ren brought them to school to use. When
I saw them I said, "Sure, these are the best books ever made,--the
very kind I studied when I was a boy. Maybe your father can secure
enough for the whole school. And since one is enough for three, it
would not take so many." "There is only this trouble. Until we can
make the change, you three will have to be in a class by yourselves."
So I kept the brother and two sisters in a class, with their blue
back spellers, to themselves. But, listen, in about a week more the
class of three came to school each with McGuffey's speller.

Sometimes the best way to overcome an adversary is to agree with him.

One Saturday evening I went across to North Cedar to preach and when
I got to the school house, while there was a large crowd in the yard
waiting to hear me, the door to the school house was locked and the
trustees said, it should not be opened for me to preach. An old
disciple of Christ, who lived nearby, said that I was welcome to
preach in his house. I said to the crowd, "If you will follow me
over there, I will preach." Nearly everyone followed. I simply
preached the truth, Christ, and in my sermon referred to that text
which says something about "These that have turned the world upside
down are come hither also."

Well, the next morning the world had the same side up as before only
that school house door had turned on its hinges and was wide open for
me to come in and preach. Which I did, morning and evening, and was
invited back again and again.

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C H A P T E R T H I R T E E N

Holton. Netawaka. All said, "Amen." Farmington. Married.
Our home. Little Wiley Warren.

While teaching and preaching here on South Cedar I began preaching on
Sundays at Holton. I preached in the school house, court house, or
any empty room that might be found that was suitable. I found
suitable headquarters for my stay in the hospitable home of an old
disciple of Quaker origin whom everybody called Uncle Tommy Adamson.
He was a true lover of God.

The Presbyterians kindly offered me their house to occupy when they
were not using it. My recollection is, that theirs was the only
church in the town at that time. The Methodist, who like we had been
preaching in the school house about this time, possibly a little
earlier, had erected a new, brick church building. Well, the gospel
was preached and a number seemed interested and brother J. H.
Bauserman State Evangelist