my plans in the past. I look back over that period, I see a mere boy pano-plied with the armour of heaven, standing against the Midianites and the Philistian hosts combined, and with the sword of the Spirit putting these allied powers to flight. I asked no quarters, I gave none.
By the close of 1870 we had traveled over Carroll and Boone Counties. A little congregation had been planted in Berryville. The sects had united their efforts to prevent this. Dr. Ellis, dear man, had proposed that he could stop it, that if they would furnish him two or three men that would stand by him he would put a stop to my work there. When, however, it came to the test they concluded that the reckoning before the civil courts might be more than they cared about having on hand. So, you see, the civil law kept me from bearing in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus, and, perhaps, from being numbered with the martyrs of Jesus. I kept near the Savior, and his guardian care was with me. (My young brother, be true to God's eternal truth, and he will never leave you nor forsake you. It has been my rule, from the first to the present, never to enter the pulpit without, before doing so, seeking some secreted spot, and there pour out my soul in earnest prayer to God. I have never, as I have seen some do, on entering the pulpit, bowed in silent prayer. Such always seemed to me too much like the ancient custom of praying at the corners of the streets, to be seen of men. I never offer a secret prayer in a public place, nor a public prayer in a secret place.) Dr. Ellis was born of Methodist parents, christened in his infancy and had been educated for the ministry.
Up to that time he had, as memory now serves us, received by way of remuneration, one side of bacon, two bushels of wheat, one pig, one colony of bees, and one dollar in money. I could give no thought to dealing in stock, the work demanded it and called for all our thought. It did not take a prophet to see the inevitable. Mrs. H. and I consulted carefully, and talked of the propriety of moving to more favored regions. That, however, under existing circumstances, would seem like beating a cowardly retreat, and our sin in doing so would be more heinous than that of Jonah. Wife told me to get her an outfit for making cloth and she would furnish wearing apparel for the family, and we could raise some grain and hogs and we could live as those among whom we lived. We wrote a letter to the A. C. Review, and gave the condition of affairs in that country. Some wrote to us and sent words of condolence, expressions of sympathy, and told us how thankful they were that the good work was going on; but not one, so far as we ever learned, were thankful for the opportunity of having fellowship in an apostolic mission. Bro. J. W. McGarvey did send us the Apostolic Times, which was then being edited by himself, Lard, Hopson and Graham, gratuitous for one year.
The sects at Berryville, having failed to check our work there on the Dr. Ellis plan, held a counsel of war. The decision was to get Uncle Ike to deal a death blow to heresy there. It was announced that Isaac Standlee would expose Campbellism in the town of Berryville upon a certain fifth Lord's day. We had an appointment in a different part for that day, but we decided to hear Uncle Ike. We entered the hall just as the speaker was ready to commence. Preachers and people were present, and evidently ready
