Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-06-13
AN EVENTFUL NIGHT.

BY REV. @. w. FARMER. ...
| A very few years In the travelin,
connection will suffice to stock th
mind with large, if not carefully Sc
lected: assortment Of memories
These are rich experiences, blesset
associations and MISUNDERSTANDING
spiritual strugglings, mental wrest
linss, and bodily achings; storms il
the weather, teapot-tempests in re
lion, and wars of ecclesiastical roses
The most vivid recollections are no
always the most pleasant, or if the,
are, the pleasure grows out of th'
fact that they are recollections ant
nothing more. Here follows a re.
nininiscence to point the above obsel
vations. f "" s.H.,F s..' -.3..
1t was July, and in the West. Fol
further particulars apply with STAMP
to the writer. For several months he
had been importuned to ''go home
with" brother who lived about three
miles from the place Of preaching
but had declined, on various pretexts
because after preaching three times
in a day, and riding sixteen miles
between the breaches, the exhausted
body was drawn by special attraction
to the nearest house that had a soft
bed. Even Il prolific brain will,
however, at last run out of excuses
and this one having limited resources
in that line, was early reduced TO the
alternative of fat refusal or the
three-mile ride with its then unknown
consequences. The ride was taken
and the consequences were reveal
ed.
1 wish to repeat that it was July,
and to add that it was q July of a
very emphatic character. All through
the day the sun had kept the air at
the boiling point; and when it went
down the temperature was SO thor
oughly equalized that not zephyr
could be distinguished even by the
most lively Imagination. On such a
night my refuge of plausible excuses
failed me, and L YEARLY followed the
brother to his home, consoling myself
with the thought that what he could
endure during his natural life should
bear with cheerfulness for night.
That thought has huge fallacy in it
somewhere, though L have never been
able to detect it. But it no longer
consoles me. have found it vain,
empty, delusive. We reached the
house at ten O'Clock in the evening.
The preacher Was hungry from ten
hour fast, and not dyspeptic. Sup
per was cooked in our sight after our
arrival. At eleven we drew our
chairs arouad the board. Black cof-
fee, very black fiat biscuits, yer fat;
and dish of hot lard, very hot, in
the midst OF which six eggs were
hove to, waiting for a breeze--such
was the fare. The breeze did not
come. The air was hot without; the
stove was hotter within, and the VIC
tuals sizzled and smoked on the
table. Don't forget thasit was Jaly.
After seeing and feeling the process
Of getting supper, and summing up
the results in q sweeping glance, the
preacher was not AS hungry as he had
been. His appetite was gone, and he
began TO wish ithad taken lin with
it. But one was taken and the other
left. Most of the ielaborately prepar-
ed. supper shared the '1other's'' fate.
Prayers followed--it wasa very pious
family. L am afraid the preachers
heart was not id his aadlble petitions
that night. There was an aundercur-
rent, though, Of confession, that peni-
tenee and very ardent desire, that
rendered the services singularly
solemn Resolutions were formed
that night that have grown stronger
with the years, resolutions havi ig
special reference to time--night time,
and only touching obliqneiy On cter-
nifty. II 2ss'' ~ Dol 3gs.a e Hano
Supper over and dev otions render
ed, preparations were begun for re-
tiring.i The house was square,
twenty feet each way. II was divid-
ed like the tabernacle, into two apart
meets, whose area was In the ratio ol
one or two. In the larger one we
had just finished eating and praying.
Into the smaller one you ARE now in.
vitsd. 1t is twenty feet long and
one-third Of that distance wide. "A,
the east Is . bed, separated from the
cook.stoye BY three feet Of space and
. thin partition---with cracks. Th.
western extremity is.yentilafed by /
window, whose isingie sash once held
four panes OF Txe glass. Through
that apertnrn i,ad cir. y,s.-t - .,..t - !