all feel toward him as I feel. I hope that he will long live to tell the
truth as he has in days gone by; and if he was in this city where the
evil is so strong, we should hear him sounding the watchword, and that
is the reason that those that loved the ways of sin did not like him,
for they felt that he had cause to trouble them while they were yet in
their sins.

But I hope that the day will come when I shall hear him again in this
city, and I hope that God will give him long life and that he may see
the travel of his soul and be satisfied, for I know that he tries to do
God's will in this love that he has for humanity and that is why the
Lord will bless him in all the work that his hands find to do.

I was not at home when he left this city and I felt sad when I found
that he was gone, for we shall ever miss him. My prayer is to God that
he may live to a good old age and that when he shall be called to come
up higher that he may be caught up in the air to meet his Lord and
Master and all of those that have gone on before, and be ready to Crown
Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Progress of Church Work

A speech to a crowded church, in the year of our Lord 1888, in Talcott,
Summers Co., W. V. I was asked to have this published out there, but I
wanted to have it brought to my home in Brooklyn. I was into so much
work out there, and my people were not there to see what the Lord did
help me to do:

Dear friends, we are here to-night to commemorate this grand occasion,
and our watchword is Onward and Upward to the Prize!

This is a time that we should all shout the Jubilee and to send the glad
tidings to all the world and to let all the nations know that we are on
our march to that happy land of song.

Dear friends, let us look for a few moments and think of the time when
you had not a church where you could worship God. I told you that God
would give you this lovely place, where no one could drive you out, and
to see what great things He has done for you in a little time, and how
great things can He not do if we will only trust Him? We have those of
our race that have held places of greatest trust and God bless them in
those places. Why should we give up the fight and lay our armor by when
there is so much for us to do? No, no, we can not and we will not lay
the grand old armor down, for the Lord is on our side and we shall
surely conquer if we look to Him whose arm is so large and strong. Then
let us