place, I intend to show that you are all the children of the devil, and in the third place, I intend to put to you the straight question, whether you intend to cease from thus perverting the right ways of the Lord.”  The preacher, at this point, again, paused and looked over the congregation.  “Now you will say,” he added, “this is going to be a hard sermon.”  “So it is, but if any of you think you can’t sit to hear the truth told you, or in other words, to have your portraits taken, you had better leave now, for it is not polite to go out during the sermon.”  It was now too late to go, if any one felt inclined.  So the sermon proceeded, and commanded respectful attention to its close.  Before leaving, the Preacher was invited to continue the appointment, and consented to do so.

But to return to the Quarterly Meeting.  The people came in great numbers, and the services throughout were deeply impressive.  On Saturday evening, several souls were converted, and on the Sabbath others were added to the number.  But the crowning meeting was held on Sabbath evening.  Before the hour of service had arrived, the school house was full, the seats even having been removed to furnish standing room.  And yet crowds of people were coming from all directions.  I finally proposed to the Elder, that if he would put a man in my place in the school house, I would go over to the nearest neighbor’s house and hold another service.  The private house was soon filled, and in each congregation there were several conversions.

On Monday, January 4th, 1847, Brother Sampson accompanied me to Dr. Bowman’s at Waupun, where he officiated in introducing the Doctor’s eldest daughter to the Itinerancy.

Returning to Watertown, I held protracted meetings at all the outlying appointments, and had the happiness to witness many conversions.  But the year was one of hard labor and small financial receipts.  At its close I found my receipts from the charge were forty-four dollars and my board.  The forty-four dollars were put into the Church enterprise, and I drew on my private funds for my incidental expenses.

The Conference met in Clark Street Church, Chicago, Aug. 11th, 1847.  I passed my Conference Examination, was ordained Deacon by Bishop Waugh, and reappointed to Watertown.

Watertown was now placed in Milwaukee District, with Rev. Elihu Springer, as Presiding Elder.  At the beginning of the new year we opened house-keeping in the upper rooms of a house on the corner of Fourth and Main Streets.  The first floor was occupied as a residence by Judge Enos.

The year opened encouragingly.  The Church in the village required two sermons on the Sabbath, and I had established other appointments in the country which required three a week, besides funeral sermons.  The appointments were Higgins and Bennetts on the south of the village, and Piperville, Concord and Newhouse on the east.  At several of them, during the winter, protracted meetings were held, in addition