TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
IN THE
WEST.
BY ERASMUS MANFORD
CHICAGO:
E. MANFORD, PUBLISHER.
1867.
TO
MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS
IN THE WEST,
WITH WHOM I HAVE LIVED
AND LABORED MANY YEARS,
THIS VOLUME
IS DEDICATED
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Parentage and Childhood; “Lord” Timothy Dexter; At School; InHaverhill; Shoemaking; Early Aspirations; Converted; Must bea Minister; On a Plank; Attend School; A Long Walk; Studieswith J. C. Waldo and Dr. Cobb; First Preaching; With W. S.Balch; First Tour; First Debate; Came out Second Best; Talkwith an Englishman about American Coarseness; Conversation onSlavery; In Maryland; Talk with an Episcopal Clergyman concerningEndless Woe not being Taught in the Old Testament;Traveling and Preaching on the Eastern Shore; Return to Baltimore;A Storm; Where Truth Flourishes and Where it Does Not;Another Location; Self and Faith Abused; Preach in Harper’sFerry, Charleston, Winchester, Va.; A Hard Battle; Cross theAlleghany Mountains.
CHAPTER II.
In Pittsburg; S. A. Davis, Wife and Daughter; The West; Preachin Pennsylvania and Ohio; Western Reserve; Talk with a Bigot;Conversation on a Steamboat; Forbidden to Preach; Grave Creek;A Mound; My Study; What is Salvation? Proceedings in Bainbridge;Mud; In Cincinnati; General Harrison; In Rising Sun;Patriot; Preach in Louisville, Ky.; E. M. Pingree; On the MississippiRiver; Preach in a Steamboat; In New Orleans; BattleGround.
CHAPTER III.
A Sea Voyage; A Meeting at Sea; Tornado; Strange Vessel; InTexas; Travel to Houston; Hard Fare; The Country; Sleepingon the Ground; Very Thirsty; Must have Water; Colorado River;Sound Asleep on its Banks; Cross the River on Logs; Corn Cake;A Surprise; In Houston; General Houston; The Attorney-Generalof Texas; San Jacinto Battle Ground; A Pandemonium; BuckWheat Cakes; Embark for New Orleans; A Condemned Vessel;On Allowance; In New Orleans; A Contrast; Ague and Fever;Up the Mississippi.
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