J. W. Campbell and Ertel
Weaver.
Evangelist Frank Richard wrote of her: "The memory of such a life is
as the lingering twilight after the golden sun has set. It is the
precious memory of a life service. Service to her was a genuine
pleasure. For her Master she served whose guiding hand she trusted.
Her life was genuine, sweet and gentle. A deep religious fervor
characterized it throughout. Pious, consecrated and devout she was.
Her services in the church were highly appreciated. She loved the
church. Her splendid counsel and example were of inestimable worth
to the young people both in and out of the church. In her home the
sweetness of her life was a constant pleasure to her friends and
loved ones. To permeate the home with a Christian spirit was to her
a high aim."
The weight of sorrow brought on us by the death of these two noble
daughters is still so heavy as to bring tears to our eyes and sadness
to our hearts. But we hope in God.
Little Ethel, one of the twins, still lives with her father and a
kind step-mother. May the mantle of her dear mother's goodness fall
upon her and she grow up to be good and happy.
---0---
C H A P T E R F I F T E E N
Places. "Uncle Daniel." Will Price. Visit Ind. 1881.
Return. Golden Rule.
But to return a few years in the events of my humble life, I find
that I attended my first State Teachers' Association in Kansas in
1869.
After I quit teaching I took up regular farming but kept up Sunday
preaching all these many years. Preaching at Farmington, Pardee,
Pleasant Grove, Crooked Creek, Lancaster, Wolf River, Holton, Whiting
Goff, Round Prairie, Valley Falls, Atchison, Hiawatha, Highland,
Netawaka, Corning, Dyke's School House, Topeka, Winthrop, Winchester,
Easton, Nortonville, Effingham, Muscotah and Williamstown. Of course
I did not preach regularly very long for many of these places but
simply made evangelical visits. But for some of them I preached
regularly a number of years.
I preached in Wolf River in Brown County for two years. Every
preacher likes to have wherever he preaches a place, or home, he can
call his headquarters. Well, at Wolf River Daniel Miller's home was
my home. Uncle Daniel Miller (everybody called him Uncle Daniel) was
a devout disciple, and one of the most charitable and hospitable men
I ever knew. Uncle Daniel was a well-to-do farmer and many were the
poor who received from his charitable hand wood, hay, corn, m
|