Kansas Methodist-Chautauqua from Topeka, Kansas • 7

KANSAS METH0D1ST-CHAUTAUQUA. bluff and vale may feast and feast until he has she bounced back and broke the steps off ous then as later. Accordingly, the Elder gave words to express his admiration of the won- two cars and threw the rear trucks of the the people an earnest, practical sermon, Brother derful works of God. My heart whispered, baggage car and tho front trucks of the smoker Lovejoy an old time exhortation, a prayer meet- off the They ran on for two or three ing followed, and a time of reviving was real 4Tuo Lord be praised." After soma delay at The Dalles, an interest ing and growing city of 1500 inhabiiants, we hundred feet breaking many ties off as if they ized by the good brethren of the place, were pipe stems. Fortunately the train was Thursday morning we starfed on, under the stopped within a few rods of a rocky-bluff guidance of Bro.

R. P. Duvall, pastor of Oska- whereif it had been reached the cars would i00sa Mission, until we reached Grasshopper took the cars at 8 p. m. and reached Moscow, Idaho, by noon on the 13th.

We were qartef- ed at the Johnston Hotel where we fared have been sent down the bank to the river, and paU9 at which point Bro. E. II. Robertson, in well, Mr. an 1 Mta.

Johnston are excellent po- just beyond the rocky bluff was a bridge of charge of that work, took command of tho com- pie and arj iyjII dsarvingf of the patronage considerable length. As it was, no one pany and piloted us on our way northward. At they hive. is a county seat, located in was hurt, and after three hour's work, by two tuis place we met Col "Jim" Lane, with whom a rich rolling valley not needing irrigation, and gangs of men, we got started again, traded off we wero all acquainted. He seemed to be in is 2,700 feet above the sea.

ThetoArn has a our damaged oars for sound ones and by 12 at the best of spirits, and petitioned strongly for nunber of beautiful private residences, two night we reached J'endletou on the main road a preacher to be stationed in Doniphan, in banks and all the paraphernalia of a young city of the Uregon short line. At clock we got and full of hope. Great quantities of wheat started again and by daylight we found our- are raised in these valleys auJ on tlH liiits alid as it seldom or never rains during1 tho summer se.ves arnrJst the slim and tall pines of the Blue mountains. In coming down the mountains we entered the Grande Ronde Valley which is regarded the gem of Oregon. I must not write of Union, Baker City, Huntington, Caldwell and Nampa.

Ac this latter place we chang nths I arris ail granaries are not needed it wheat is seen piled up in sackv, in tho fields and about railway depots. Land sells from $15 to $25 per acre away from towns. 3ut there is much waste land in all these Territories and which he was feeling special interest at that time. '1 hat evening Bro. Duvall gave us a sermon, Bro.

Blanton following with the indis-pansable exhortation. A sudden change of weather caused us of southern Kansas to feel our approach towards the Winter King's quarters, for in place of tho wild onions which had already begun to flavor nearly everything eatable in our Neosho homo, we found piles of snow and blizzardy weather. Early Friday morning we come upon the celebrated "Lane's Road," made the summer before, during the blocked up condition of the Missouri River. That night we all stoppod at a Bro. Wright's.

In those days the houses of Methodists were never too small to entertain ed cars and took tho Idaho Central for 19 in Oregon. Trees grow nicely in Moscow, even miles to Boise City, the seat of the Idaha con- on high places without watering and look vig- ference, which we reached in time for supper. orous. The fine dust of all this country is very Now my fingers must rest. annoying.

In a short time, however, it is said it will be turned into mud and thus a change will TRIP TO CONFERENCE IN KANSAS IN 1837 UAXTKIi 0. DENNIS. come over the character of the grumbling. The Columbia River Conference commenced its session on the 19th and lasted 5i days. It Getting to Conference in Kansas thirty years a company however lame as long as a spare ago was by no moans a child's play, though puncheon could be found.

Hero wo passed the 49 was an unusually harmonious and religious conference. The devotional meetings and there were things about it we recall with inter- first nfht without preaching. The hours how- preaching occ isions were full of the spirit and est. The union of the two territories, Kansas ever were well filled with interesting conversa- of power. I found twelve ministers in the con- and Nebraska, into one Conference, made long tjon gucjj ag j8 common to a company of Meth-ference who had worked in Kansas, namely; 1 and wearisome journeys necessary on the part oc3 ist preachers when together.

Hymns were r. ju; xoung, u. uioson, u. li. vvncox, ot tne preacners Jiving ac me extremes, norm N.

B. Anderson, J. W. Bluett, C. C.

Culmer, or south, if they would enjoy fellowship with A. Maxey, G. W. Rigby, J. C.

Kirkman, John their brethren in these annual reunions. A sung, prayers ofTerod, and a good time generally enjoyed. Near where we stopped was one of nature's curiosities. On the summit of a little mound was a spring of water, tho depth of which at La Cornu, Sidney Smith and W. T.

Robinson, journey of three or four hundred miles on horse- besides some supplies, Rev. Mr. Pierce and Rev. back, with few people to be found oyer a great Mr. Walker are how in the local ranks.

I would portion of the way, would be considered quite that tjmo not been sounded. Tho whole give the appointments of ihsse men, but as the an undertaking these times, and was no less so mound seemed to rest on an uncertain founda- conference has work in Idaho, Washington then, though the arrangement was submitted to tjon ag tue pressure of tho foot would jar and xerruury aim in wregon tne r. kj. auuress witn as good grace as possiojo, as mere was no ghake the whoie mound for several feet around, would not be known. Bishop Ninde said it was other way of transportation for some of the 0 fifteen or twenty miles tho next almost like holding a Kansas conference.

A preachers- 1, being in the southernmost charge mornng toofc ug t0 Turkey creek, where Bro. change of climate, desire for heslth and other in Kansas, had the advantage of a longer travel ouarterlv meeting was to bo hold. reasons lead these men out into this strange than any other member of the Conference, and nros Iu valJ Blanton and L. B. Dennis did the country.

They all wish to be remembered to started early for the seat of the Conference, preaching on Saturday, while the leading of tho their friends and acquaintances. What many which was Nebraska City. Conference met sinmnff then, a all along, was delegated to our- i I. I t- perbons neea is rest ana jreeaom from worry April loth, and intent upon being time, gel stranfre as it mav seem to those who have ana not a cnange or climate. If you hnd a left my work on the mornimg of April 1st better country, better at least than" Eastern making a few days' visit at my father's, near known us in later years, but not so strange to those who knew us then, before deafness had interfered so much with our vocal organs.

Saturday night three persons were forward for prayers and professed conversion. Sunday was Lawrence, closing up my circuit work for the year in the neighborhood of Council Grove. A Quarterly Meeting at Blue Mound occupied Kansas, in many things, you must go to heaven, and it is easier to travel to that land in Kansas than in many other states and territories. While we were in Moscow a steam planing mill took fire and was consumed. The steam part of the time, and on Wednesday the 8tb, a a great day for the disciples of tho neighbor- company of four preachers, L.

B. Dennis, Elder bood Love feast at 9 0ciocfc SQt everything whistle was started and kept up its unearthly of the district, C. II. Lovejoy, pastor of Law. on fire.

C. II. Lovejoy, L. B. Dennis, B.

C. scream all the time and long after the mill bad rence, B. M. Blanton and B. C.

Dennis, each nflnnig an(1 p. Duvall did the nreachino- in been consumed. Finally it exhausted itself and astride his faithful steed, left Lawrence, bound the order named, the sermons beinr? interspersed for "Jerusalem." At the nver in Lawrence we by spicy, powerful exhortations. Six persons saw what I judge had seldom, if ever, been ined the church 0J1 probation, one adult and became silent. The noise was so painful that it suggested danger and many persons stood afar off to behold the fire.

Near noon of the 25th, we bade adue to our new made friends in Moscow and took to the seen beforehand probably never since: two three children were baptied, six or eight pro-steamboats at the wharf unloading frieght. fessed religion, and the dav will not soon bo rrt tr I 1 1 I I ine Kansas river nas never oeen consiaerea orotten by tbose who were there. But we dusty railway again. -We got along fairly, very reliable as a navigaoie stream, tnougn re having the good company of the ministers, until markable expectations were aroused in an early day in that respect by those who first settled on its banks. But early expectations have not postpone the rest of the trip to another letter.

Buckley, Illinois. THE CONSCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURV. From Dr. Lyman Abbott's articlo on "The New Reformation" in the November Century been realized very largely. Our company traveled as far as Oskaloosa we crossed the Snake liver and three or four miles beyond, where we had a mountain on our left and the Snake river on our right, some 75 feet down a steep bank when we ran on a cow.

The catcher on the engine threw her off to the left and striking a wall of stone, placed there to keep the dirt and stone rolling down the mountain from getting on the track, that afternoon and tarried for the night. As usual in those days, whenever ministers were I we quote the following: "Certainly the con-known to be in a neighborhood they were at science of the American people, I should rather once utilized, as preachers were not as uumer- say of the Anglo-Saxon people, never has been.