among the people a knowledge of the present truth, which I did chiefly by visiting and holding Bible readings from house to house.

On Christmas day I had an appointment at the schoolhouse. The thermometer registered fifty-two degrees below zero. Only one man attended, and he was bundled up with two overcoats. We studied the Bible with a hot stove between us, with overcoats on, and were none too warm then.

I held meetings for a while in Mr. Van Norman's house, at Elm Point, and several decided to obey; and then I held some meetings in Coburn's schoolhouse, which were well attended, and a goodly number believed, and some [a Mr. Carscallon and his family] obeyed the form of sound words. One of his sons, --- a noble young man,--- is at college, preparing to go out into the gospel field, and help sound the last message to poor sinners in need of salvation. How glad I was to see him when he came to see me at College View! How glad God's faithful servants will be to meet in heaven with those whom they have rescued from sin and death, by pointing them to the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.

The winter was exceptionally severe. It was nothing uncommon to meet a man with a frozen nose, all unconscious that anything was wrong with this prominent organ of his face, but he would realize it all on coming to the fire. One very cold morning I drove several miles to Elder Scott's---Presbyterian. On arriving, Mrs. Scott exclaimed. ''Brother Hill, your nose is frozen.'' I rubbed it vigorously with snow for a while, after which Mrs. Scott applied kerosene oil. Although for several days my nose had a queer feeling in it, that was all the inconvenience I experienced from the nip I received from Jack Frost.

I went into a house one bitter cold day, and found several men inside having a social chat. They soon found who and what I was, and they began:---

''We don't know what to believe. Here we have the Catholics, and they claim to be the only true church; and we have Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists and they all claim to be in the right; and