In the forepart of December past our church held a memorial service for him, and many pleasant things about his relation to dear brethren and sisters were spoken of.  The relation between him and myself was always very pleasant, and I delight to bear testimony to his great ability and grand life and character.  I regarded him as my father in the gospel, and he was a source of great help and strength to me.

The tent of which Bro.  Campbell speaks was made by the ladies in the Pardee school-house.  In size it was forty by sixty feet, the roof being shaped like the roof of a house.  The second State meeting, and many district meetings, were held in it; and father used it in his meetings for nearly ten years, when it was finally torn up by a storm.

In the fall of 1860 the Missionary Society wished him to visit Indiana again, to stir up an interest, and collect his salary.  I find no report of his work that winter, except this item from one of his letters:  “There have been seventeen additions at meetings which I have recently attended—­six at Brownsburg, Hendricks county, and eleven at Springville, Lawrence county, Ind.”

I have found the note-book which he kept from November, 1860, to November, 1861, in which I find this account:  He received #368.50; traveling expenses, $72.55, leaving for his year’s work, $295.95.  That was the year of the “drouth,” and he apprised the brethren where he preached of the destitution in Kansas.  Dr. S. G. Moore and my uncle, Prof.  N. Dunshee, of Pardee, had been appointed to receive contributions for destitute brethren; and they reported the receipt and distribution of $670.96, besides boxes of clothing.

After father’s return, in March, 1861, he traveled almost constantly.  I have found, in the note-book mentioned above, the time and place, and either the subject or text of each sermon he preached that year, one hundred and fifty-three in all.  Here are some of the subjects named:  “The Gospel;” “Christian Union;” “Kings of Israel;” “Noah and the Deluge;” “Types of the Law;” “For What Did Jesus Die?” “Baptism, its Authority and Design;” “From Whence Ami? and Whither Am I Going?” “The Material Results of Christianity;” and “The Kingdom of Heaven.”

Father had spent all of the money that was due him from property sold in Iowa, except a thousand dollars, with which he intended to pay his debts, and finish paying for land in Kansas.  While he was in Indiana that spring that amount was forwarded in a draft to mother.  The war was just breaking out, and by the time she could write to father and receive his instructions as to its disposal, the bank broke, and he lost a large part of it.  He had already been running in debt for necessary expenses, hoping each year that his support would be increased, and the loss in the bank threw him so much in debt that he felt it would be impossible for him to preach much longer.