CHAPTER X.

LABORS IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA

In the spring of 1898, I held meetings in Cheney, a little town about seven miles from home, with indifferent success. Some evil-disposed persons stopped the stove pipe with old rags and perpetrated the stale-egg act, smearing some very nice laprobes with them, and altogether it proved to be an unprofitable field.

During the summer I held tent meetings at Arlington and York with Elders Thompson and Johnson. We saw some fruit of our labors at the latter place. We labored hard and earnestly, but the results were not as rich as we greatly desired them to be. Why do people reject the blessed saving truth for this time! But so it has ever been. Noah's message of mercy and warning was despised and rejected. The prophets were rejected and slain. Christ came unto His own, and His own received Him not. And so it is in the last days.

At the State camp meeting, which was held at York that year, it was decided that Brother W. J. Wilson and I should labor together in the southeast corner of Nebraska, including Lincoln and College View.

In February 1899, I went as a delegate from Nebraska to the General Conference, which was held at South Lancaster, Mass. We had a terrible storm on our journey, and laid up about sixteen hours at Springfield, Mass. It was such a storm as was never known by the oldest inhabitants. The railroad employees made us as comfortable as they could under the circumstances, and we took our difficulties, sang hymns, and held praise service, and murmured not.

The General Conference was a good one. The good Spirit of God was present in a marked manner from the first. As delegates from all parts of the world reported the progress of the great threefold warning message, our hearts were stirred within us. It was a time of heart searching and refreshing coming down from the Father above, and we returned home with renewed zeal to publish the glad tidings of the soon-coming King, in all the earth.