It is by no weak, sickly, faint-hearted, lukewarm, languid, and spasmodic efforts that the cause is to be kept alive.  God will have all or nothing.  This is an age in which, if never before, both good men and bad men are truly in earnest.  The devil is fearfully and terribly in earnest “Therefore rejoice you heavens, and you that dwell in them Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knoweth he hath but a short time.”

We must give till we feel it.  The widow’s mite was most precious in the eyes of Jesus, because it was her all.

The objects we aim at are unquestionably scriptural.  “Go disciple all nations.”  This was the Saviour’s last command.  To sustain our missionaries by the free-will offering of our brethren—­this is also scriptural.

CHAPTER XXXII.

In the year 1865 the State meeting was held at Prairie City.  Meantime, however, a vigorous local district organization had been maintained from the first in Northeastern Kansas.  This year its annual meeting was held at Leavenworth City, continuing from the first till the 4th of June.  In addition to the ordinary purposes for which this meeting was held, it undertook to perfect the Missionary Society that had been organized the preceding year at Tecumseh.

Among all the conventions held in Kansas, whether of State or District, this must be regarded as the most notable: 

1.  It offers devout thanksgiving to the Lord for the return of peace to the nation:  “Resolved, That with hearts full of gratitude to Almighty God, we hail the return of peace to our long distracted country.”

2.  After seven years of labor, beginning in 1858, and ending in 1865, notwithstanding the disorders of the period, this Convention is able to give a tabulated report of seventy-nine churches organized in the State with their bishops, deacons and evangelists, and having an aggregate of 3,020.

3.  It is able to report a missionary society, that in the eight months intervening between the Tecumseh State meeting and the present Convention, has collected and paid over to its four evangelists—­J; H. Bauserman, Pardee Butler, S. G. Brown and J. J. Trott—­the sum of $827.

4.  The Convention was able to adjourn, full of hope and enthusiasm, and to promise itself that it would do a still better work in the time to come.

The names of the following persons appear as the accredited messengers of the churches:  Leavenworth—­J.  C. Stone, G. H. Field, S. A. Marshal, H. Allen, J. T. Gardiner, Calvin Reasoner.  Ottumwa—­J.  T. Cox, Wm. Gans, J. Jenks, Peter Smith.  Tecumseh—­J.  Driver, M. Driver, A. J. Alderman.  Americus—­W.  C. Butler, S. S. Chapman.  Le Roy—­S.  G. Brown, Allen Crocker.  Little Stranger—­J.  H. Bauserman, S. A. Lacefield, J. Adams, J. P. Bauserman.  Iola—­S.  Brown.  Nine Mile—­N.