Having shipped his trunk to Manitowoc, his future home, Brother Frink left Chicago on horseback, Oct. 28th, 1837, for his field of labor.  At Milwaukee, the necessary outfit was procured to penetrate the deep forests which lay beyond, including an axe, steele and punk, a tin cup, blankets and provisions.  The only road was an Indian trail, which pushed its devious way through the forest, around the swamps, and across bridgeless streams, without regard to the comfort of the traveler or the speed of his locomotion.  As there were no houses along the line of travel, Brother Frink was compelled to spend the first night in the woods.  Fortunately, however, he found a small, tenantless cabin by the wayside, in which he was safe from the wild, noisy beasts, that prowled without.  The following day he reached Sheboygan.

And this journey was but a sample of the travel and exposures of the year of labor, on which Brother Frink had entered.  Amid the drifting snows of winter, and the copious rains of summer, he was compelled to traverse the dreary, and almost unbroken forests of his field, and on more than one occasion he found the night around his camp-fire made hideous by the howling of wolves and the screaming of panthers.  But in him the cause found a sturdy pioneer who was equal to the demands of the work.

In 1838, his appointment was Elgin, Ill., and, the following year, Watertown, Wis.  In connection with the last named, we shall have occasion to refer to his labors in a subsequent chapter.  At the close of his year at Watertown the charge was divided, and in 1840, he was appointed to Summit, the eastern division.

In 1841, he was returned to Illinois and stationed at Sycamore, and the following year was brought back to Wisconsin, and, as before stated, appointed to Brothertown.  At the Conference of 1845, he took a location on account of family afflictions, but returned again to the work as soon as relieved of his embarrassments.

His subsequent appointments have been Grafton, Agent for Tracts and Sunday Schools, Palmyra, Rock Prairie, Albion, Dunkirk, Fort Atkinson, Footville, Burnett and Markesan.  In 1865, he took a supernumerary relation, but the following year, being made effective, he was appointed to the Bible Agency, which position he has continued to hold up to the present writing.  Brother Frink is still vigorous, and is doing effective service.  He has kept a cheerful spirit up to the present hour, and is highly esteemed by his brethren.

CHAPTER III.

Exhorter in Charge.—­The First Sabbath.—­The Superb Singing.—­Class and Prayer Meetings.—­A Revival.—­Stockbridge Counted In.—­A Remonstrance.—­ Another Exhorter Found.—­Decide to Hold a Great Meeting.—­The Loaves and Fishes in the Lad’s Basket too Few.—­Chief Chicks.—­Conversion of a Noted Character.—­Quarterly Meeting at Fond du Lac.—­Licensed to Preach.—­Camp Meeting at Clason’s Prairie.—­Camp Meeting at Brothertown.—­Church Enterprise.—­Missionary Merchant.—­Logging Bee.—­Successive Labors.