My time was divided between working on my claim on Stranger Creek, preaching for the churches that had been organized, and making the acquaintance of brethren wherever I was able to find them.
And now the year 1858 was upon us, predestinated to bring with it consequences far-reaching, as touching the future of Kansas.

In this year should be settled the question that had filled the Territory with agitation, tumult, and war for four years; and it was in this year that our Kansas missionary work was begun, and in which was organized the first missionary society.

The time was the early spring of 1858.
The place was "Old Union," a little, log school-house situated in a ravine opening into Stranger Creek bottoms.

The _personnel_ were, first, Numeris Humber, with his tender heart and quenchless love for missionary work.

Then there was his sister wife, that with saintly presence and sacred song made us feel that this was the very house of God and gate of heaven.