CHAPTER XI.

LABORS IN NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA.

My new district included eleven counties, and extended from the Platte River on the south, to the northern boundary of the State. I found noble, self-sacrificing, faithful brethren and sisters, who were willing to help on the good work of the gospel of the kingdom to the extent of their ability. I spent the winter of 1900-1901 in visiting my churches. While traveling, I was exposed to inclement weather, and my old enemy, the quinsy, came upon me again, and for eleven days and nights I suffered severely; but I recovered, although it left me quite weak, and I was troubled with neuralgia in the chest more or less during the remainder of the winter.

One night, while sleeping with Brother Anderson, at Harrington, I awoke with a terrible pain in my chest. It was bitter cold, and I thought that if possible I would not trouble any one; but the misery was so great that I woke Brother Anderson and told him to get a lot of boiling hot water as quickly as possible, and heat the flat irons as hot as he could make them. While the water was heating, I got up, and walked around the room. It seemed as if I could hold out but little longer. My head began to get dizzy, and fearing I would soon be unconscious, I said to Brother Anderson, "If I should not get over this, please tell my loved ones that I fell with my face toward the kingdom of God."

He took the bottom out of a chair, placed a pail of boiling hot water under it, placed a thin blanket over the chairs, and I sat down in it, with my feet in a dish of hot water. Then he wrapped me in a quilt from the neck to the feet, put a compress of cold water on my head, put a hot iron in the pail of hot water, and the hot steam soon had the perspiration running down my body in streams. The pain vanished in short order, and I have not had trouble with neuralgia since.

Dear reader, if you wish to relieve pain, water, intelligently applied, is a mighty agent in doing it.

At Harrington we had more excellent meetings. The Spirit of the Lord came into our midst to reprove and comfort, and the dear brethren and sisters were greatly encouraged in the Lord.