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FORTY YEARS AGO (1833) BY REV. ELIJAH H. PILCHER
We had established a school at the Indian reservation. These were a fragment of the Wyandottes. Wm. H. Brockway, now of the Michigan Conference, was employed to teach the school. It seemed to be my duty to visit' the school, and give some attention to the Indian flock. To do this it became necessary to sleep one night in the school-house on a bench. The next day we made pastoral visits till some time after noon, when we stopped at an Indian hut and asked for dinner. They gave us some hominy out of a kettle over the fire, in one dish with two spoons, and some sugar of their own make. We did not stop to think how clean it might be. This was one of the sweetest meals I ever ate, making good the German proverb, that "hunger is the best sauce. "
MONROE.
The Methodist society in the city of Monroe was very feeble at this time. Although there had been Methodist preaching and a church organized as early as 1811, which was scattered by the war; and although as the country became quiet after the war, the Methodist itinerants had been here, the society had not acquired much strength. They had been weakened in various ways. In 1825, Rev. John A. Baughman had captured and carried off, by her own consent, Sarah A. Baker, a widowed sister of Capt. Luther Harvey, one of the most talented and active young ladies of the church, in return for whom he did not furnish any other.
In 1827 the society was very much encouraged by the coming of a Dr. Adams, who was a member of the church, and expressed an earnest desire to have a minister devote his entire time and labor to the city, and gave very large promise of support, if the minister, then on the circuit, would return.
MICHIGAN
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