The only persons seriously hurt were L.L.  Lee and L.S.  Kellogg.  The first was compelled to carry a hand in a sling for a long time, and the latter was considerably injured by a blow from a club on the head.  The blood ran freely, but he was able to attend the Law and Order Meeting the following morning.  His speech on the occasion became a watchword among the people.  He said in a very resolute manner, “Our Fathers fought for freedom, both civil and religious, and if we have got to fight the battle over again I am ready, and I am willing that my blood should be the first to flow.”  The city appropriated one hundred and fifty dollars to repair the damages done to the Church edifice.

Bishop Waugh made us a visit near the close of the year.  He was on his way to the Conference to be held at Waukesha, and went with us to the Camp-Meeting at Brookfield.  Spring Street Station made no inconsiderable part of the Meeting.  She pitched a tent that would accommodate one hundred and fifty persons, and it was well filled from the beginning to the end of the Meeting.  It was a Meeting of great power.  None who heard the exhortations of the good Bishop at the close of his Sunday morning sermon can ever forget it.  After holding the vast congregation spell-bound for more than an hour in the delivery of the sermon, the old man, with locks as white as the driven snow, came down from the stand, and, standing on a seat in the Altar, began to invite mourners.  The motives of the Gospel were presented one after another, the tide of feeling rising, until the Bishop was master of the occasion, and seemed to sway the people at his pleasure.  The Bishop’s voice grew grandly eloquent as his great soul rose to the level of the effort, and before it and its burden of truth, the people began to bend, then brake, and finally flew to the Altar.  Nor did the exhortation cease until the Altar was literally crowded with seeking penitents.

The Scandinavian work was this year opened in Wisconsin.  To further this object the Missionary Management at New York sent forward Rev. C. Willerup, placing him at the beginning under my care.  On reaching the city he found the population using the Scandinavian language too small to organize the work, and we deemed it advisable to explore the interior.  To do this he must have an Itinerant’s outfit, consisting at least of horse and saddle-bags.  While he was employed in settling his family in a rented house, I visited the market and purchased a horse for him and the other necessary articles, using my own funds until drafts should be received from the Missionary Treasury.  The desired location for the first Mission was found at Cambridge, where Brother Willerup organized a Society and subsequently erected a Church edifice.  From this small beginning has since grown a family of charges and a line of able Ministers, constituting a Presiding Elder’s District.

The Conference year had now come to a close.  Many changes had occurred in Spring Street Station.  In consequence of the cholera, and the consequent stagnation of business, large numbers of the people went into the country.  But notwithstanding this depletion, such had been the number of accessions, one hundred and seven in all, that I was able to report one hundred and fifty-seven members and sixty-three probationers, making a total of two hundred and twenty.