continued four evenings. Probably six hundred people or more attended it. In the busy time of haying, people came for miles. It was a remarkable sight to see them in carriages and wagons, on horseback and on foot, streaming toward the tent.

The elder was a veteran debater, the hero of I don't know how many battles. We each spoke four times alternately, each evening, and it was lively time. He took the position that the law of God, Sabbath and all, was abolished. He, however, in his opening speech the last evening of the discussion said he did not teach the abolition of the law at all.

We were very thankful our brother had been led to see the error of his ways. He had held that the law was the ministration of death, which was abolished; while I had all the while contended that the law of Jehovah was as immutable and unchangeable as the throne of God. Now, the last evening of the discussion, he abandoned his position, and came over to ours. We were glad to know the discussion had given us at last one convert to the true faith. In his last and summing-up speech, he endeavered to show that during the discussion he had proved the law was dead, and done away. Thus do men run into absurdities and contradictions' when they oppose the truth. It is impossible for error to run in a straight line.

After the last speech, we sang, "Blessed Are They That Do," after which we asked all to rise who believed the ten commandments ought to be kept. A goodly number arose. Then we said, "all who by the grace of God will keep them, please remain standing; and those who will not keep them, please sit down." Some sat down, while others remained standing, among whom were some of Brother Shoemaker's prominent church members. The audience was immense, and the excitement at fever heat.

When it was seen that a goodly number were determined to keep the Sabbath, the wrath of many arose to a great height. Threats were made, and we did not know what minute an attempt would be made to throw us, tents and all, into the lake. We kept lights burning and a sharp lookout all night.

A lady, while riding home in a wagon, got to disputing with her husband, she contending the Adventists were wrong, and he that they were right. All at once she seemed to be seized with a frenzy, sprang