of our yearly meetings, still he was already an evangelist.  He had been in Ohio the friend and companion of James A. Garfield, and soon came to be known as one of the first pulpit orators of the State.  The government, like death, “loves a shining mark,” and claimed Bro.  McCleery for its service, and he is now an army chaplain.  The churches will never cease to regret his choice, and yet he had a right to make it.

2.  The facts do not bear out the remark of Bro.  S. T. Dodd, that “from 1856 to 1865 anything like church work was as good as thrown away.”  With seventy-nine churches organized, and with upwards of three thousand church members in the State, work could scarcely be said to be “as good as thrown away.”

3.  Notwithstanding, the facts bear witness that there were grave imperfections in our work.  After a heroic battle, fought under insuperable difficulties, and when there was every promise of still more brilliant triumphs, the cause went into an eclipse, from which it emerged only after many years of disaster.

From and after the year 1875, the churches spread themselves over a territory of two hundred miles in width and four hundred miles in length, and a great number of men became responsible for the good or the evil that should come on the cause of primitive and apostolic Christianity.  It is probable that since the period of which we are speaking, 100,000 Disciples have located somewhere in these Western Territories.  If the church should now undertake to make inquisition for these church members, and make inquiry into their present condition, temporal and spiritual, the story of their wants and woes would be full of pathetic eloquence.

Since the days of the apostles an enthusiasm never has been known greater than that which was felt by the men who, under God, are responsible for this Reformation.  In the beginning of the present century the missionary spirit among Christians was dead, and their zeal was wasted in disgraceful squabbles over inoperative and metaphysical opinions, or over modes of church government of which the Bible knows nothing.

The Protestant sects were divided into two hostile camps, known as Calvinists and Arminians.  The Calvinist dogma was that Jesus died only for the elect, who were chosen in a by-gone eternity; that all men are spiritually as dead and helpless as was the cold dead dust of the earth out of which Adam was created, but that God will quicken into a new life dead sinners who are of the elect, and will give them evidence of their acceptance by the joyful emotions which he will create in their hearts.  And so the supreme interest of men centered in this, that they were to seek in their own hearts those raptures and ecstasies that were evidence that they had experienced this spiritual change.  The Arminians gloried in a free salvation.  Christ died for all.  But they demanded identically the same evidence of pardon demanded by the Calvinists,