offered to send word all over the settlement and notify the
people, if we would stay and preach that night. We accepted his
offer, and remained, thus securing the rest that we so much
needed, thanking God for still remembering and caring for us, His
servants.

Agreeably to arrangements, we preached in the Methodist meeting-
house to a very attentive audience upon the first principles of
the gospel. We alluded to the treatment of Christ and His
followers by the Pharisees and Sadducees, the religious sects of
those days, and said that we preached the same gospel, and fared
but little better. This meeting-house had been built conjointly
by Methodists and Universalists. Members from both persuasions
were present. Our neighbor who had fed and cared for us leaned to
the latter faith.

At the close of our remarks the class leader who had set the
hounds on our track was the first to the stand to invite us home
with him. I told him that the claims of those who did not set
their dogs on us, after they had turned us from their doors
hungry, were first with me - that his claims were an after
consideration. He said it was his negro boys that sent the hounds
after us; he would not be bluffed. He said that one of us must go
with him - that if I would not go Brother Frank must go. I told
him that Elder Edwards could use his own pleasure, but I would
hold a meeting that night with our Universalist brethren; and
thus we parted.

Elder Edwards went to spend the night with the class leader,
while I attended a meeting with the friends who had invited me
home with them. I had a good time. Of their own accord they made
up a collection of a few dollars as a token of their regard for
me. I was to meet Elder Edwards at the house of my friend who
took us in at midnight from the storm, an hour before sun; but he
did not put in an appearance for an hour after. When he got
within talking distance I saw by his features that he had been
roughly dealt with. His first words were:

"He is the wickedest old man that I ever met with, and, if he
don't repent, God will curse him."

That was enough, and I began to laugh. I conceived what he had to
encounter the long night before. He said:

"If the Lord will forgive me for going this time, I will never go
again unless you are along." I said to him:

"Brother Frank, experience teaches a dear school, yet fools will
not learn at any other. I knew what treatment you would receive,
and refused to go. I