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Show -; - the pleasure of seeing Elder Thos. Smith baptized three men, Joseph .estwood, a baptist preacher, a man named Collins and the Methodist Preacher, James Will, who had so determinedly opposed me before0 I was ordained an Elder on the 13th of January 1843, by WcKee. I labored in the place where I resided for six months after which I was called on a travelling mission and I started on the 4th of March, 1843, without purse or script, having broken up my home and place my wife in the care of friends. Arrived athe first night at Straton Aven, then went to Seamington and from there to Hungry Harbor$ At this place I attended a meeting that was being held and was invited to speak wi which I did. I taught the Gospel as I believed it and broke up the meeting in confusion~ I asked the preachers if I had sd anythi ng contrary to the scriptures. One man replied, "but the scriptures did not mean what they said. On returning to the place where I had first called I was informed that a gentleman living in jhe same place had called and !shed to see me. As I had no place to stop. I started for the place and on appr aching the house overheard an altercation and a woman's voice saying, "He shan't stay here he shant's stay here!" I entered and we conversed until very late upon religion. When the family showed signs of wanting to retire. I told them that it was very late. I had no place to go and asked if I might not stay? but the answer was an irrevocable no and I went out, walked about two miles found some straw, wrapped myself in my cloak and waited until day break when I trudged~ck several miles to seamington and found friends there. I labored in Seamington and raised quite a branch there and that was my principal place or headquarters while I labored in the surrounding places, including stratford on Avon and all the surrounding villages, preaching princpally out-doors. I converted quite a number of people and in time a conference was organizede When I first came to Seamington a Jew named Ballin rent |
