Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-03-04
Our Kansas Letter.

Leavenworth, Feb. 10. 1886
EDITOR EXPOSITOR:
am taking liberty this bright morn
ing to write short letter to your valu-
able paper brought to Leavenworth
safely every Monday morning by the
never firing steam messenger from the
North East. We have just passed
through the severest winter that the
people of Kansas ever witnessed, and
farther southwest the winter was still
more severe. Cattle perished by the
hundreds in the southwestern part of
the state. Times are hard here. People
say much harder than during the grass
hopper year. Wheat was a failure We
had very little fruit of any kind. The
corn crop was light. People were left
to depend altogether on the sale of
stock and prices were low. Yet the
Kansas people are not discouraged
They have the vim for to endure almost
anything. In great many respects
the people of this state are in adj
vance of the Michigan people. The
schools are good: a great many of the
teachers are graduates of colleges. One
teacher. graduate of Lawrence, whose
school visited, told me that ten of his
girls could obtain second and third
grade certificates any time they chose
to apply. Any of those girls can play
OH the organ nicely in church. When
called upon to assist in a meeting by
the reading of the Scriptures, they will
walk in very lady-like manner to the
front and do SO. At home they can do
their work neatly and when it is done
get horse up, saddle him and ride to
the village for mail. Now | must say
something about the young men. Four
years ago Sanford Hart lost everything
he had and was left with heavy debt
on his shoulders that would have dis
couraged almost any young man; but
for four years he has done nothing but
battle alone with that debt and now
has paid the last dollar with interest.
Kansas people are active. There is no
middle ground with them. This can
be seen by the answer of a young lady
that | baptised about two months ago
when asked to go to dance. She said,
"When | danced it was with all my
might and when quit it was with all
my might | have good hope that ten
years out in the west will cure my
slOwness. Leavenworth has lost $780,
600 by fire since last September, yet it
is being built up rapidly. | purpose
visiting the Fort soon, also the Peniten-
tiary. There are $50 persons confined
at each place. Will try and write again
soon reporting my visit to those places.
/ am getting along nicely with my work.
Am just closing my first years labors
here. / am glad to say that all are
satisfied and are anxious to have me re-
nam with them the coming year BY
hard work. my life as minister of the
gospel will be success, for God is with
all those who try to do right.
Wishing success to the kind editor of
the Brockway Centre paper and lleav-
ems blessing on its readers and all the
friends i'm Brockway. l am Yours.
ELDER II. B. Brown.
The following item taken from the
Standard, Leavenworth, Kansas, will be
read with pleasure by all who are ac-
quainted with Mr. Brown:
Fairmount, Feb. l5.--There is at
present wave of religious good feeling
overfowing our section. It is led by
the Rev. Robt. Brown, who has caused
us all to see each other in an entirely
different light, and we find by the glim-
mer of that light that we are not so bad
as we used to think we were. Anyhow
eleven of us had faith enough to be i'm.
mersed in the water where the ice had
to be cut, being two feet thick and the
mercury at six degrees below zero
Bro. Brown is doing an immense
amount of good. and, although we don,
agree on all points. we find him a fine
young fellow and hard worker I'm thu
! interest of Christianity.