the power of government in enforcing our institutions, especially Sunday-keeping, upon the people. We will not ask for support, such as to build our churches, pay our preachers, and the like. We will do that ourselves, only let us be called the great American church, and have the power of the government back of us to enforce our decrees, and thus take away our reproach." No church ever did that until it had lost the power of God.

The summer of 1883 I did not enter new fields, finding plenty to do among the churches already raised up.