On motion, the Convention adjourned to the time and place appointed.

C. W. MOCK, Chairman.

W. O. FERGUSON, Secretary.

The convention in its results was full of encouragement and joy.  Insignificant as had been our beginning two years before, here were twenty churches and more than one thousand members ready to cooperate together and plant the cause in this infant Territory.  This meeting also introduced us to many new acquaintances.  Eld.  S. G. Brown, of Emporia, had been diligently employed planting churches along the Neosho River from Emporia to Leroy.  Bro.  Ephraim Philips, at Leroy, also at that time became known to us.  Bro.  Philips, after some years, returned to Pennsylvania, and there went into the oil business with his brother; the brothers were successful, and afterwards distinguished themselves by a generous and Christian liberality.  Bro.  Crocker also, before his death, had won a large place in the hearts of his brethren.  Elder Wm, Gans, at that time of Lanesfield, but afterwards of Olathe, will long be remembered with earnest affection; and it was at this time that he became known to us.

For reasons that we have already mentioned, the General Missionary Society had done nothing for us, but seeing that we were fighting a brave battle, and that we were keeping the peace with each other, they felt themselves moved to help us.  Eld.  D. S. Burnett was at this time employed preaching in Western Missouri, and was deputed by the Missionary Board to visit G. W. Hutchinson at Lawrence, who was winning golden opinions as an eminently successful evangelist.  Bro.  H. was not at home, but was away holding a protracted meeting, and Bro.  Burnett therefore called on his wife.  Mrs. Hutchinson was a pious, refined, and educated New England woman, who had married her husband after he had become known as the most successful evangelist in the “Old Christian Order” in the New England States.  She had with pain seen him turned aside from his chosen work by hard necessities, and was now greatly rejoiced to see him once more a preacher.  Bro.  B. was an accomplished gentleman, whose polished and cultivated manners sometimes laid him open to the charge of a proud and aristocratic exclusiveness; but this Yankee lady herself knew how to queen it, and stood before him with no sense of inferiority.  She frankly said to him that herself and husband were abolitionists, but that they knew the value of peace, and would do what could be done, in good conscience, to make peace and keep it.  Bro.  Burnett evidently went away from Lawrence with a good opinion of this family of Yankee abolitionists, and Bro.  H. was immediately accepted as a missionary of the General Missionary Society.  He used quietly to indicate to me that, as touching this interview, his wife was a better general than himself, and that it was lucky for him that he was not at home.