discovered that the resurrection day is the seventh and not the first day of the week, as stated by the inspired apostles.''

''Every one can see if we accept Brother Fuller, we must repudiate the apostles. If we accept the apostles, we must repudiate Brother Fuller. We propose to stand by the inspired Word of God and not by Brother Fuller's count. Come, Brother Fuller, over on to the Lord's side of this question, and then no more twenty years' hard study to sustain a weak cause. No more laborious counting. No more reading such a huge pile of books to ascertain which day is the Sabbath. All he will have to do is to take God at His word. Open the blessed Bible and read: 'The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,' Ex. 20: 10, and the work is done.''

Some not of the faith were displeased with the reply, but our brethren were not only strengthened in the truth, but their eyes fairly shone with delight. Truth never loses by being contrasted with error.

Trip to Lake Joanna December, 1876.

In December Brother Decker took Brother Nelson and myself to Lake Joanna, to see if there was a good opening in that vicinity for a course of lectures. One Sunday we drove in the face of the northwest wind, and it was stinging cold. I was blue with cold when we drove up to a Scandinavian brother's, with whom we were to remain overnight. A good fire soon warmed us up.

Our cold ride had sharpened our appetites, And as the good housewife was preparing supper, I boasted what ample justice I could do to the coming repast. The supper consisted almost entirely of a Scandinavian dish made of potatoes and flour, entirely new to me. I took a lot of it on my plate, and attacked it as only a hungry man could. Imagine my surprise and disappointment; I could not eat the mess at all. Do what I would I could not possibly swallow the mixture. I would not have cared if I had not informed them of my hunger, and what great things I was going to do at the supper table.

The cold that night was intense. The house was a frail affair of one room, and was not well calculated to retain the heat or keep out the cold. As soon as the fire burned low, it was as cold as Greenland. There was an old mother dog with a lot of little ones in the house. When the fire would go down, the puppies would ''Ti, yi! Ti, yi!'' and