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Then I went out in the country near Summitville, Indiana, for a little rest and recreation. I was at Summitville about five weeks and during that time assisted Bro. N. S. Duncan in a series of meetings that God blessed and owned. Shortly after this I felt led to go to Iowa a few weeks to be what help I could to a dear sister who was going through some deep trials.
In our present imperfect state we need, I doubt not, these conflicts to remind us of our frailty, and if only we have grace to profit by them, God will turn them to our good and to His own glory. It is a source of devout thankfulness to those who knew Bro.
In the fall of 1859 he held a successful protracted meeting, and another in the winter with Bro. G. W. Hutchinson. In 1860, he was at the State meeting at Big Springs, at which the ground plan of our present co-operative plan of missionary work was laid. There was also raised at that meeting money to buy a large tent, with which Bro. Butler was to travel and preach as State evangelist.
Scores were converted, many valuable additions were made to the Church, Christians were renewed and developed in piety of heart and life, and the leavening and saving power of the Gospel was extended through the town and surrounding country. This meeting was the beginning and earnest of the blessings and success that has attended Bro.
This brief quotation shows the broadness and completeness of the work, as contemplated by him, and which is now going forward to its accomplishment as never before; and to his almost alone labors at first the work in Kansas can be legitimately traced. During this year a Territorial Board was formed, and Bro.
Jan. 19 "Feel quite worn out; thought Louisa dying; watched with her all night; sent for her aunt, who will watch with her to-night." Jan. 21 "Bro. R. called; decided to send the little ones home; close school for a few days, and take Louisa to the mission house." Jan. 25 "Louisa's aunt took her home at the instance of the Chiefs, who did not like to have the school interrupted."
I felt that even this was too good for me, because I had failed to walk in the light. At the close of the meeting, to my surprise, I found myself under a wrong spirit. I went to Bro. John P. Bailey and wife, who had accepted the truth when Jeremiah preached his first sermon on the church at that place.
H. went to her she said to him: "Husband, don't you know that in the last great day the Lord will say, 'I was a stranger and ye took me in'; and don't you remember how the good Samaritan showed mercy to the man that fell among thieves? Now we believe that this man is an innocent man; and what will the Lord say to us if we turn him out of doors?" At dinner, at the house of Bro.
Samuel Anderson, as our pastor. We also represent our church as in good standing and in full fellowship, numbering twenty-eight members. Bro. Anderson, the bearer of the above letter, came before the Convention and said: "It does yet appear to me that a man's sins are forgiven as soon as he believes; but I do not think that for this cause there ought to be a schism between us.
God said, 'He would stand by me, and who but He, has." I got so many letters from poor, distracted mothers, who wrote so often: "For God's sake come here." In some letters there was money. One letter from a United Brethren church in Winfield, Kansas; the minister, Bro. Hendershot, wrote me that he took up a collection in their church for me of $7.38. How I cried over that letter and kissed it!
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