The sun rose bright in my sky that day; but before the year was out, my prospects were again in darkness.
Now I had two great burdens upon my mind: one to attend properly to my missionary duty, the other to raise eight hundred dollars.

During this time we succeeded in getting a better place for the Sabbath school, and there was a larger attendance upon my preaching, which demanded reading and study, and also visiting, and increased my daily labors.

On the other hand, the year was running away, in which I had to raise eight hundred dollars.

So that I found myself at times in a great strait.
My plan to raise the money was, to secure the amount, first, by pledges, before I collected any....

Finally, the year was more than passed away, and I had upon my subscription list about one half of the money needed.