Moreover, a valuable farm that Dr.Moore had sold at Camp Point fell back into his hands, and he felt constrained to return to Illinois in 1861.

With such elements of power the reader will not think it strange that we should go to work with a will to recover the ground we had lost in this social and political turmoil and religious inaction.
The writer did not travel much abroad this summer; he found too much to do at home.

We had meetings every Lord's day, and had frequent additions by letter and by baptism.

One day, as my manner was, I gave an invitation to sinners to obey the gospel.

There had been no indication, however remote, that any would desire baptism; but my daughter, Rosetta, now thirteen years of age, came forward and demanded to be baptized.