At the close of the Conference we returned to Janesville for a second year.  There still being no Parsonage I purchased a residence, thereby securing a pleasant home.  The plan of supplying outside appointments was continued during the summer, and in some instances Sunday Schools were also opened.  The religious interest continued, and the Church was filled with people.  At the expiration of their probation one hundred of the converts were received into full membership, and, in the following fall and winter, many others.  During the winter a revival again visited the charge, which greatly strengthened the converts of the previous year, and added to their number.  The two years spent in Janesville to us were exceedingly pleasant, and gave us a goodly number of life-long friends.  The Sunday School had become very prosperous, the charge was now out of debt, and the finances self-supporting.  And more than all, we left a united and happy people.

Janesville has since enjoyed her full share of able and successful Pastors.  Several years ago, she divided into two bands, and has now two good Churches, two good congregations, and two able Ministers.

CHAPTER XIX.

Conference of 1859.—­Presiding Elder.—­Milwaukee District.—­Residence.—­District Parsonage.-Visits to Charges.—­Spring Street.—­Asbury.—­Rev. A.C.  Manwell.—­Brookfield.—­West Granville.—­Wauwatosa.—­Rev. J.P.  Roe.—­Waukesha.—­Rev. Wesley Lattin,—­Oconomowoc.—­Rev. A.C.  Pennock.—­Rev. Job B. Mills.—­Hart Prairie.—­Rev. Delos Hale.—­Watertown.  Rev. David Brooks.—­Rev. A.C.  Huntley.—­Brookfield Camp-Meeting.

The next Conference session was held April 20th, 1859, at Sheboygan Falls.  The excellent Bishop Baker presided, and I was again elected Secretary.  It was at this Conference the trial of Rev. J. W. Wood was had.  He had been the Presiding Elder of the Janesville District, but, having obtained a divorce from his wife on the ground of desertion, instead of the one cause named in the New Testament, and married another, he had been suspended during the year.  The trial resulted in his expulsion.  The case was carried to the next General Conference on Appeal, and that body sustained the action taken by the Conference.

The disability thus hanging over the Presiding Elder of the Janesville District, rendered it necessary that some one should be appointed to represent the District in the Cabinet.  The Bishop appointed me to this duty, thus imposing severe labor for the session.  Since I was appointed to represent the District at the Conference, it was generally supposed that I would be continued the following year, my term having expired at Janesville.  But on the contrary, I was assigned to the Milwaukee District.

This arrangement made Waukesha my place of residence, as the Milwaukee District had erected at this village a District Parsonage.  The inevitable concomitant of the Itinerancy, the moving season, passed in the ordinary course of events, and left us comfortably located in our new home.