keep our course to
Shabbona Grove sixty miles farther south by
sighting some distant object, then making for that
object. After spending two days here with a
devoted couple, we journeyed to Sullivan Heath's
at Barron Grove where we held meetings in a shed
between two cribs of corn. With our charts hung
upon the cribs we instructed the Heath family as
though we had a large audience.
Then we went on to Brother Lock's at Salem,
Indiana, where they prepared a grove for meetings
which were well attended. Just before sundown on
Sunday, we baptized eight souls. After the
congregation separated and I was about to change
clothing, Brother Bodly requested, "I can't have
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