This Christian heroine was baptized, and her husband compelled her to walk home, a distance of six miles, he driving just ahead of her all the way, but not suffering her to get into the wagon. After reaching home, I was told, he threw all her Adventist publications into the fire, and the poor woman had a hard time of it for awhile; but she continued faithful, trusting in God, and He gave her the victory.

About three months afterward, as I entered the Mankato Adventist church one Sabbath morning, I saw the gentleman and his wife, sitting side by side, as cozy as could be. I said to him: "I am very much surprised to see you here."

"Well," he said, "I have decided to go with my wife."

If the other lady had been equally firm, and true to her convictions, she too, might be rejoicing, with her husband, in the blessed hope. How dost thou know, O wife, but thou mayest gain thy husband; but no wife can gain her husband by yielding her convictions of truth and duty.

Tenhassen Fall, 1879

I held meetings the next fall at Tenhassen, Martin County, in the same schoolhouse in which, years before, I had taught school. I had quite an experience getting there. Night overtook me, and it was very dark, and I lost my way on the sparsely settled prairie. I kept driving on, sometimes in the road and sometimes out of it, not knowing whither I was going. At last I ran on to a house which proved to be Brother Wilson's. I was made welcome, it was much more agreeable than wandering in the cold and darkness. The next morning, while running behind the buggy to get warm, my horses ran away. My trunk went bobbing up and down, turned over on its side, and I expected every moment to see it fly out; but it did not. Some men ahead of me, in a wagon, stopped my horses before much damage was done.

When I reached the meeting, I found the brethren about ready to disperse. They had waited so long they had become discouraged, and had given up hopes of my coming. Our meetings at Tenhassen were well attended, and some were convinced of the truth, and joined the little company of believers.

One evening, after I had spoken with a good degree of freedom on the Sabbath question, a gentleman went through the audience shaking