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                       CONTENTS.


                              CHAPTER I.                          PAGE
Birth In Virginia.- Emigration to Kentucky.- Settlement near Danville in the
   year 1793.- Removal to Clark county.- Manners and customs of those times. I

                             CHAPTER II.
His father makes a prospecting tour westward.- Passes O'Post, now Vincennes.
   -Crosses the Mississippi at Paincourt, now St. Louis.- Purchases land on
   the Missouri, twenty miles above St. Louis.- Removes with his family to his
   new home, in 1801.- He is pleased with his new home.- Fertile lands.- Wild
   game and fruits.- The first water-mill.-Night overtakes him in the forest.
   -He is pursued by wolves.-Makes a narrow escape.- Fishing and swim-
   ming his delight.                                                 7

                            CHAPTER III.
The cession of the territory to the United States in 1803.-Lewis and Clark.-
  They winter in the vicinity.- Emigration is stimulated.- The dawn of civil-
  ization.- The first preachers.- His father sells out and returns to Kentucky.
  -He settles  Bourbon, now Nicholas county.-Marriage.-A grateful trib-
  ute to his wife and mother-in-law.- Conversion under the preaching of Stone
  and Dooley.                                                       13

                             CHAPTER IV.
Declaration of war.- He enlists under Metcalf.- St. Mary's.- Fort Defiance.-
  3leigs. - Dudley's defeat. - Sickness. - Left to die in a blockhouse. - His
  friends save him.- His arrival at home.- Recruiting service.- End of the
  war.- Demoralization.- Fortunate appearing of Reuben Dooley. - Revival
  at Old Concord.- Habits of the young converts.- All pray.- Most of them
  exhort. -Viewvs in regard to conversion, and the call to the ministry.-
  Strange notions concerning Providence.                            17

                             CHAPTER V.
Trial by the Shakers.-Preaching in Lewis county.-Disgraceful scene.- His
  opinion of those who misbehave on occasions of baptism.-A tour.-The
  preacher and the horse cared for.- The King's Bounty, a cut nine-pence.-
  The wife's parting words. - At Falmouth. - Shaking hands. - In Preble
  county, Ohio.- The Dooleys and others.- Meeting in the woods.- Scores of
  mourners.- Mourners' benches abolished.                           25

                            CHAPTER VI.
Going to William M. Irvin's. - Misdirection. - A strange Providence.- Robert
  Long.- Development of God's purpose.-A great meeting in the woods.- He
  sees the hand of God, and determines to remove with his family.  .  . 31
                                  V.


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