. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. lds of Romanism in America. Schools,convents, and priests abound. The black-robedministers of Rome move stealthily along thestreets; and I fancied that I could see an ominousshadow in advance, and yet deeper gloom rushing INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 21 after them. Protestantism should be reinforcedin St. Louis. More strong, bold men are wanted,not to fight, but to pray; not to quarrel, but topreach the truth as it is in Jesus. Heaven helpMethodism to do her part in defeating the manof sin, and in diffusing through al
. Incidents of western travel [electronic resource]: in a series of letters. lds of Romanism in America. Schools,convents, and priests abound. The black-robedministers of Rome move stealthily along thestreets; and I fancied that I could see an ominousshadow in advance, and yet deeper gloom rushing INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. 21 after them. Protestantism should be reinforcedin St. Louis. More strong, bold men are wanted,not to fight, but to pray; not to quarrel, but topreach the truth as it is in Jesus. Heaven helpMethodism to do her part in defeating the manof sin, and in diffusing through all the West apure Christianity. On inquiring for the preachers, I found that all(pastors and the editor) had gone to the MissouriConference. Pressed for time, I made haste topurchase a buggy and a pair of horses for the longland travel before me. On consultation, it wasdetermined that I had better go up the Missouririver to Boonville, and take a prairie route, andthus avoid the Ozark Mountains. I lost a day ortwo in time, but gained largely on the score ofroad and 22 INCIDENTS OF WESTERN TRAVEL. LETTEE II. LEAVING ST. LOUIS—HERMANN—PACIFIC RAILROAD—UP THE MISSOURI PERILS OF NAVIGATION BOONVILLE POLITE LANDLORD BOVINE MONSTERS THE PRAIRIES THE OSAGE—WARSAW DEEPENING THE RIVER—LOST KAN-SAS TRAVELLER. My last left me at St. Louis, where, havingsecured an outfit, I put my horses and buggyaboard the Martha Jewett, bound for Lexingtonon the Missouri, and lay over one night, purposingto take the great Pacific Railroad, and to interceptthe boat at Hermann—the point to which the carswere running at the time of my visit. This little town has a German populationdevoted to the culture of the grape, and to wine-making. Here the passengers dined, and, of agreat number, I believe I was about the onlyone who did not test by actual experiment thequalities of the staple product of the place. Theyseemed to relish the flavor of the article, if Imight judge from their comments,
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