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DAVID.

Ere his family had crossed the river. friends
had t4lq htm that would not BE- sa,e Tor SONS
afterward a member of his Institute in Illinois.
s1mS psp ~ anI pencil ana will write
This sentie@an. HlSert !. Field, with some
shinsie and fragment Of fns' pencil, an" "'c Con.
veyed them to him secretly. He began the
shade of the oak trees in his home near
9RRn word. Of TRf bis HMM oG H e nay
night from his retreat IN the wilis Of the river
After reaching Illinois DR.. Nelson did not
lnd bssiul peaG,e There were matterings in
citizens whom she found unworthy, some
threatening demonstrations We're made. The
Doctors friends thought 1t prudent for time
near the door viii 10 he WAS preaching. Quieter
days were dawning when word reached the
college in Marion county. Missouri. was SO dam
geronSiy III Win tyPhns foyer that Ms NE was
Marion, and we're Thankful to lind tho lad still
alive. After some time y. spent II the bedside OF
OF her husband. On stepping into the yard
whether, Or. Nelson was, there. saying that
out Of tho State. under penalty, of death II
caught within its borders after the expiration
turned upon the party and in indignant tones
shs Saasd to their
man. and told them that they KEEP,
ons Of fhl em ret % hs
ence to- her sex which marks the gentleman.
we're man repsa to
NssH IN wSe to SS9 tne
Of Chesterfleld himself. The other angriiy said:
We will be down upon you. madam, in tho
course OF rev hours well armed. ana u hou-
Come on, she replied. we are all ready
actual number OF each which the college boys
IN SsS he 81 ana
s M"s Kept al hight The signal danger Te Mas
r. ns sdnT ns nH
The morning brought a new delegation with u
Sickness Of the child. II as dangerous as rep,
resented permission would be granted to Dr.
Nelson to remain short time longer without
ii In 1886 Dr. Nelson's youngest daughter. UNI
tenching in the family OF Mr.. j. L. NJ. OF Jeffer-
son City. Mo. Mr.. NJ. was then owner of a hun,
dred slaves w; man DEVOTED tied
lovely daughters, He was scholar and gen,
spW Your fath her and
family were assembled around his hosritable
board. i was practising law in PALMYRA at
t' OF the delegation which they sent to the
lower College to warn your father out OF the
Y out father aR R
only part q what your mother said. l could
not stand that fire long. Only few OF US did
sight under a BIZ Unison weed, We had .
that We had come to drive Dr.. Nelson away. but
his, wife had been little too much for US.
lab s before
The child recovered. He Is gray haired
father now residing near the SPOT where, his
isiI through shortly alter its moving spirit was
thus driven away. and the neighborhoOd never
az hat heg drove
midst one q chrsts little ones because ne be-
Thsy eans ts ,hsy
years after. in tho midst OF all the horrors Of
civil war. many Of the leaders and participants
and banishment. Both, armies by turns held
grudges found means to iniict much unjust
lmprls onment incendiarism. loss Of far more
81 lis mem wso In ADVANCE
to Kin him was siterward killed BY an, IKE il
whip while overseer ON a Southern plantation.
The other persisted in a similar manner ,
tender ove For Fstrn wi I'd him
his heart to call each and ALL no matter how
ignorant, degraded. or wicked. my brother.
the abolition party In its turn began to re-
criminate and substitute their feeble human una
proval. DR.. Nelson. disgusted with their manner
Of reform, said: will walk no more with
them" This was after he had been threatened
driven from his home for his opinions His
greatest grief in his last days seemed to be that
| he could no longer preach to lost souls. The
pretty marble shaft which points heavenward
oyer his grave In Woodland Cemetery. Quincy.
OF his church in Kentucky. erected by friende
In New York" He left at his death family OF
eleven children, the eldest hardly grown. to-