with an empty schoolhouse on one side of him and an empty church on the other.

Gentle reader, please ponder this scripture well. the Lord will appear to the joy of the people; but they will be a people tremble at the word of the Lord. They will be hated and cast out by their brethren. Are you one of them?

During the summer I held tent meetings in Dodge Center, Dodge County, in connections with A. H. Vankirk and Frank Coon.

One Sunday evening, as Marshall Vankirk and W. A. Alway were sleeping in the tent, some thieves entered, and appropriated their clothing,---fine shirts, caps, coats, and vests, shoes and stockings. About break of day there came a rapping on my bedroom window. I looked out, and there stood Marshall without hat, coat, shoes, or stockings, with only an undershirt and an old pair of pants on. He made an urgent plea for clothing for himself and Brother Alway, which was immediately responded to. I relate this incident to show some of the experiences of holders of tent meetings. If all would keep the commandments of God, such experiences would be unknown.

The meetings at Dodge Center were well attended. The church was revived, a few were added by baptism, and in the autumn a neat church was built, in which the little flock could worship God.

The summer of 1887, Brother A. H. Vankirk and myself held tent meetings at Mapleton, Blue Earth County. The interest was small, and we saw but little fruit of our labor. We were preparing to open meetings in Winnebago City, when I was called upon to go to Winona, Minn. Elder Shultz, of Nebraska, was conducting a series of German meetings there in a tent with a good interest, which stirred up the enemy of all right to oppose; and he stirred up his children, of whom there were a great number in the city, to tear the tent down, and so stop the work. So on one Sunday evening, when the tent was full of people, a great crowd of half- drunk followers of the beast [papacy]