"Sir, what mean these
tears, are they tears of joy or tears of sorrow?" He answered,
"Tears of sin, I suppose, for while I was listening to you preach I
was only wishing that I could have the strong faith which you seem to
have." He had lost his faith by forgetting his first love. "He that
loves not, obeys not. Not everyone that saith to me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the will of
my father, which is in Heaven, Jesus."

Notwithstanding the many attractions of interest, love and friendship
among my relatives, and friends of old Indiana I had not been there
four weeks until my heart was fully set to return to Kansas. And why
not? Had I not left there a dear wife and five little children?
Count, boys, how old you were then. Clara and Edith also. Edith was
less than a year old. But I had fondled her so much upon my knees
and call her by "Great Blue Eyes" and sang to her so much

"Baby Bunn baby bunn
Great Blue Eyes
Looking now so merry
Now so very wise."

That upon my return home on the night train, when on entering the
home in the darkness of the night, that I might not frighten anyone I
call out, "Where are my big blue eyes?" Little Edith being awake and
hearing me, cried out at once, "Papa, Papa."

Upon my return home I resumed my work. Crooked Creek was one of my
regular places for preaching quite a while. I remember preaching
there a sermon on the Golden Rule so called. In my discourse I used
the same basic principles and words that Christ used in his Sermon on
the Mount. But afterwards a certain disciple said, "It is no use to
preach that way, for no one can live up to such teaching." But it
turned out in a few years afterwards that that disciple made, (and is
to this day) one of the most faithful, obedient and sacrificing
members of the Church of God. Thus it seems that the Word preached
may kill or make alive. In this case it seems to have done both.

In the labors of my life as a preacher, my work was mainly confined
to the churches, and not to the world. I knew nothing however but to
preach the gospel and teach the word. So I think the gospel is the
power of God to salvation to both saints and sinners.

At another place one had heard, believed and wanted to be baptized,
but her husband said, "He who baptizes my wife endangers his life."
I said to the believer, "I will risk it." I baptized her. In two
weeks I preached again