, 1870-12-14

besu,, sisd 10 thave baptized them into Il.
And AZ this did 1t my own expense. had II
not betn for this would not b telling these
things IN Decatur County, Jail tonight, e1-
pecting to stazt for tho esste Prison in The
morning..
: While In Connecticut I was rather relue-
t1nt]y drawn into preaching again. to the e1-
clusion Of evtEy other business. After preaoh-
ug IN d,deieEt p1aces Was invited BY the
Mtthoaists Of Mlddlefield, Connecticut, 10 be-
cone their pa.tor: did 80 b The adsica Of
other minister's; and with the approyal of
Rev. z E. Gfiswold. Presiding Elder of the
New Haven District. 1aised = great deal Of
money and t3ntahed beautiful church for
them, having it entirely free from debt 'hs-
fcre dedicatlcn.
While preaching for that church the p1rson-
age, in which lived. burned to The ground.
Tue Trustees Of the property got the insur-
aree n the building, hut had no insurance
Oh anything, and lost, excepting mers tritls,
all bad. 1t Was linted By some thu. mu4t
have had hand in burning it; but why I
such thing, I never learned. The Hussasa
we're indignant At the suggestion Since I
hive been in Jail IN GtaeoaburB hare seen it
etsted that l had been aHeated for arson;
but there II NOT word Of Truth in it, That
Has three ears ago last June. then came
to Chicago, where reeumtd uT own name.
Frtm Chicago ] went to Shannon, Carroll
County. III. There connected myself with
the Baptiats, and vas ordained by council
called for that purpose 1preached for the
church in that town fer eeFerAl months, but |
got broken up there By the revelations Of 4
years ago, tut which had kept secret He |
srst offered II would give him hush money ]
he would e2y nothing, but I had no money,
nor could get it, and 50 he exposed me-. |
then cameto Elkhart, in the State OF Indiana,
where I preached fva months. Here mr |
wi fall rr1H H+1A zr,t -,
him $50 to keep him quiet. At the end |
Of the dve months accepted call to the pas |
tofate Of the Baptist church there. h4i NOT |
been there long before the spirit Of the evil /
one prompted me to the utserauce Of false |
owned By wife In Baltimore. AitsFS.rd II I
statsd that "a bad sold II, and at stated tines
we're 10 receive nuns amounting in the aggre-
gate to 80. 600. assert it, te1ore God This
hour, that had no object whatever that can
conceive Of ior making theee statements. I |
had no end to gain by so doing, and to this
hour it is rs grca, = mystery to me A. it is to
many others shy vas left To fall into this
terrible temptation. Sometimes think get
slmpse Of Gods providence in it, and then |
again all i dark as midnight. But fall did |
most fea!ful'y. After time contracted for
sold to me On the faith Of those ktate1nsnts.
That property have since reronveved TO ita |
riehtful owner. then negotiated four bills
OF e1thAhge- amounting In all to 81 800, tue
ttgness AID endoFseta lenaing me their names
on the faith OF my Misrepresentation. part
Of the money Tas spent in improvements on |
the property, and $50 Of it in hush raoaey to
my re1entless re: secutor. thought could
improve the property and make It 20 desira-
BILE IS to Fealize i handsome advance on
Its sale. But IN this waa mistaken, vent
to Baltimore and tried to rAi.e money there to
meet the bills AZ they became due. II thi.
failed. retuEued to Or eensburg. and tried
ty other means, which We1e also falte, to nro-
vide the money to meet them, but without
wall. I tten became alarmed and fed. /
vent first to Boston, and obtained employ
1ent there fot short time; thence to Conuec-
leut, in Tie sama neighborbood where had |
ived before, and got good situation, Out
u the proceeds Of my salary 4tare I could |
save In tTs years nearly, il, not altogether. !
}ald up my debts ia Greensbufg, and wonl6 /
,ase dote 1t, but I Was arrested before had
Eo:ked month, brought back to Gfeeusburg.
md. having pleaded guilty. to 4 charge of
obtaining Egpatures to bill Of exchange by
aIee pietenee, Vas sentenced to two Years
q the Stxta Prison. have einnea-a,nued
ga1net great light and mow1edge-and I am
" doing.r c
Toward the close Of his narrative Nr, Green 6
'xs much moved. and u the reco1lectiops Of | :
''ler and happier days clustered thick and / 8
resh before him, his voice faltered and a. t I
lost broke down. We could not resist 4 ia i
Is OF ply for this man, Hhoso intellect might :
$40 plzced him high in the sociL scale, but I
bose pathway seemed eTet pointed ont bT =
10 dark finger OF fate.