Still, the people of the South were their brethren, and they gave to them their profoundest sympathy during that bloody struggle that was to decide whether the South should be an independent nation.

Let us admit that this did put these gentlemen in a strait betwixt two, like Paul, the Apostle, but they never swerved to the right hand nor to the left.
We have, with some particularity, drawn out the history of the two most distinguished of the Southern leaders, because that, with slight change, it would be the biography of a great number of citizens of Kansas that came from the South.

Now, who does not see that here is the basis of hearty co-operation, whether in the church or in the world, of men from the South or from the North?
provided always we can take into our hearts the law of love: "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets." In further illustration of this remark we will relate an incident concerning a Disciple, who will come prominently before us in the formation of our first missionary society.

Spartan Rhea was from Missouri, and belonged to a family intensely Southern in their convictions.

He was commissioned a justice of the peace by the Territorial authorities.