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 her to bring the children up for heaven; but to let him alone, as there was no hope for him.

He promised me he would go hame and pray. He said he had never tried to pray in his life, but he would try. He kept his word. He began to pray and God helped him. God turned the light in and he saw what a sinner he was. He prayed all the next day in the cornfield. That night I went to him and took his hand. He could not speak. He broke down and wept. I told him to come to the altar. He started, but would have fallen if some one had not caught him. He was soon converted, and got up and told his experience. He said he had not wept since he was a boy, and he was now forty years old. He had stood by his mother's grave and the graves of his children and never shed a tear. He said it was his last chance. He would have been forever lost if he had refused.

Next I went to Buzzard's school-house, near Huntington, Indiana, to hold a revival meeting. I had heard of this place as being very hard, and almost forsaken of God. A number of ministers had labored hard in trying to build up a church, but had failed. I felt a desire to go, for I believed many souls would be saved.

Seekers continued to come to the altar by scores, until about one hundred and forty were converted, and were very bright, going right to work. Several Dunkards came out, and several church members were converted. Among the converts we counted thirty who were from the ages of fifty to seventy.

I organized a Church of God and from the results of this meeting the Methodists put up two church houses. There were forty-nine baptized in the river by immersion. They looked like angels, and with many others came out shouting. This scene was witnessed by hundreds of people on the banks of the river. They seemed to feel that God was there.

On Sabbath morning at nine o'clock the people were coming from all directions to the meeting, and assembling in the leafy temple to be present at the closing service of this most wonderful revival.

We spent some time in singing, after which we had a glorious praise-meeting. Over one hundred of those who had been converted arose, one after another, telling of Jesus' power on earth to forgive sins, and to give them the witness of the Spirit.