e could not return, but I went on with the meeting
and it proved to be one of the best meetings I ever held. Quite a
number believed and were baptized. The meeting was held in a large
natural grove near where there was much water, and was lighted with
great torch lights. At nearly every service people would come
forward and make the good confession, and often were baptized the
same hour, even the same hour of the night.

One day an old man, seventy two years old, and six feet four inches
tall, a Christian in the Methodist church for many years, came to me
and asked me if I would baptize (immerse) him and let him remain in
the Methodist church. I said, "Certainly, I will baptize any man who
wants to be if he believes in the divinity of Christ." He was
baptized (immersed) and was a happy man.

At another time when I had baptized some, and was coming up out of
the water, I said, "If anyone else is ready to obey his Master I will
gladly bury him with his Lord in Baptism."

An Irishman, who had been faithfully attending the preaching pulled
off his coat, and came down into the water, meeting me, he took me by
the hand and lead me back into the deeper water. When I asked him if
he believed with all his heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
he answered, "Yes, for--today." I dipped him, and he came up out of
the water a happy man.

My school here was very pleasant in almost every respect. Only one
incident occurred that was otherwise, and that turned out well. A
family of one brother and two grown sisters had only one speller
between them. I complained and sent word several times to their
father that he ought to get a speller for each of his children. So
one day at noon he came over to school and took up a book and sat
down by me with the open book and said, "One book is enough for
three. I can see and so can you so could another on the other side
of me. One book is enough for three, I shall buy no more books." "I
see," I said. "Goodbye" he said, and off he went. After that I had
the brother sit between the two sisters and all study from the same
book. Now at this time McGuffey's spellers were the only spellers
used in all the schools. Webster's had been out of use for almost a
generation, but, in about a week after this father had called at
school, as stated above, he went at Atchison City and somehow and
somewhere he found and procured three new Webster's old blue back
spelling books, and his child