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Show LOYALTY. 65 The minister gave a kind and loving lecture, presenting Christ as the cup and the loaf to refresh the christian soldier and guide him to the new Jerusalem. Even those who were inclined to laugh at the incongruity of the scene, bowed in holy reverence to receive the benediction. Rev. J. H. Kehler arrived in Denver from Virginia on the 17th of January, 1860, and established St. John's Church in the wilderness. One gloomy, stormy Sunday morning there were only two persons in the church, Mr. Amos Steck and Col. J. H. Dudley. They thought of course they would be dismissed without a sermon, but Father Kehler, equal to the situation, selected the text, "Where two Or three are gathered together in my name, there will I be, in the midst of them," and thereupon preached an excellent sermon. CHAPTER XV LOYAL TO THE GOVERNMENT. In the spring of 1861 the Territory of Colorado was organized. President Lincoln immediately appointed William Gilpin its first Governor, in recognition of his services as an explorer of the "great West." The people of Denver set about to receive their distinguished executive with every manifestation of pleasure and respect in their power. To Judge H. P. Bennett was assigried the honor of making the reception speech. To give greater tone to the affair a platform was erected in front of the Tremont house, West Denver, where the reception was to be held, 5 |