. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. rayer, I gave out a short metre brother who had been leading the music, raiseda common-metre tune. Thinking to relieve him, Iannounced the metre again. He tried the secondtime, and failed. Seeing that he was embarrassed,I remarked, We will omit singing, and com-menced giving out my text. When I had statedbook, chapter, and verse, another brother, appa-rently resolved upon a song, tried his voice upon atune. He missed badly. Supposing that he hadnot heard me, I said a little louder, We will omitsinging, and agai
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. rayer, I gave out a short metre brother who had been leading the music, raiseda common-metre tune. Thinking to relieve him, Iannounced the metre again. He tried the secondtime, and failed. Seeing that he was embarrassed,I remarked, We will omit singing, and com-menced giving out my text. When I had statedbook, chapter, and verse, another brother, appa-rently resolved upon a song, tried his voice upon atune. He missed badly. Supposing that he hadnot heard me, I said a little louder, We will omitsinging, and again was telling where my textmight be found, when, to everybodys amusement,and nearly to the overthrow of my gravity, a thirdman lifted his voice, and the sound sprangledamong notes generally, without specifying privilege of laughing would have been a 110 INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. relief, but that would have been a rare preface to asermon, and so, holding my muscles to the rightplace by a stern will, I proceeded with the textand the discourse. It was a good INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. Ill LETTER XIII. MOVING FORWARD—FACE OF THE COUNTRY MINE HOST —ON TRAINING CHILDREN THE MAN WHO HAD SEEN A BISHOP EXHORTATION TO OUR EDITORS WORKING WITH THE BAPTISTS AT MOSCOW. Leaving the house of Brother Box, where wehad been lodging for two days, we set out for thenext appointment. The. ride on Monday took usthrough a wilderness. Habitations were few andfar enough apart to allow what these Westernpeople all want—a range of cattle. Much of theland over which we travelled would, in the oldStates, be considered valuable. Here it is consid-ered very moderate. It is well timbered—mostlypine, and partly oak—and I fancy fine for is scarce, and when found is not much of aluxury. We crossed the ISTeches, a stream verynarrow but very deep. If the flat-boat had beenthree feet longer, it would have been a bridge—new style, but very safe. Late in the evening wereac
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