. The Iowa band. he spring andsummer time, are the infliienees of sun andshowers! In autunm we gather in the harvests, andreckon up their sum. lUit in the muhitude of bushelsof corn or wheat, more or less, have we a measure ofwhat the sun and showers have done? What factsand figures are of use here? Like sun and showers are gospel influences in astate, as they flow along the channels of individual,domestic and social life. The effects produced arequite as much unseen as seen. They are such as nowords can compass. Human language cannot setthem forth. To attempt, therefore, to point out, inthe f
. The Iowa band. he spring andsummer time, are the infliienees of sun andshowers! In autunm we gather in the harvests, andreckon up their sum. lUit in the muhitude of bushelsof corn or wheat, more or less, have we a measure ofwhat the sun and showers have done? What factsand figures are of use here? Like sun and showers are gospel influences in astate, as they flow along the channels of individual,domestic and social life. The effects produced arequite as much unseen as seen. They are such as nowords can compass. Human language cannot setthem forth. To attempt, therefore, to point out, inthe form of definite and tangible results, wdiat homemissions have done in Iowa may prejudice ratherthan promote our object. It were safer, perhaps, tocontent ourselves with the general impression givenfrom the view we have taken of the workers and theirfield. Nevertheless, we will venture, as to a few points,upon a closer view^; yet so as by the facts and figuresto be reminded constantlv quite as much of the things74. Beginnings — Present edificeEdwards Congregational Church, Davenport RESULTS 75 not told as of those that are. We will begin with anovel scene, — novel indeed for Iowa, and rare evenfor any state. On the 18th of November, 1868, in Muscatine, oneof the busy cities on the banks of the Mississippi, therewas a great gathering at the house of a pastor, AldenB. Robbins, one of the Band. Within that modestdwelling, children had grown up around him; abouthim now were his flock, — parishioners, friends andneighbors, — the largest social gathering the city hadever seen. By his side stood one, not the first toshare his joys and sorrows as wife and companion,but for many years his helpmeet indeed, the fruitageof whose exemplary life of prayerful, earnest toil wasin the scene around her. With him, too, were gath-ered a few — here a brother, and there a sister—ofthose who, twenty-five years ago, were with him atthe beginning of things. The silver wedding theycalled it,
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