Nevertheless, on the whole there was an immense gain for good.

The people received a new light, and were given a sense of moral responsibility such as they had not previously possessed.

Much of the work was done badly or was afterwards undone, but very much was really accomplished.

The whole West owes an immense debt to the hard-working frontier preachers, sometimes Presbyterian, generally Methodist or Baptist, who so gladly gave their lives to their labors and who struggled with such fiery zeal for the moral wellbeing of the communities to which they penetrated.

Wherever there was a group of log cabins, thither some Methodist circuit-rider made his way or there some Baptist preacher took up his abode.