was called to help in a meeting and the
results was, as usual, some hearing, believed and were baptized. At
the close of the meeting the converts were left pledged to meet on
the Lord's Day to worship God. And I promised to meet with them
every two weeks to preach to them and worship with them. This I did
for a year or two, going afterwards on the Central Branch as far as
Netawaka and then across on a public hack. For I soon returned to
Pardee Station (Farmington).

Speaking of Netawaka, reminds me of being called there in later life
to marry a young Methodist gentleman to a young Mormon lady. And
this reminds me that I have married people of nearly all creeds,
colors and nationalities. So of funerals. The Mormon preacher was
at the Netawaka wedding, but I did not know it until the wedding was
over. To this day I do not know why I was called to this wedding. I
was never treated more kindly and hospitably at any other wedding.
And here let me say that the money I have received for weddings and
funerals, I think is more than I ever received for preaching.

In Netawaka on that day, in the afternoon, I attended the Mormon
public worship. There were about sixty present, and they, except the
groom and his bride, were old people and foreigners. Although the
preacher was present there was no preaching. It was a social, song
and prayer service, and every man and woman took a part except the
newly married couple.

When all had had their turn, an elder, (the father of the bride)
looked at me and said, "Brother you have plenty of time, if you have
anything to say, say it." This was very unexpected to me, but I
stood up and said, "Brethren, if you will allow me to call you
brethren, this is the first time I ever attended your services, and I
must confess that the service, as it seems to me, is much like the
old fashion services of the Methodist and disciples that I attended
when a little boy with my mother, and I feel very comfortable and
much at home. They all said "Amen."

From South Cedar I returned to Farmington and found a nine month's
school waiting for me at fifty dollars per month. So I accepted the
work and continued it for five years at an advanced salary of sixty-five
dollars per month. In the meantime, June the 28th, 1870, I was
married to Miss Rosetta Butler who still lives to bless my life, and
is still a true helpmeet in my old age. Shortly after our marriage
we begin the erection of a new, farm