Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Among those in our audience on this last day of
our meeting was R. J. Lawerence, an earnest
Baptist minister. As he rode home on his horse, his
neighbors who had been attending asked him what
he thought of the day's talk. Putting his hand to his
head, he replied, "O, my head is so full I shall have
to take three days to think it out." As a result of his
thinking he became a Seventh-day Adventist
minister, and spent the rest of his life in this cause.
In our first season's effort with the tent we had
meetings in eleven places. We called this "running
the tent." It might have indeed been considered
running from place to place were it not that though
each effort was comparatively short, a full
condensed line of truth was given to the people,
and some souls accepted. We were hurrying on
with the idea of awakening an interest in many
places to be followed up afterwards.
Our winter labors of 1854-55 were in the state
of New York. When our people there learned of the
tent effort success in Michigan, they purchased a
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