Service in the King's guards . s sunshine, shall worktogether for good. Soon the rain ceased, the cloudslifted, and the sun shone forth, it seemed, morebrightly than ever. A ride of two or three miles brought the missionaryto the place of worship. On entering, he found thatsome of the nail kegs had been taken away on oneside, leaving the boards slanting to the ground fromtheir supports on the other side. The only hope forseats now was on what might be concealed in the pileof shavings under the workbench. The eager search,as for hidden gold, was rewarded by finding, at last,blocks and bits of b
Service in the King's guards . s sunshine, shall worktogether for good. Soon the rain ceased, the cloudslifted, and the sun shone forth, it seemed, morebrightly than ever. A ride of two or three miles brought the missionaryto the place of worship. On entering, he found thatsome of the nail kegs had been taken away on oneside, leaving the boards slanting to the ground fromtheir supports on the other side. The only hope forseats now was on what might be concealed in the pileof shavings under the workbench. The eager search,as for hidden gold, was rewarded by finding, at last,blocks and bits of board enough to pile one onanother for supports to the seats. When the con-gregation entered they found the seats in readinessand the house in order. There was no need of anxi-ety as to the ventilation of the room, for the congre-gation could look out on every side, through the cracksbetween the boards, to the sky and the prairie. Whenthe wind blew it was a breezy audience room. In this sanctuary, such as it was, the missionary. o QC DIO QCUJUJ zg Q. A Promising Beginning. 291 held services this day with real delight. There heorganized a church of sixteen members ; and a moreintelligent company of that size was rarely, it isbelieved, organized into a Christian church. That was the day of small things in that railroad has since reached it, the community hasgrown, and the church has gone forward with itsheaven-appointed work, the largest and most indis-pensable factor in the Christian civilization of a greatregion. Five years afterward—years of great immi-gration — it was still twenty miles from any otherchurch of its order north or south, and forty mileseast or west. At first it had been that distance fromany church at all. One of the sixteen original mem-bers writes of its history as follows : — The people who compose the church came to getfor themselves free homes. We came with verylimited means. One man had one hundred dollars ;another, perhaps, two hundred ; ano
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