The Wilkinsburg meeting-house was being built, and that one which had been to her all that the temple ever was to Solomon, would be left to the owls and bats--her Zion desolate.

Those walls, made sacred by visions of glory and shouts of triumph, would crumble to ruin in the clinging silence.

How could she but think that the influence was evil which could bring such result?
The new building was consecrated with much ceremony.

The two Hendersons staid with, us, and on Sabbath morning consulted me as to the best way of taking up subscriptions.

Mother-in-law looked on till she could bear it no longer, and said: "Brother Henderson, if you mean to be in time for love feast, you must not stay fooling there." Both men sprang to their feet, hurried away and never returned.
General Conference at its session in Baltimore, in 1840, passed the "Black Gag" law, which forbade colored members of the church to give testimony in church-trials against white members, in any state where they were forbidden to testily in courts.