The congregation was small, and, therefore, I obtained an opportunity to study individual character.

It was a very difficult field of labor, and it is good for a minister to bear the yoke in his youth.

My work at first was attended with many discouragements.

I preached as pungently as I was able, but no visible results seemed to follow.

One day the wife of one of my two church elders came to me in my study, and told me that her son had been awakened by the faithful talk of a young Christian girl, who had brought some work to her husband's shoe store.