There were new roofs and one or two new houses along the road.  The men had been so busy fixing shelter for themselves and their neighbors that they had done nothing toward cutting trees out of the way.  I got through in time to dry out a little, take supper with brother Lusty and attend the Christian Endeavor meeting with him.  Twenty were present; they have now twenty-six active members.  Next morning, I examined the buildings, found the church building injured but little, it having moved only two or three inches on its foundation.  But the school-house was the next thing to an utter wreck.  It will have to be rebuilt.  After dinner I rode fourteen miles to Wartburg, making twenty-eight miles, Friday.

Saturday morning, I rode twenty miles before dinner to Harriman, made several calls, led the Sunday-school teachers’ meeting at night, and a business meeting afterwards.  I had charge of the Sunday-school the next morning, heard a sermon by a Methodist brother in the afternoon, after which I completed the organization of our “Pilgrim Congregational Church of Harriman.”  We organized with fifteen members.  At night I led a praise service, the room being packed full.  Monday morning, I was in the saddle again, calling at the new town of Cardiff, and getting home, after riding twenty-two miles, in time for a late dinner.  This kind of work does not give me much time to enjoy (?) blue Monday!

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ENCOURAGED AND THANKFUL.

(From a Lady Teacher in the Mountains.)

We have been greatly encouraged in our work.  A marked earnestness has been expressed by our scholars.  The industrial building has afforded work for a number.  Our boys enjoy their work much and are so thankful they “can git to go to school.”  Many of the older scholars who enter our school have never had any advantages, or, as they express it “pow’ful bad chance of gittin book-larnin.”

They are willing to take their places with the small children.  It is really pitiful to see the embarrassment of a young man of nearly thirty years, when he cannot read a single sentence in the Second Reader.  Two years ago, a young man entered my department who had not attended school in fourteen years.  He actually knew nothing; one week he did nothing but listen.  He was ashamed; he thought he could not stand it.  He was a Christian young man, and asked God to help him.  His progress has been a wonder.  To-day, he stands at the head of his grade and conducts one of our out-station Sunday-schools every Sabbath.  He has an excellent influence among his people, seeing their needs, and his great desire is to carry the blessed news of the gospel among his own people.  The possibilities of our girls and boys God only knows.