circle. One evening it would be at
brother Anderson's house, and the next evening at another brother's
house, and so on until the meetings had gone around the whole
community. A deep work of grace was in progress. The whole community
felt the pervading influence of the Spirit, and large results
followed. Anderson was wrought upon powerfully. He felt to
reconsecrate himself to the Master, and live a more faithful life.
This feeling manifested itself in the lives of those who were
professors of religion, and the ungodly were anxious about their
salvation.

From a very few believers the company of the redeemed had largely
increased. One house would not accommodate them, and it became
necessary for them to hold their meetings outdoors. It became very
evident that this company of believers ought to be organized into a
church, and a pastor placed over them. Duke William Anderson was the
man to do this work, and, seeing the necessity of it, he immediately
organized a Baptist church.

He was a man who never desired to escape difficult duties--rather, he
always was on hand when hard burdens were to be borne. He approached
duty as something that, though at the time hard, brought peace in the
end. He loved the approbation of conscience, and never sought to turn
away from her teachings.

It is a task seldom, if ever, coveted by the ministers of to-day, to
attempt the building of a church edifice, though wealth, art, and all
modern facilities await their beck.

And one can easily imagine what a formidable task it must have been to
attempt the building of a church thirty years ago. He organized a
church out of those who had accepted the Gospel. And the next work was
the building of a house of worship. He put his great hand to this
work, and in a short time the house was completed and his people
worshipping under their own vine and fig-tree.

The house was unique, spacious, and comfortable, all in keeping with
the plain people and their unpretentious pastor.

There is a great deal in discipline, and Anderson knew it. Before the
organization of his church the people had been placed under no
discipline or charged with any special work. But now their leader
began the work of church discipline and practical preaching. The
feeling that every person was his own man, independent and free, under
the preaching of Anderson, gave way to the feeling that they were
members of one body, and Christ the head of that body. The unity of
the ch