CHAPTER XXXIII.
Whatever may have been thought by a certain class of men, when the writer began his work in Kansas, it is now universally admitted among the Disciples that temperance work is legitimate church work--that the saloon being an enemy to our homes and our families, and the greatest peril that confronts the church and nation, its extinction is a legitimate object of Christian endeavor.
There was a young evangelist prominently engaged with us in our early work whose history is so sad, and whose relations, who are of the excellent of the earth, have already had their hearts so wounded because of him, that I have not been able to bring myself to write his name.

He was of Irish descent, and before he became a preacher, or even a disciple, and while learning his trade, he had formed the drinking habit.

He was not a young man of brilliant gifts, but they were solid.

Moreover, he was humble, patient, industrious and persevering, and, having excellent health and a good physical organization, he gave promise of enduring usefulness.

In short, he belonged to that class of young men that, while the people do not spoil them with flattery, yet the church set a great store by them.