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FORTY YEARS AGO (1833) BY REV. ELIJAH H. PILCHER
He then took a text and preached to us, and dealt very plainly with us, and yet we could not get mad at him, for he was so kind toward us. " Thus spake Mr. Martin, whom I had not seen since that time. This camp-meeting was in August, 1831. By this device the young men were prevented from disturbing the meeting during the night, as they had intended to do; and several of them professed religion during the meeting.
AN ADVENTURE.
At the close of this ecclesiastical year—that is, in August, 1831—Rev. Henry Colclazer, Rev. Wm. Sprague, and myself started from the above camp-meeting to attend the session of the conference, which was to be held in Ohio. We were well dressed and well mounted on fine horses, with well filled saddlebags, and might have been mistaken for drovers returning from Michigan after having disposed of their cattle, with pockets well filled with cash, which with us was far from the truth. On our way we took tea at a hotel in Monroe one evening, and determined to ride on two miles further and stop for the night with a wealthy farmer, a Methodist brother, with whom we had all dined a year before on our way into the country. It was now growing dark. Just as we reached the outskirts of the city, two men on one horse rode rapidly by us, as we apprehended, to waylay us in a piece of woods, which we remembered we had to pass. We supposed they took us for returning drovers
and to be laden with money. The piece of woods we had to pass was about one mile in length, and very lonesome. We were unarmed—had no weapons of defense, except one had a heavy riding whip and another had an umbrella. The third had nothing.
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