I rounded up all of our banks in the city, and made a second journey to get the money, and kept going until I secured the necessary amount.

With this I was off on the three-o'clock train, and closed the transaction.

In these early days I was a good deal of a traveller, visiting our plants, making new connections, seeing people, arranging plans to extend our business--and it often called for very rapid work.
RAISING CHURCH FUNDS When I was but seventeen or eighteen I was elected as a trustee in the church.

It was a mission branch, and occasionally I had to hear members who belonged to the main body speak of the mission as though it were not quite so good as the big mother church.

This strengthened our resolve to show them that we could paddle our own canoe.
Our first church was not a very grand affair, and there was a mortgage of $2,000 on it which had been a dispiriting influence for years.
The holder of the mortgage had long demanded that he should be paid, but somehow even the interest was barely kept up, and the creditor finally threatened to sell us out.