. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. an honest, earnest effort. Ourpreachers must learn to try; and if there must bea failure, let the responsibility rest on the people,where it properly belongs. But I am this night we did far better than anybodyexcept myself thought to be possible under thepressure of the times. One old brother went out,as he told me next day, expecting to give, asusual, fifty cents; but, said he, you made mefeel so mean about it, that I actually borrowedtwenty dollars before the meeting was over, tobring myself somewhere
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. an honest, earnest effort. Ourpreachers must learn to try; and if there must bea failure, let the responsibility rest on the people,where it properly belongs. But I am this night we did far better than anybodyexcept myself thought to be possible under thepressure of the times. One old brother went out,as he told me next day, expecting to give, asusual, fifty cents; but, said he, you made mefeel so mean about it, that I actually borrowedtwenty dollars before the meeting was over, tobring myself somewhere near my duty. He gavetwenty-five dollars before the meeting was said he felt better, and meant to do services of the Sabbath were delightful. TO INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. At night we had many mourners, and several con-versions and some additions to the Church. Kextmorning we met at sunrise to wind .up, read outthe appointments, and dispersed every man to hiswork, save one or two who remained to continuethe work so auspiciously begun on the INCIDENTS OP WESTEKN TRAVEL. 71 LETTER VIII. TO Et DORADO DIFFICULTIES AHEAD — A GEORGIA FAM- ILy—a LATE SERVICE—HARD TRAVEL MOUNT IDA A NARROW ESCAPE CADDO GAP. Our journey now lies between Van Buren andEl Dorado, Arkansas. Breakfast over, we pre-pared for the long travel. About ten oclock P. bade our kind friends adieu; and with. BrotherHarris, a preacher of the Arkansas Conference, fora travelling companion, we left for El people who were familiar with the routeassured me that I could hot reach the next Confer-ence in time. I was told the way was lonely,rough, mountainous, almost impassable in manyplaces. With such reports, the idea of troublethree hundred miles long was not very I have learned two simple but importantlessons in my life: first, no man knows what hecan accomplish till he tries: second, things arerarely or never as bad as they are represented. 72 INCIDENTS
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