This tendency had begun to be apparent before I left Iowa.
When it became manifest that I could not any longer find a field of labor in Southeastern Iowa, I was recommended to the churches in the counties of Schuyler and Brown, in the Military Tract, Illinois.
My first introduction among them was dramatic, if, indeed, we could give to an incident almost frivolous and laughable, the dignity of a dramatic incident; and yet the matter had a serious side to it.

I had been commended by Bro.

Bates, editor of the _Iowa Christian Evangelist_, to the church at Rushville, where I held a meeting of days.

The meetings grew in interest, there were some important additions, and the church was greatly revived.

Twelve miles from Rushville was the town of Ripley, a small village, where the people were engaged in the business of manufacturing pottery ware.