ginning in the school house and ending in a new church building,
where the disciples worship unto this day. The pleasant recollection
of the names of Brockman, Springer and others will always be
associated with my remembrances at Goffs. It is said that we never
forget anything. I believe this only in part. I think the bad will
be forgotten while the good will be remembered forever. Even the
good Lord has promised that he will remember our sins no more. So I
think He will let us forget the bad forever.

So, too, Pleasant Grove, a country church just south of Effingham one
of the best country churches I ever knew, is where I preached from
the beginning, (I mean my beginning in Kansas) regularly for many
years. It was in the spring of 1868 that two brothers, John and
Jacob Graves, of Pleasant Grove came to Round Prairie where I was
teaching and preaching to hear me, and invited me to Pleasant Grove.
I never found a better preacher's home then the home of Jacob Graves.
Good man, he has gone to this reward in the skies. Brother John
Graves still lives and stands among the first on the list of my old
friends, and in the estimation of all as one of the best men in the
world.

When I think of the fellowship, the kindness, the friendship and the
love of the disciples of Christ, I think and know that His
Christianity is the best thing in the world, and the only thing, as
an organization, that is absolutely necessary for a man to join. In
an early period of the church in Atchison I frequently preached in a
small upper room which would seat about 50 people. This hall was
furnished us free by Gen. W. W. Guthrie.

I remember being in the city one day and remained until evening to
see the fireworks. As I was going down town I met a man who said to
me, "Brother, where are you going." I told him. He said, "Well, you
turn around and go with me to prayer meeting, and then we will have
time to see the fireworks." I asked, "Where is the prayer meeting?"
The answer was, "In the little upper room where you have preached. I
turned around and went, and I still think it is a good thing to do--
to turn around and go to prayer meeting. When we got to the place of
prayer, the minister, M. P. Hayden and three women were there. With
our augmentation there were, in all, six. But we felt, before the
service was over, that another was present, even He who said, "When
two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the
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