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,illustration3 ,,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4 ,,carr    
,,the ,,story ,,of ,a ,,life    ,,by    
,j4 ,,breckenridge ,,ellis    ,,author  
,,of    ,,the ,,soul ,,of ,a ,,serf1    
,,the ,,dread ,,and ,,fear ,,of ,,kings1
 ,,holland   ,,wolves1 ,,shem1 ,,adnah1 
,,arkinsaw ,,cousins1 ,,twin ,,starrs1  
,,garcilaso1 ,,in ,,the ,,days ,,of     
,,jehu1 ,,king ,,saul1 ,,stork',s       
,,nest1 ,,the ,,red ,,box ,,clew1 ,,etc4
       ,,press ,,of                     
,,reynolds-,,parker ,,co4    ,,sherman1 
,,texas    #aiaj       ,,to ,,her       
,,girls    and to the    ,,memory ,,and 
,,perpetuation    ,,of                  
,,carr-,,burdette ,,college    ,,mrs4   
,,carr',s ,,pet--,,the ,,child ,,of     
,,her    ,,brain ,,and ,,heart    ,,this
 ,,volume ,,is ,,dedicated              
,,contents4            ,,introduction4  
,i4 ,a ,,kentucky ,,girl4       ,,ii4   
,,ideals4      ,,iii4 ,a ,,kentucky     
,,boy4       ,,iv4 ,a ,,school-,,girl',s
 ,,note ,,book4        ,v4 ,a           

,,university ,,student4       ,,vi4     
,,love ,,and ,,sacrifice4      ,,vii4 ,i
 ,,will ,,go4     ,,viii4 ,,an ,,english
 ,,primrose4       ,,ix4 ,,the ,,long   
,,voyage4        ,x4 ,,life ,,in        
,,melbourne4       ,,xi4 ,,busy ,,years 
,,in ,,australia4      ,,xii4           
,,experiences ,,in ,,tasmania4          
,,xiii4 ,,travels ,,in ,,the ,,orient4  
,,xiv4 ,,work ,,in ,,kentucky ,,and     
,,missouri4       ,,xv4 ,,lady          
,,principal ,,of ,,the ,,university ,,of
 ,,missouri4      ,,xvi4 ,,in ,,pursuit 
,,of ,,one',s ,,ideal4     ,,xvii4      
,,achieving ,,one',s ,,ideal4           
,,xviii4 ,,crowning ,,monument ,,of ,a  
,,life4     ,,introduction4   ,the story
 of any life1 if fully portrayed1 should
 be more interesting than the story of a
 dream-phantom of fiction4 ,in hearing  
of one who really lived1 there is with  
us the feeling that the sunshine which  
greets our eyes1 the rain which dashes  
against our window1 in brief1 the joys  
and sorrows which like flowers and      

thistles grow everywhere1 were all known
 to that real character in the world's  
drama4 ,therefore1 since1 in a measure1 
our experience and his are in common1   
his life1 inasmuch as it touches us at  
so many points1 should lead us into new 
fields of interest and instruction1 as  
it goes on its way alone4  ,this is true
 of any life1 if we could know it in its
 entirety4 ,but how much more strikingly
 true it is found1 when the life        
selected is one that leads from the     
twilight dawn of infancy to the twilight
 close of life1 in one straight line of 
definite desire and inspiring           
achievement4 ,it is the purpose of this 
book to trace such a life1 from the     
little bed in the nursery1 a bed of     
weakness and tears1 to the huge pile of 
brick and stone which stands as a       
monument to that life as if to show what
 may be accomplished in spite of tears  
and weakness4  ,in the story of this    
life will be found stirring scenes and  
distant travels2 romance will not be    

lacking2 here and there the faces of    
famous men and women will1 for a moment1
 appear2 across the bloom of youth and  
hope will fall the shadows of war4 ,all 
these realities will be presented in the
 colors of truth4 ,but something deeper 
than an interest in connected links of a
 story is here to be found2 it shall be 
our endeavor to discover the causes that
 lead to wider activities4  ,in         
endeavoring to divine1 and clearly      
reveal1 the motives that prompt action1 
we shall try to hold ourselves detached 
from the subject1 finding no fault1 and 
indulging in no encomium1 defining      
beliefs and ambitions1 not because they 
are ours1 but because they were those of
 ,mattie ,myers1 and1 to understand her1
 one must understand them4  ,it will not
 be sufficient to consider her work1 and
 the opinions of those who knew her1 in 
order to reach the desired result4 ,as  
far as possible1 she shall speak out    
herself1 out of her old diaries and the 
abundance of her letters4 ,as her       

biographer1 ,i would be but the setting 
to uphold the gem1 that it may shine by 
its own light4 ,and yet1 there is no    
life whose story may be fully           
understood1 unless a knowledge is gained
 of those other lives with which it     
comes in contact4 ,in the present story1
 this truth is of wider significance    
than one finds in the lives of the      
majority4 ,here will be painted scenes  
as widely separated as ,kentucky1       
,missouri1 ,texas1 ,australia1 ,england1
 and the ,levant4     ,,the ,,story ,,of
 ,a ,,life4     ,,chapter ,i4  ,a       
,,kentucky ,,girl   ,i don't believe    
she's going to live long1 said the black
 nurse1 mournfully shaking her head4    
,she's so thin and weak1 and she cries  
nearly every night6  ,the nurse was     
speaking of little ,mattie ,myers1 who  
lived in the old ,kentucky town of      
,stanford4 ,the child was seldom to be  
seen engaged in those sports natural to 
children4 ,she was grave1 quiet1        
thoughtful4 ,her one amusement was found

 in her family of dolls2 she was always 
their teacher1 and they were daily going
 to school to her4 ,for companions1 she 
chose those who were much older than    
herself1 and she would sit by the hour1 
soberly listening to theological        
discussion1 weighing1 in her infant     
mind1 the arguments of learned men4     
,her mother was dead1 but ,mattie could 
recall her sympathetic touch1 and tender
 smile4 ,it seemed to her that out of   
the shadow of death her life had        
emerged1 to be clouded by new losses4   
,one after the other1 her two sisters   
were taken from her4 ,then the brother1 
who was her only intimate companion1    
went to another town to teach school4   
,mattie found herself the only young    
person in the large house of her wealthy
 father4  ,of course she received all   
care2 her slightest wishes were granted2
 the love of her widowed father was     
doubly hers1 because of his             
bereavements4 ,but the little girl was  
very lonely4 ,when the flowers sent     

forth their perfume on the warm         
,kentucky breezes1 she was reminded of  
three graves2 and when the sunshine     
gilded the level pike leading toward    
,lancaster1 she felt as if her brother  
,joe were calling her to come and nestle
 against his loving breast4  ,at every  
turn1 the big house in ,stanford        
reminded her of her mother's footsteps1 
her sisters' voices forever hushed1 and 
that beloved brother from whom1 for the 
first time1 she found herself separated4
 ,is it a wonder that the nights often  
witnessed her tears8 ,is it strange that
 there should have grown up within her1 
the intense desire to go to her brother8
 ,she made this wish known to her       
father1 and her brother seconded her in 
the plan4 ,why not stay with ,joe during
 the school year8 ,then they could spend
 the vacations at home1 together4       
,henry ,myers1 the wealthy and          
influential father1 considered this     
proposition4 ,he was an ambitious man4  
,he had spared no expense in giving his 

son a thorough education4 ,he was       
pleased1 now1 to find that little       
,mattie should show a disposition for   
learning4 ,she was only eight years old1
 and yet he felt that1 in the           
companionship of her brother1 she would 
find ample protection4 ,moreover1 while 
a child of eight is usually no fit      
inmate of a boarding-school1 and while  
it is not best to send one so young1 to 
dwell among strangers1 ,mattie was no   
ordinary child4  ,nor was her mother an 
ordinary woman4 ,mary ,burdette         
possessed a cultured and original mind1 
related in sympathies to that of her    
cousin who is known to the world1 in the
 familiarity of affection1 as ,bob      
,burdette4 ,when ,mrs4 ,mary ,burdette  
,myers died1 it was supposed that       
,mattie was too young to appreciate her 
loss4 ,she could not1 of course1        
appraise that loss at its full value1   
but its shadow rested upon her girlhood4
 ,this death1 and that of her sisters1  
had rendered her serious1 had brought   

enforced reflections upon death and     
immortality4 ,the letters that she      
wrote1 almost to the days of maturity1  
are found inclosed in faded little      
envelopes1 which show the black band of 
mourning4  ,no1 there was no danger in  
sending ,mattie to ,lancaster where     
brother ,joe would be her protector4    
,her father consented4  ,the ambition to
 teach school1 entertained by one who   
was a man of means1 was a rare thing in 
the ,south before the ,civil ,war2 or1  
at any rate1 it was rare in ,kentucky4  
,yet that was the ambition of ,joe      
,myers1 and to this ambition he devoted 
his life4 ,he was a natural teacher1 and
 ,mattie1 who admired him above all     
others1 imitated him in all things4     
,what he liked1 she liked1 and what he  
wanted to do1 she meant to do4 ,the     
young man was very fond of music--so was
 his little sister4 ,he opened up an    
academy at ,lancaster--,mattie          
established her first school1 as we have
 seen--a college of dolls4  ,when at    

last it was decided that ,mattie should 
go to ,joe1 great was her joy4 ,some of 
those few golden hours of childhood1    
which she afterward recalled1 came to   
her then4 ,she went--the pike had not   
called in vain--but she did not leave   
her dolls at home4 ,she boarded with her
 brother ,joe ,myers1 and her education 
began in earnest4  ,i was only eight1   
she afterwards said1 when ,i entered a  
boarding school2 my whole family of     
dolls matriculated with me4  ,lancaster 
and ,stanford were not far apart1 though
 in different counties4 ,it was a short 
journey to go home ,friday evening1 and 
visit there until ,monday morning4 ,but 
of course these visits were not of      
weekly occurrence4  ,there was ,joe to  
stay with1 and these two never tired of 
each other's companionship4 ,in the     
twilight-hours1 the young teacher would 
play his flute1 and the little girl     
would sit listening with all her soul1  
translating his music into definite     
resolves4 ,just as he had given his life

 to teaching1 so would she4 ,she        
declared her purpose at that age of     
eight4 ,she would teach a school--a     
school for girls4 ,it was a purpose she 
never changed4  ,thus the years passed  
by1 in sweet companionship with her     
brother during the school months1 and   
with the reunited family every summer4  
,mattie did not grow strong4 ,the black 
nurse still shook her head4 ,we never   
thought she would live6 she often       
declared1 in after years4  ,in the      
meantime1 ,mattie still associated with 
those who were much older than herself1 
still found pleasure in discussion of   
religious differences4 ,we shall find   
her1 at the age of eighteen1 saying that
 most of her friends are married or     
dead1 thus showing that no intimacies   
existed between herself and girls of her
 own age4  ,at twelve1 a change came    
into her life4 ,so thoroughly had she   
pursued her studies at ,lancaster1 that 
it was determined to send her away to   
college4 ,at that time1 the strongest   

college for girls of her father's faith1
 was at ,harrodsburg1 ,kentucky4 ,the   
name of it was ,daughters' ,college4    
,mattie's brother and father1 justly    
proud of her attainments1 and still     
resolved to encourage her in her desire 
to become thoroughly educated1 sent her 
to ,harrodsburg to be instructed by     
,john ,augustus ,williams1 the          
,president of ,daughters' ,college4     
,boarding among strangers1 now far from 
home1 ,mattie found accentuated both her
 spirit of self-reliance1 and her       
attitude of reserve toward others1 two  
traits always shown in her childhood4   
,the six years at ,harrodsburg served to
 strengthen and deepen her              
already-preconceived ideals4 ,john      
,augustus ,williams carried on the work 
that ,joe ,myers had begun4 ,the        
,harrodsburg ,president was as devoted  
to learning as the ,lancaster professor2
 and he had farther penetrated its      
depths4 ,he was1 indeed1 a remarkable   
man1 one who magnified the dignity of   

his calling1 always conscious that the  
better he succeeded as a teacher1 the   
greater would prove his blessing to the 
lives of others4  ,on ,sunday we may    
follow the college girls to church4     
,there goes ,mattie ,myers1 in her      
solid-green woolen dress1 her wonderful 
suit of hair arranged as plainly as such
 a wealth of heavy brown will permit4   
,we see the neat and unpretentious hat  
from under which appear the serious     
brow1 and the eyes always bright and    
intelligent4 ,we note her reliant step2 
her form1 too thin2 her face a little   
weary from over-hard studying4  ,shall  
we not enter this church on ,main       
street1 and watch the young ladies as   
they seat themselves in a bright oblong 
of femininity1 if not of beauty8  ,we   
shall certainly do so1 if we are young  
ministerial students1 attending the     
,university6 ,unfortunately1 young      
,oliver ,carr cannot enter with us1 for 
he is still over yonder at ,may's ,lick2
 but never mind--he will presently be   

coming down to find out what ,latin is  
like6 ,what happy fortune has brought   
the ,university for young men into the  
same town that affords a college for    
young ladies8 ,that1 too1 we shall      
presently understand4  ,at any rate1    
here sits ,mattie ,myers1 decorously    
listening1 it would appear--we hope she 
is not thinking about her studies--while
 ,dr4 ,robert ,richardson1 or ,robert   
,graham1 or ,robert ,milligan--all      
teachers at the ,university 7among whom 
,robert seems a favorite name7--preaches
 and preaches4 ,about what8 ,why1 about 
what we must do to be saved1 to be sure4
 ,and ,mattie listening eagerly--for of 
course she listens--finds that these    
distinguished men agree entirely with   
her father1 that what we must do to be  
saved is very much like what ,peter     
declared we must do--nay1 is exactly    
what ,peter declared1 to the very words4
 ,far1 indeed1 is it from the mind of   
this thin1 erect girl in the dress of   
solid-green1 and under the hair whose   

splendor refuses to be concealed--far is
 it from her mind that any young man of 
the ,kentucky froglands is ever to enter
 her life as an integral part6          
,illustration3 ,pres4 ,jno4 ,aug4       
,william4   ,daughters ,college4        
,harrodsburg ,ky  ,little time is there 
for day dreams for this child6--,little 
time1 and no inclination4 ,study--ever  
deeper and more persistent study for    
her2 late hours after the lamps are out1
 sitting in the window with long hair   
streaming1 borrowing favor from the     
moon--that means spectacles in no very  
short time6 ,study--ever more absorbed1 
and absorbing study1 at noon-recess1 in 
early morning1 on holidays--till the    
form grows thinner1 the face paler2 and1
 indeed1 she had better have a care1 or 
all this will come to an end1 with pain 
and disappointment6  ,the sermon is     
nearly ended4 ,are you sorry you missed 
it8 ,an hour and a quarter1 already6 ,do
 the school girls move uneasily in the  
straight-backed benches8 ,let us hope   

they are entertained by this searching  
examination of sectarian positions4 ,how
 new that church building seems to them6
 ,why1 it was finished only a few years 
ago--that is to say1 in #ahej4 ,there   
was a time when two bodies of believers 
met in ,harrodsburg2 one organized by   
the followers of ,barton ,stone1 who    
called themselves ,christians1 another  
the disciples who had followed ,john    
,smith and ,john ,t4 ,johnson out of the
 ,baptist church4 ,the ,christians met  
from house to house2 the disciples in   
the old frame building at the corner of 
,south ,main and ,depot streets1 nearly 
opposite the public square4 ,each body  
was suspicious of the other till1 one   
day1 they found out that they taught the
 same things1 believed the same truths1 
were1 in short1 blood-brothers of faith 
and practice4 ,so they came together and
 formed the church which ,mattie is     
attending4 ,she comes every ,sunday2 and
 every ,sunday you will find1 if you    
examine her closely1 that she is a      

little paler1 a little weaker4 ,working 
too hard6 ,the end must come if this is 
kept up1 year after year4  ,we find the 
girl subject to an unappeasable hunger  
for facts4 ,is she not to devote her    
life to teaching her sex8 ,now is the   
time to store the mind4 ,john ,augustus 
,williams spurs her on1 leads her into  
untold scientific difficulties2 lets her
 realize how little is her strength2    
then aids by teaching her to help       
herself4 ,one thing he does not help her
 do--that is to husband her physical    
forces4 ,as he stands before his        
daughters in chapel he hammers away at  
this idea3  ,teaching is woman's        
profession and her natural vocation4 ,no
 lady can claim to be well educated1    
therefore1 or trained for her proper    
sphere in life1 until she has learned to
 teach1 and to govern the young4 ,the   
learning which prepares her for the     
school-room1 prepares her at the same   
time for the highest social and domestic
 position4 ,no time is lost by such a   

training1 even should the student never 
become a professional teacher4  ,it is  
no wonder that the enunciation of these 
ideas strengthened the girl's           
resolutions4 ,here was the most learned 
man she had ever met in daily life1 a   
polished speaker1 a graceful author1 a  
correct translator2 one who reads the   
pages of his manuscript1 ,the ,life of  
,john ,smith1 that his class may parse  
it2#a a preacher1 too1 who pointed the  
way back to ,pentecost4 ,wisdom flowed  
from his lips1 and his lips proclaimed  
teaching the natural vocation of woman4 
,and the way in which this teaching was 
to be done--in a word1 his conception of
 what an education means--that justified
 his dictum4 ,he said over and over     
again3  ,you have an infallible         
criterion by which you may determine the
 success of your own and your teacher's 
labors4 ,if you feel in your heart a    
greater susceptibility to truth1 a      
livelier appreciation of the purely     
beautiful1 a profounder regard for      

virtue1 a warmer affection for the good1
 and sublimer devotion to ,god1 esteem  
your labors as eminently successful2 but
 if your attainments1 varied and        
extensive as they may be1 are to render 
you less amiable in disposition1 or less
 pure in thought--less charitable to    
your fellows1 or less devoted to ,god1  
then have we labored in vain1 and your  
learning1 also1 has been in vain4  ,to  
such a teacher as this1 every year is a 
book written full of sweet              
influences1--books far deeper and more  
permanent than any work of the pen4 ,the
 girl understood this2 that is why her  
determination to be a teacher grew and  
ripened2 not to impart facts but1 by    
means of facts1 to inculcate the love of
 learning and of truth4 ,she wanted to  
come into touch with the world1 and to  
send the ripple of her personal         
influence far out into those magic      
circles of infinite distance1 which the 
casting of an idea forms on the sea of  
thought4 ,she wanted girls1 many girls1 

countless girls1--to receive a higher   
view of life by having known her2 to    
enter more fully into the inheritance of
 their estate through her ministration4 
,no other relation than that of teacher 
and pupil1 could connect this circuit of
 spiritual influence4  ,teachers--the   
world was full of them in those days1   
just such as they are now2 teachers who 
bend beneath their burden1 who seek in  
their business but a means of           
livelihood1 and who are ready to lay    
aside the textbook and close the desk1  
when fortune smiles3 who see their day's
 end at four o'clock1 and their         
happiness1 at the dawn of vacation4 ,but
 there have always been1 of teachers1 a 
few who regarded their work as ,williams
 regarded his1 and who1 as in ,mattie's 
case1 with no spur of necessity1        
selected it from all careers the future 
had to offer4  ,but we do not mean that 
these highest ambitions of a teacher's  
sovereign realm took definite shape in  
the girl's mind in her twelfth year2 for

 see6 ,she is no longer twelve1 but     
thirteen--fourteen--fifteen--how fast   
she is getting her education6--sixteen--
  ,and then the blow fell--we said it   
would6--hours too late1 and thought too 
intense1 and eyes too severely taxed6   
,has it been for nothing1 after all8    
,she must flutter back home1 now1 like a
 disabled bird2 high ideas all lost in a
 maze1 definite purposes fused white-hot
 in a raging fever4  ,not only so1 but  
in her sudden breakdown of vital force1 
there is no one to understand the       
despair over her own weakness1 except1  
indeed1 that brother ,joe who alone     
understands her4 ,mother and father are 
both dead1 now2 and the sisters who are 
proud of her attainments--for she had   
finished in the ,junior ,year at        
,daughters' ,college1--wonder that she  
is not satisfied4 ,is it not enough8    
,already she is educated4  ,and she is  
sixteen2 and her inheritance assures her
 of future freedom from necessity4 ,it  
will be a long time1 the doctors say1   

before she can resume her studies--a    
year1 at least2 maybe two4 ,but does    
that matter8 ,in two years she will be  
of age1 and rich1 or nearly so1 in her  
own right4  ,and then1 said brother     
,joe1 ,i will find her a rich husband1  
and see her handsomely established for  
life6  ,not that ,joe had himself       
married2 he was too busy teaching       
school1 and too absorbed in his beloved 
work2 but he felt the responsibility of 
his guardianship4 ,mattie was too ill1  
too broken in spirit1 to combat his     
plans or to form any of her own4 ,she   
could only lie silent and1 suffering1   
uncertain of the outcome4  ,leaving her 
thus1 as we found her at the beginning1 
in suffering and tears1 let us make a   
journey to ,mason ,county1 in search of 
that possible husband4 ,he may not prove
 so rich as brother ,joe could desire4  
,we shall see4   #a ,that drill in      
,rhetoric1 in ,english pure and         
undefiled when she analyzed and parsed  
every sentence of the ,manuscript read  

to the class ,mrs4 ,carr often spoke of1
 and of ,john ,smith who1 in his last   
days1 abode at ,daughters' ,college to  
furnish material for his biography4 ,she
 was always proud of the fact that ,john
 ,augustus ,williams taught her         
,english4     ,,chapter ,,ii4  ,,ideals4
   ,but no1 the biographer1 on second   
thought1 will not go up to ,may's ,lick 
in the present chapter4 ,let that       
expedition be reserved for ,chapter     
,third4 ,and let those who care for the 
story of lives merely for events1 not   
for motive-springs of action1 skip the  
present chapter1 if they will4 ,it will 
be to their loss1 if they do so2 for    
what life is to be understood1 without  
an understanding of the principles that 
direct its course8  ,in the life we are 
seeking to trace1 there were three great
 principles that shaped events4 ,the    
first has already been amplified--the   
resolve to become a teacher of girls4   
,the other two must be defined--one's   
thought of country1 and one's religious 

faith4  ,in those days1 a man who had no
 opinion on the slavery question1 or on 
the current reformation1 was no true    
,kentuckian4 ,if one has slaves1 his    
children are not only disposed to regard
 slavery as right1 but as highly        
fortunate and desirable4 ,also1 when    
one's religion is being placed on trial 
at every crossroad's log-schoolhouse1   
the smallest girls in the household have
 some opinions on the ,gospel ,restored1
 on ,election1 on ,baptism4             
,illustration3 ,studying too ,hard4     
,illustration3 ,brother ,joe4  ,in the  
veins of ,mattie ,myers flowed ,southern
 blood1 and it was with the ,south that 
she sympathized with all that fire of   
young enthusiasm that characterized     
,southern adherents in those days4 ,as  
for her religion1 that calls for more   
particular description1 because it is   
indistinguishably blended with all her  
emotions and purposes4 ,it was no more  
,mattie's intention to become a teacher 
of girls1 than it was to spread a       

knowledge of the ,gospel as she herself 
understood it4  ,in portraying the      
belief of this child--a belief that time
 served only to strengthen--it is far   
from our thought to influence the       
particular faith of the reader4 ,that   
biographer is unworthy of his task who  
allows his own opinions to color his    
narrative4 ,what ,i believe has no more 
to do with the life of ,mattie ,myers1  
than has the belief of the reader2 and  
this is the story of a life1 not a      
controversy in disguise4  ,but at the   
same time1 it is not only due the       
reader1 but the object of the biography1
 that the faith of ,mattie should be    
presented so clearly and so fairly that 
no one can fail to understand what it   
was4 ,i shall do my utmost to make it   
plain4 ,it occupied too great a part of 
the girl's life and the woman's life1 to
 be ignored4 ,as she sat at her father's
 knee in ,stanford1 as she rested with  
her brother on the porch of the         
boarding-house in ,lancaster1 as she    

made her stage-journeys1 in short1      
wherever she was1 she heard religion    
discussed in all its phases4 ,and that  
phase which appealed to her was the same
 that ,walter ,scott--kinsman of the    
illustrious novelist--had proclaimed    
from state to state4  ,one peculiarity  
of this faith was1 that whoever accepted
 it with zeal1 became more or less      
antagonistic1 combative4 ,it was not    
because it despised peace1 although     
peace1 in later years has sometimes     
proved fatal to it2 but it was because  
every hand seemed turned against it4    
,had it asked for peace in #ahej1 that  
petition would doubtless have been      
derided4  ,and why8 ,because an         
acceptance of this faith meant an end to
 all creeds1 to all sects1 to all       
denominational barriers4 ,therefore all 
denominations felt that the faith of    
,mattie ,myers had raised its hand      
against them4 ,when ,walter ,scott and  
his co-workers prayed the ,savior's     
prayer that all might be one1 what--if  

that prayer be granted--was to become of
 the many8  ,it may be true1 in the     
,twentieth ,century1 that one need only 
have enough money to hire a hall1 in    
order to start a new religion2 that     
,society has but to smile upon the      
dancing of ,dervishes to popularize     
,orientalism2 that a woman1 by the      
writing of a book1 can convince         
intelligent thousands that diseases are 
but delusions of their mortal           
minds--perhaps instincts would be a     
better word1 since unimaginative        
quadrupeds sometimes think themselves   
sick4 ,but whether this is true or not1 
it is certain that1 in the first half of
 the ,nineteenth ,century1 it required  
much more than money1 and more than the 
writing of many books1 this endeavor to 
re-establish the old religion of        
,pentecost4 ,it called for courage1     
firmness and ability2 it invited        
persecution and misrepresentation4  ,i  
would rather1 an aunt of ,oliver ,carr  
once declared--herself a stern soldier  

of the ,cross--see you go to your grave1
 than have you join the ,campbellite    
,church6  ,what was this ,campbellite   
,church of which some spoke thus        
disparagingly8 ,and why ,campbellite8   
,and why did the denominations regard   
the people they thus designated much as1
 at a later day1 the ,mormons were      
regarded8 ,before we enter into details1
 it is enough at this point to emphasize
 the fact of general intolerance4 ,to   
worship ,god in your own way is the     
right of all2 and no man disputes that  
inborn right1 so long as you agree with 
him in your religious belief4 ,the      
,puritans were ready to sacrifice their 
lives to preserve religious freedom1 and
 to take the lives of those who desired 
a separate freedom4  ,in the first half 
of the ,nineteenth ,century1 more       
especially in the first quarter1 the    
jangling and wrangling among different  
sects was almost inconceivable4 ,it     
would appear that often where           
differences of tenets were but slight1  

the fight was the more determined1 as if
 the possibility of preserving a        
denominational integrity1 depended      
largely upon keeping alive a spirit of  
hostility to all other denominations4   
,happily that spirit of antagonism has  
largely died out1 and men are not so    
ready to take each other by the throat  
because they are seeking to gain ,heaven
 by different ways4 ,this tendency to   
minimize differences of speculative     
opinions1 and to draw close to each     
other on the fundamental truths as they 
are revealed in the life1 death and     
resurrection of ,jesus ,christ1 is      
doubtless in a large measure due to the 
pioneers of that faith which ,mattie    
,myers had accepted1 and which1 at the  
time of her acceptance1 was the object  
of so much bitterness and ridicule4     
,thirty years had already passed since  
,walter ,scott and ,alexander ,campbell 
first proclaimed their views in the     
,christian ,baptist4 ,the distracted    
state of the religious world had grieved

 many a pious and erudite soul before   
#ahai4 ,in looking for a solution to the
 amazing perplexities that baffled the  
seeker after ,god1 in trying to avoid   
the anomalous condition of changing a   
gospel of love to a gospel of           
interminable disputation1 the solution  
proposed by ,thomas ,campbell was a     
return to the practices and faith of the
 early disciples4 ,this solution was    
urged by ,walter ,scott and ,alexander  
,campbell4 ,what more simple8 ,everybody
 should be willing to accept the ,bible2
 everybody should be willing to discard 
everything else6  ,in brief1 then1 that 
was the work of the current reformation4
 ,it would call for a sacrifice of      
individual opinions1 of sectarian names 
and dogmas1 of that poetic atmosphere   
which time bestows upon any             
organization1 of those intimate human   
associations derived from a commingling 
with relatives and friends whom a common
 rule of practice holds together4 ,as a 
recompense for this sacrifice1 was      

offered the privilege of returning to   
the ,apostolic faith and manner of      
worship1 the sense of security that     
should spring from following closely in 
the footsteps of the earliest disciples1
 and the privilege of performing one's  
part in the realization of the prayer of
 the ,savior of mankind4  ,alexander    
,campbell's life was given to this      
fundamental idea--that the world should 
go back1 in its religious beliefs and   
practices1 nineteen hundred years1 to   
learn again the conditions of its       
salvation from the lips of ,christ's    
apostles4 ,campbell himself1 was but a  
voice calling in the wilderness4 ,he    
seemed always to be crying1 ,look back6 
,behold the ,lamb of ,god6 ,as for      
himself1 he would have been but the     
medium through which an enlightened     
vision might see that glorious spectacle
 of ,god in man4 ,do not regard me1 he  
seemed to say1 ,for ,i am nothing4 ,i am
 but a voice--a voice proclaiming no new
 doctrine1 only the old2 asking you not 

to originate a new faith1 but to        
remember the old4 ,look back6 ,behold   
the ,lamb of ,god6  ,but the world did  
not wish to look back4 ,it exclaimed    
that these people who pretended to do   
away with all sects1 were themselves the
 narrowest sect of all4 ,these preachers
 who proclaimed that there was but one  
church1 were accused of wanting to get  
us into their church4 ,the result was   
endless debates4 ,we have seen that the 
denominations were at war with one      
another2 but all of them became more or 
less cohesive1 in their attack upon     
these people who claimed to be no       
denomination4  ,if ,campbell and his    
friends urged that baptism should be    
administered as in the days of the      
,apostles1 the cry was immediately      
raised that ,these men believe in       
nothing but baptism4 ,if their editors  
asked for an instance of infant baptism 
between the lids of the ,bible1 it was  
retorted that ,they have only a head    
religion--they don't believe in a change

 of heart4 ,if a preacher said no more  
about baptism than did ,peter on        
,pentecost1 his listeners went away     
observing that he believed water would  
save him4 ,if nothing was said about    
baptism1 if on the contrary1 the        
discourse were concentrated upon the    
idea that all ,christians should follow 
the same rule and practice1 should dwell
 together in one great homogeneous body1
 it was charged1 ,that is really another
 way of saying that immersion is the    
only mode of baptism4 ,if1 by dint of   
innumerable repetitions1 ,herculean     
efforts at self-restraint1 monotonous   
insistence1 these reformers succeeded in
 convincing the antagonist of the fact  
that nobody believed water would save   
him1 and every ,christian believes in a 
change of heart1 all this laborious and 
indefatigable endeavor went for nothing4
  ,well1 maybe you do believe in a      
change of heart1 it would at last be    
conceded1 but your church don't4 ,or    
,maybe you don't believe water will save

 you1 but your church does4  ,such as   
the views of the disciples of ,christ   
really were1 ,mattie ,myers had received
 them at first hand4 ,her father was one
 of the new faith4 ,his home had1 from  
her earliest recollections1 been a      
rallying point for the sturdy pioneers  
of the ,old ,jerusalem ,gospel4 ,in that
 home1 ,raccoon ,john ,smith and ,barton
 ,w4 ,stone had held her upon their     
knees4 ,she had seen ,walter ,scott and 
,alexander ,campbell in childhood1 and  
had heard ,l4 ,l4 ,pinkerton's          
eloquence1 and ,robert ,milligan's      
logic4 ,she knew the matters debated1   
the arguments that sustained each side  
in its opinion1--and she could point out
 the verse of scripture that seemed to  
substantiate every claim of her friends1
 and to confound those of the enemy4    
,and she knew how families had become   
divided2 how bitterness crept in between
 life-long friends2 how misunderstanding
 led to misrepresentation1 and argument 
to vilification1 and disapproval to     

hatred4  ,whatever else the plea of the 
disciples accomplished1 it led to a     
closer study of the scriptures2 and to a
 fuller admission of their authority4   
,this was inevitable because the        
adherents of what was disparagingly     
called the new religion1 based all their
 positions upon the ,word of ,god4 ,even
 farther than that they went1 in        
declaring that they entertained no      
doctrine not fully presented in the ,new
 ,testament2 they were willing to       
relinquish any belief1 no matter how    
dear1 on being shown that it was not    
divinely authorized4  ,it was futile to 
meet such claims by references to any   
other book than that of the inspired    
writers1 unless those books were        
lexicons and dictionaries devoted to an 
explanation of biblical terms4 ,to the  
lexicons1 the friends and enemies of the
 reformation did indeed go4 ,there were 
times when1 if ,polycarp1 or            
,chrysostum1 or even ,sophocles1 or     
,plato1 could have stepped into the     

debating-room1 he might have fancied    
himself just awakened from his long     
sleep1 to hear confused murmurs in his  
native tongue4  ,under this awful weight
 of learning1 the brain sometimes       
staggered4 ,to the imprudent1 to the    
rash1 to the over-zealous1 vital truths 
might1 at times1 be half-obscured1 in   
showing the eunuch as he went down into 
the water--eis1 into2 ah6 shall we ever 
forget that eis with its suggestion of  
the cooling tide8--,into the water1     
then1 the eunuch descended2 and good    
care was taken that he should not be    
left there4 ,the jailer1 too1--was there
 no water in the courtyard8 ,and        
,lydia's household--what right has one  
to presume her mistress over a nursery8 
,at these debates1 even the eloquent    
,henry ,clay may act as moderator1      
generously appreciative of the eloquence
 of ,a4 ,campbell4 ,so1 as we have said1
 the theme may at times grow obscured   
with a sort of ,greek mist2 but out of  
this mist there rises1 at last1 a face  

of meekness and suffering beneath its   
crown of thorns--a crown of thorns1 dear
 reader1 which the ,son of ,god wore    
that you and ,i might wear crowns of    
glory4  ,it is interesting to note that 
here is a religion which its opponents  
refused to take at its face value4 ,its 
adherents wished to be called only by   
,bible names1 such as ,christians1 or   
disciples of ,christ4 ,their opponents  
called them ,campbellites4 ,these       
disciples claimed that they had gone    
back to the days of the beginning of the
 church1 to find there the true standard
 of faith and practice4 ,their opponents
 said they had started a new religion1  
and that it dated from the days of      
,alexander ,campbell4 ,the disciples    
said that they added nothing to the     
,word of ,god1 took from it nothing2    
that where the ,bible was silent they   
were silent1 that where it spoke they   
spoke2 that1 in matters of opinion1     
everyone might think what he pleased1   
but that1 in matters of essentials1     

there should be unity4 ,the opponents   
said that as a matter of fact1 the      
religion of the reformers was a religion
 of the head1 and that its central idea 
was baptism4  ,you do not believe that  
baptism is necessary to salvation1 the  
disciples said2 then why do you baptize8
  ,aha6 the old cry was raised1 you     
think water will save you6 ,and then the
 begrudged concession1 ,well1 if you    
don't believe it1 your church does6  ,in
 a word1 then1 the individual adherents 
of the religion were allowed to hold    
opinions contrary to what the adherents 
as a whole1 were supposed to believe2   
while1 at the same time1 not one        
adherent of the religion could be found 
who professed to hold the views that the
 opponents of the religion ascribed to  
all the brotherhood6 ,this was not from 
a willful determination to misrepresent1
 but rather from a sense of generous    
good-will4 ,it was the only way to      
rescue one's kindred and friends from   
the inevitable hell that awaits the     

adherents of heretical doctrines4  ,tom 
is a good man1 said a devout adherent of
 the established order of things1       
referring to minister ,thomas ,arnold of
 the ,kentucky disciples1 but he        
preaches a lie and will be damned for   
it6 ,and the way to save one's beloved  
from this damnation was to believe that 
they did not really hold the views of   
these ,ishmaelites of the new religion1 
but were ,baptists at heart--or         
,pedobaptists1 according to one's point 
of view4  ,thomas ,campbell's           
,declaration and ,address appeared in   
#ahji2 but it was not until ,september1 
#ahcb that the first general meeting of 
the disciples of ,christ was held1 in   
,lexington1 ,kentucky4 ,everyone        
understood that such an assemblage had  
no authority over local organizations4  
,christian soldiers came together to    
talk over their victories and defeats1  
and to plan for fresh campaigns4 ,as    
time passed by1 such men as ,john ,t4   
,johnson and ,john ,i4 ,rogers were     

appointed state evangelists2 but they   
were supported by several churches      
combining to furnish the funds4  ,at the
 time ,mattie ,carr was boarding at her 
brother's school1 there was no general  
board behind missionary enterprises4    
,but later a convention met at          
,harrodsburg and employed four          
evangelists2 that was in #aheg4 ,the    
next year sixteen were employed1 and in 
a year they won #a1icf converts to the  
church4 ,the year following1 twenty     
evangelists added to the faith #b1jbj4  
,the new religion was growing at an     
unheard of rate1 and the more it grew   
the hotter raged the noise of battle and
 the clash of arms4  ,it is in such     
circumstances as these that one learns  
to weigh one's own opinion1 to use it1  
if need be1 as a battering-ram against  
the opinions of other folk2 that one    
learns to realize the importance of     
self-reliance1 self-defense1            
self-assertion4 ,before ,mattie ,myers  
was twelve years old1 the leading       

purposes of her after-life were already 
crystalized in thought and              
determination4 ,it will be interesting  
to watch how she adhered to these       
principles1 and whither they brought her
 at last4 ,as we have said1 they were   
three in number1 more or less commingled
 in her girlhood's plans of life2 an    
unwavering devotion to the ,south2 a    
fixed resolve to become a teacher of    
girls2 and a conviction that the plea of
 the disciples of ,christ was the need  
of the world4     ,,chapter ,,iii4  ,a  
,,kentucky ,,boy4   ,it was while the   
black nurse was doubtfully shaking her  
head over the prospect of a long life   
for ,mattie ,myers1 that two boys       
presented themselves at the village     
schoolhouse of ,may's ,lick1 ,kentucky4 
,they were two brothers who resembled   
each other so closely1 and were so      
inseparable1 that they were often       
thought to be twins4 ,oliver ,carr1     
however1 was two years younger than     
,owen#b4 ,they had come up from the     

country in the old family barouche1 and 
the fact that they were from the        
country1 was shown in their movements   
and their dress4  ,their father1 while  
still on the farm in ,lewis ,county1 had
 declared1 ,i will educate my children1 
if ,i don't leave them a cent when ,i   
die4 ,that is why he sold his farm to   
invest the proceeds in town property at 
,may's ,lick2 and that is why ,owen and 
,oliver are presenting themselves at the
 door of ,may's ,lick ,academy4 ,the    
family that had just moved to town1     
consisted of ,william ,carr and his     
wife1 and their four sons and three     
daughters4 ,of the children1 the only   
one essential to this narrative is he   
who gave his name to the teacher as     
,oliver ,a4 ,carr--better known in his  
family and among his young companions as
 ,ollie4  ,the year was #aheg4 ,of all  
the proud towns of ,kentucky--proud of  
blood and wealth--no city was prouder   
than ,may's ,lick4 ,not even ,lexington1
 five counties to the southwest1 thought

 more of her high birth1 her fine       
horses1 her opulence1 than did this     
little ,may's ,lick of ,mason ,county4  
,the schoolmates of the ,carrs were the 
children of the wealthy4 ,the boys came 
to school in red-topped boots1 riding   
prancing ponies1 and were waited upon by
 their black bodyguards4 ,the girls were
 petted1 and spoiled1 clad in dainty    
apparel1 born to refinement and a nicety
 of taste1 intolerant of whatever       
appeared to their sensitive minds as    
common4 ,nor was this superiority of    
manner merely superficial4 ,beneath the 
gleam of showy beauty1 there was the    
gold of culture4  ,naturally enough1    
these children of the rich1 whether on  
the play-ground1 or in the school-room1 
stood aloof from ,owen and ,oliver1--or 
as they were called ,bud and ,ollie4 ,in
 the first place1 they were newcomers2  
again1 they were awkward and their      
clothes were made from the same piece of
 their mother's weaving2 and their      
father had purchased one of the two     

hotels in town4 ,he works1 himself6 it  
was said1 with pity1 or contempt4 ,and  
the sentiment against ,william ,carr    
because his work was not done by slaves1
 was reflected against his seven        
children4  ,but ,william ,carr1 rugged  
and unyielding1 firm in his belief that 
education would place his boys and girls
 on a footing with the best1 conducted  
the hotel1 while his wife1 patient and  
tireless1 sewed long after the hours of 
the day's inevitable work were ended4   
,to clothe and educate seven children   
while all the time one's cashier is     
stealing systematically--that is the    
problem6  ,it is a problem that little  
concerns the lads of the red-topped     
boots and prancing ponies1 or the girls 
of fine laces1--still less the fathers  
of these2 for all their spare time is   
spent in reminiscences of ,henry ,clay1 
and in defining differences between the 
,north and ,south--for this is #aheg1 as
 we have said1 and in a few years       
something may happen4  ,but it is not   

given to every boy to wear red-tops1 nor
 to every girl1 real lace4 ,of course   
there were other families falling under 
the supercilious classification of those
 who do their own work4 ,at such times  
as the ,carrs were not studying1 or     
reciting to ,l4 ,p4 ,streater1 or       
helping at home1 companions were to be  
found1 to bear a hand at a game of      
marbles4 ,oliver had the genius of      
making friends2 and1 when no artificial 
barriers interposed1 his gentle nature  
thawed the ice in natures most reserved4
  ,sometimes it happened that1 as       
,oliver and his friends were engaged in 
sports along the roadside1 they would   
see a venerable man drawing near1 smooth
 faced1 broad browed1 stately in        
bearing1 kindly in expression4 ,if it   
chanced to be a time of heated          
altercation1 the warning would go       
round--  ,hush6 hush6 ,there comes      
,brother ,walter ,scott4  ,the old man  
would pause with1 ,well1 dears1 how do  
you do1 this nice morning8 ,are you on  

your way to school8  ,then he would pat 
one on the head1 and say a pleasant word
 to all4 ,in his presence ill-humor     
melted away1 and evil purposes were     
corrected4 ,it was not only so with the 
school boys1 but with their fathers4    
,his very presence seemed a rebuke to   
wrong-doing and wrong-thinking4         
,sometimes he came to the ,academy and  
addressed the pupils4 ,oliver stood at  
the head of the class in mathematics4   
,one day after reciting geometry1 ,elder
 ,scott1 as he was called--or ,brother  
,scott--said1 with that gracious smile  
which lent the aspect of perennial youth
 to his wrinkled face1  ,young          
gentlemen1 you have made good progress  
in ,euclid4 ,it was the first time      
,oliver had ever heard of ,euclid1 but  
he knew the enunciation of every        
proposition in the first five ,books1   
and had drawn the figures with elaborate
 care on his father's barn door6 ,but he
 had not studied ,latin4  ,that         
language1 said his practical father1 is 

dead6  ,the almost daily meeting with   
,walter ,scott was one of those         
formative influences1 unperceived at the
 time1 which help to shape one's ideals4
 ,let us look for a moment at this      
benign figure with his gentle smile1 his
 keen1 penetrating glance1 and his still
 almost raven-black locks4 ,he had      
brought to the ,kentucky village an     
atmosphere of the great outside world1  
for he was a man who had not only come  
in touch with the great and illustrious1
 but who had himself participated in    
great affairs4  ,it meant much to the   
young mathematician at ,may's ,lick     
,academy1 this daily intercourse with   
such a man4 ,it inevitably raised his   
mind above the daily toil1 the          
unstimulating routine of a small town2  
it gave him a certain outlook upon a    
wider life1 suggesting higher things    
than had hitherto entered his           
experience4  ,this venerable ,walter    
,scott--he who had held little ,mattie  
,myers upon his knee--was a man in whose

 veins flowed the blood of ,wat1 of     
,hardin--most illustrious of ,scottish  
heroes4 ,he was kin to the creator of   
,ivanhoe and ,rebecca2 a man who had    
graduated from the ,university of       
,edinburg2 who had sailed the seas and  
traveled in many distant scenes2 whose  
music instructor had been the friend of 
,sir ,ralph ,abercrombie2 who had been  
by turn teacher1 preacher1 editor1      
author2 who had traversed the circular  
avenues of poplars and pines leading to 
the mansion-house of ,henry ,clay1 trees
 which made me fancy myself once more in
 ,scotia--and who had sat in ,clay's    
parlor in charming intercourse with the 
statesman while the portrait of         
,washington looked down1 and the elegant
 simplicity of the apartments presented 
nothing to make poor men afraid1 or rich
 men ashamed2 who had ridden on the     
steamboat with the distinguished        
companionship of ,general ,schuyler's   
daughter1 the widow of ,alexander       
,hamilton1 then in her eighty-fourth    

year2 who had visited the home of       
,colonel ,richard ,m4 ,johnson2 and who1
 finally1 had come to ,may's ,lick to   
pass the remainder of his days4  ,it was
 natural enough that the very sight of  
this man should suggest to the studious 
youth1 thoughts of greatness and of     
travel4 ,his kinship to ,sir ,walter    
,scott and his familiarity with the     
lands beyond the seas1 no doubt lent him
 a sort of halo1 to the imagination of  
boyhood4 ,but it must have done more    
than this2 it must have suggested that  
one need not remain poor and unknown2   
and that1 as ,walter ,scott1 when a poor
 young man had lifted himself above his 
condition by means of his education1 so 
might ,oliver ,carr4  ,the postoffice   
was in ,william ,carr's hotel4 ,william 
was the postmaster1 and during vacation1
 or at intervals1 ,oliver served as     
deputy4 ,after the arrival of the mail1 
the distinguished scholar1 ,walter      
,scott1 would appear at the counter with
 his benignant smile1 and his ,dear-- he

 called all young people thus--,dear1 is
 there anything for me1 this morning8   
,and ,oliver was as pleased as he1 when 
there was a ,louisville ,courier to hand
 his friend1 or a letter from ,ohio1 or 
,pittsburg1 or ,new ,york4  ,there      
remains a word to be said as to what    
this ,walter ,scott was2 for1 after all1
 where one has traveled1 or whom one has
 met1 speaks little of the inner self2  
and it was this personal value of the   
man that counted most with those he met4
  ,it was in #ahai that ,walter ,scott  
landed in ,new ,york1 and began teaching
 ,latin in ,long ,island--diverting     
himself with his flute at the close of  
the day4 ,but he soon felt the call of  
the ,west1 and obeyed it afoot4 ,it     
brought him to ,pittsburg1 where he     
found himself drawn into school work    
again4 ,he became an assistant in the   
,academy conducted by ,mr4 ,forrester1 a
 fellow-countryman4 ,scott had been     
reared in the ,presbyterian faith1 and  
his soul had been perfectly satisfied in

 those religious grounds staked off by  
his denomination's creed4 ,he had not   
associated long with ,forrester before  
he found to his amazement that the      
latter1 though apparently of sincere    
piety1 did not subscribe to all the     
articles2 but1 instead of seeking to    
attack the ,confession with the         
,discipline or the ,prayer ,book1 had   
recourse to the ,bible4 ,not only so1   
but ,forrester professed himself ready  
to give up any article of faith that did
 not appear fully warranted by the      
,scriptures2 or1 in other words1 he had 
resolved to be guided in religious      
matters by the ,bible alone4  ,it is    
difficult for one of the present day to 
realize how radical1 unheard of1 and    
unorthodox1 such a determination as     
,forrester's appeared in the year #ahai4
 ,it is true that men here and there1 in
 places far removed from one another1   
were beginning to weary of the burden of
 the creeds2 they were reaching out to  
grasp something that might pull their   

feet from the shackles of doubt or      
predetermined damnation1 and in         
desperate blindness they seized upon the
 ,word of ,god as likely to prove of    
most avail4 ,it was1 indeed1 heresy2 for
 if all had deserted creeds for the     
,bible1 what would have become of the   
creeds8 ,in ,luther's day it had been   
heretical to decry ,indulgences2 if a   
,baptist1 it was heretical not to       
believe in the peculiar and eternal     
election of men and angels to glory1 and
 in a particular redemption of a        
definite number of persons to eternal   
life1 and the final perseverance of the 
saints in grace to the end4  ,walter    
,scott felt no hesitation in joining    
,forrester in his studies of the ,new   
,testament1 secure in the belief that   
nothing could be found there1           
inconsistent with his creed2 henceforth1
 we find him sitting far into the night1
 no longer solacing himself with the    
music of his flute1 but studying the    
,bible with ever greater and greater    

perplexity2 studying it as diligently as
 ever he had studied the ,confession2   
studying it with increasing uneasiness1 
as it seemed to lead him from the faith 
of his fathers4  ,there was1 at that    
time1 no body of associated men who had 
agreed to surrender all creeds1 and take
 the ,bible as their only guide4 ,there 
were isolated examples of such men4     
,alexander ,campbell1 of whom ,walter   
,scott had never heard1 had been forced 
by his convictions from the             
,presbyterian church into the ,baptist  
association4 ,not long after the        
beginning of ,scott's explorations into 
this dimly-known field of original      
research1 he and the celebrated scholar 
met2 but neither had a thought of       
breaking away from the accepted         
religious bodies2 the only question was 
to find the one nearest approximating   
the truth1 and to seek reformation      
within that body4  ,the result of that  
effort to bring back the primitive      
church upon earth1 is seen today in the 

church of the disciples of ,christ4     
,this is not the place to argue the     
feasibility of the plea1 or to adduce   
arguments against it4 ,but what that    
plea was1 should be presented clearly   
and dispassionately4 ,it is not the     
office of the biographer to point out   
the right or wrong of his subject's     
dominating ideas1 so much as it is to   
show how the life was influenced by     
those motive-springs of thought4        
,walter ,scott1 as an evangelist1       
pastor1 author and editor1 had come into
 contact with tens of thousands1 and had
 influenced countless lives4 ,his       
followers were called by the            
unsympathetic1 ,scottites1 just as those
 of ,alexander ,campbell were nicknamed 
,campbellites4 ,thomas and ,alexander   
,campbell and ,walter ,scott1 the       
triumvirate of the dawning ,reformation1
 did not come1 however1 to found        
denominations1 but1 so far as they      
could1 to do away with them4  ,they     
believed that it was possible for the   

church of ,new ,testament days to exist 
in the modern world1 just as it had     
existed then4 ,they believed that the   
means of entering the church now1 are   
what they were then2 that ,christ's     
conditions were in their very nature of 
divinity1 unalterable4 ,as ,peter       
preached on the day of ,pentecost1 so   
,walter ,scott preached in the          
,nineteenth ,century4 ,as ,cornelius and
 the jailer and the eunuch and ,lydia   
and all other recorded instances of     
sinners converted in olden times1 so man
 today1 in turning to ,god1 must turn as
 they turned1 come as they came1 obey as
 they obeyed4  ,and if the old order    
should be restored1 there would be but  
one order in the earth2 but one ,faith1 
one ,lord and one ,baptism4 ,the saints 
would sit down to one table from which  
no saint would be excluded2 they would  
join their hymns of undenominational    
ecstasy1 and1 if they did not see every 
subject exactly alike1 they would at    
least agree in their contemplation of   

essentials4 ,after all1 the important   
matter seemed to be1 to get safely into 
the church1 and to stay in it2 and if   
all entered in the same way1 the way the
 apostles had taught1 and then dwelt in 
harmony1 not as ,presbyterians and      
,baptists and ,episcopals and           
,methodists1 whose very names appeared  
to draw lines1 whether the lines were   
definitely understood or not--this ideal
 body would be simply disciples of      
,christ1 or ,christians1 as they had    
been eighteen hundred years ago4 ,then  
indeed would a shout of thanksgiving go 
up from the earth1 that the prayer of   
,jesus had been answered2 not only his  
apostles but all those who now believed 
on his name1 had become one2 one in     
thought and love and life2 one as he and
 the ,father were one1 eternal1         
indivisible4  ,whether or not the reader
 believes such a union possible1 or     
desirable1 it will surely call for no   
great task of the imagination upon his  
part1 to enter somewhat into the        

thrilling rapture this picture presented
 to the hearts of the early reformers4  
,one feels his heart leap with a        
sympathetic throb when men who had      
dreamed of such a return to the old     
paths1 but who had dreamed of it in     
solitude1 not knowing it had found a    
voice in the earth--suddenly heard it   
pronounced from the pulpit4 ,men who had
 brooded in seclusion over their        
,bibles1 finding there1 as it appeared  
to them1 sublime statements antagonistic
 to sectarianism1 were suddenly         
transfixed by hearing the words of old1 
,believe on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1   
and thou shalt be saved6 ,it seemed to  
them that the ,old ,gospel was once more
 sounding in the land4 ,on a visit to   
,missouri1 ,walter ,scott met an eminent
 preacher1 ,moses ,e4 ,lard4  ,you do   
not know me1 said ,lard1 as he threw his
 arm about the other2 but you are the   
man who first taught me the ,gospel4    
,how so6 the other inquired4  ,it was   
reading your book--',the ,gospel        

,restored1' was the answer4  ,that is   
how this movement appeared to those who 
came under its influence1--the ,gospel  
must be restored4 ,the preachers        
proclaimed and debated from the rostrum1
 and pulpit1 and on horseback4 ,the     
laymen talked about it on the street1   
and in the field1 ready at any moment to
 draw the ,bible from their pockets to  
show just what the ,old ,jerusalem      
,gospel had to say for itself4 ,the     
women discussed regeneration and baptism
 over their sewing and knitting4 ,the   
children taunted each other at school   
and at play1 and the swaggering bully   
might say to the despised ,campbellite1 
,we believe in a change of heart6 or    
,you believe water will save you6  ,such
 taunts1 however1 did not assail the    
young ,carrs1 for their parents belonged
 to no church1 and their grandparents   
and numerous relations were             
,presbyterians and ,methodists4         
,oliver's teacher1 ,l4 ,p4 ,streator1   
was a disciple of ,christ2 his life1 as 

well as that of ,walter ,scott1 were    
arguments1 in their way1 for the new    
religion2 but after all1 ,oliver had    
thought little of religion during his   
first years at the ,academy4 ,martin    
,streator1 his teacher's son1 persuaded 
him to attend the ,sunday-school at the 
,christian church2 he went once or      
twice1 and then tried the ,baptist      
,sunday-school to find out what they did
 over there4 ,the teacher of the        
,baptist class devoted his hour to an   
explanation of the ,holy ,ghost1 which  
proved so baffling to the young         
mathematician1 that for some time       
thereafter he discharged no religious   
duties4  ,across the street from ,carr's
 ,hotel1 was a blacksmith shop4 ,the    
smith was an ,englishman1 ,eneas ,myall4
 ,fifteen years before ,william ,carr   
drove from ,lewis ,county in the old    
barouche1 ,myall had come over from     
,england1 and had stood on dry dock with
 only twenty-five cents in his pocket4  
,he walked twelve miles to find work2   

needless to say1 he found it4 ,he earned
 the passage-money from ,england for his
 father1 two brothers1 and cousin4 ,all 
worked together2 the cousin was a       
wagon-maker1 and under the newly made   
wagon-wheels1 as they rested upon their 
trestles1 were the shavings that had    
curled up at the making4 ,in the cold   
dark mornings1 when young ,oliver came  
down stairs to make his fires1 the      
flames leaped up from these very        
shavings1 which he had carried over the 
evening before4 ,they liked him at the  
shop1 and ,eneas1 in particular1        
believed he read an expression in the   
thin face of the ambitious student1 that
 promised something better than a hotel 
life4  ,eneas was a ,christian2 #c;he   
and his two brothers and his cousin had 
all heard the ,gospel preached by ,r4   
,c4 ,ricketts1 as they had never heard  
it in the old country4 ,over there1 to  
escape the formalism of the ,church of  
,england1 they had listened to the      
,dissenters2 they had watched sinners   

hovering on the ,anxious-seat of the    
,presbyterians1 and the ,mourning-bench 
of the ,methodists4 ,such ante-rooms to 
,grace were held indispensable4 ,as the 
eminent ,congregationalist1 ,dr4 ,finney
 explained1 so nearly all believed3 ,the
 church has always felt it necessary to 
have something of this kind4 ,in the    
days of the apostles baptism answered   
this purpose4 ,the ,gospel was preached 
to the people and all who were willing  
to be on ,christ's side were called on  
to be baptized4 ,it held the precise    
place that the anxious seat does now1 as
 a public manifestation of their        
determination to be ,christians4  ,but  
,eneas and his relatives had been called
 upon by the preacher1 not to come to   
something which served the same purpose 
as an institution of old1 but to the    
institution itself4 ,repent and be      
baptized every one of you in the name of
 ,jesus ,christ for the remission of    
sins1 and you shall receive the gift of 
the ,holy ,spirit6 ,this was the trumpet

 call of ,r4 ,c4 ,ricketts4 ,to the     
simple blacksmith1 it sounded like a    
voice long silent1 issuing from the     
sacred past4 ,he had never heard it     
proclaimed before4 ,he and his obeyed   
the call4 ,having entered upon the      
,christian life1 this blacksmith felt an
 inexhaustible enthusiasm for the cause4
 ,he had been made so happy by his      
acceptance of what opponents called the 
new religion that he wanted all his     
friends to partake of his happiness4    
,when ,w4 ,t4 ,moore came to ,may's     
,lick to raise funds for ,bethany       
,college1 the first college of the      
disciples1--,eneas took his old rusty   
pen and wrote #ajj4  ,moore1 in         
surprise1 looked at the stalwart form in
 its rude garb1 and then at the homely  
scene in which it seemed in keeping4    
,this is more than you ought to give6 he
 exclaimed4 ,how do you make it8  ,oh1  
said the blacksmith1 casting the pen    
aside1 and lifting his hammer1 ,i beat  
it out of this iron6 ,it is such a good 

cause1 ,i'm sure ,i can give #ajj4jj4   
,that was when ,oliver was fifteen4 ,w4 
,t4 ,moore was holding a meeting at the 
church1 working up the college endowment
 during the day4 ,one evening1 when     
,oliver entered the shop1 as he did     
daily1 seeking his kindling1 ,ed ,myall 
looked up from his work1 and said1      
,ollie1 isn't it time for you to be a   
,christian8 ,he would have said more1   
but his voice failed him4 ,the boy1     
without a word1 turned and went away4   
,it was the first time anyone had ever  
spoken to him about being a ,christian4 
,he had dropped out of the ,sunday      
school2 he rarely attended church4  ,his
 sister ,minnie was the first of the    
family to become a ,christian4 ,she     
repented2 she confessed her faith2 she  
was baptized2 and then she became a     
missionary1 thus3 ,she met ,oliver in   
the hall1 as by accident--such matters  
come hard to the young and              
inexperienced--and said1 ,ol1 ,i want   
you to be a good boy6  ,that was all2   

but he knew what she meant4 ,the        
opportunity to go to church was not     
wanting1 for ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr were  
always ready to take the work in hand   
for that purpose4 ,they wanted the      
children to go to church1 though1 to be 
sure1 they would have preferred the     
churches of their fathers4 ,so on       
,sunday1 ,oliver went to church and     
heard ,w4 ,t4 ,moore preach the first   
sermon he had ever understood4 ,the same
 points were preached over and over1    
,what must ,i do to be saved8 ,and after
 that1 when ,oliver was driving         
passengers to and fro1 or hauling wheat 
to market1 he was thinking incessantly  
over what he had heard1 that question of
 old1--,what must ,i do to be saved8 and
 then of the answer1 as it had come from
 the lips of ,peter and ,silas and      
,paul4 ,and he made the resolution1     
,next ,sunday1 ,i will do what ,i think 
right6  ,he asked his father's          
permission to join the church4 ,if you  
know what you are doing1 said ,william  

,carr1 go ahead4  ,oliver thought he    
knew4 ,the next ,sunday he did up his   
morning's work1 then walked to the      
,christian ,church1 where he made his   
confession of faith4 ,it was a joyous   
occasion1 and few eyes were dry1 as the 
lad stood up to make known the new born 
desire of his heart4 ,there were no     
looks cast at him askance1 no chill of  
social cast4 ,all felt one in ,christ   
,jesus1 and there was nothing but love  
for the lad from ,lewis ,county4  ,and  
his mother who was by inheritance a     
,methodist1 said1 ,the ,campbellites    
have got ,ollie6 ,he was baptized2 of   
all his family1 only ,minnie was        
present4  ,one afternoon ,oliver1 now   
sixteen1 came home for the last time    
from ,may's ,lick ,academy4 ,he had     
finished the course4 ,he carried his    
report proudly4 ,seven was the highest  
mark according to the teacher's system4 
,oliver's card was sprinkled all over   
with #g's4 ,as he drew near the tavern1 
he saw his father in his chair1 which   

had been brought outside4  ,he examined 
the report of his son with laudable     
pride1 then said1 ,well1 ,ollie1 you    
will have to finish for yourself1 now4  
,i'm not able to send you to school any 
longer4  ,of course1 there was plenty of
 hard work4 ,there was the wheat for him
 to haul across the county to           
,maysville1 and the loads of coal to be 
brought home from the river2 and there  
were the passengers to be carried to and
 fro2 and1 always1 the home tasks4  ,but
 this life of crushed ambitions was not 
long to continue4 ,soon after ,oliver's 
admission into the church1 ,eneas       
,myall1 the blacksmith1 walked into     
,carr's ,hotel1 accompanied by a        
prominent member of the church4 ,oliver 
happened to be in the hall when they    
began speaking to his father4 ,he heard 
a few words1 and crept nearer the door1 
his heart leaping in wild tumult4  ,he  
heard the blacksmith's voice1 that voice
 which had often cheered him as he went 
about his daily tasks4 ,and now it was  

asking if ,william ,carr would consent  
to ,oliver's being sent to ,kentucky    
,university at ,harrodsburg2 saying that
 he and ,dr4 ,a4 ,h4 ,wall would pledge 
themselves to furnish the money4 ,is it 
a wonder that to ,oliver ,carr1 that    
voice sounded like sweetest music8      
,william expressed his sorrow at not    
being able to educate his children as he
 wished2 he appreciated the offer now   
made4 ,but1 he said1 earnestly1 don't   
undertake this1 unless you are sure you 
can go on with it2 ,i don't want you to 
give him up6  ,a few days later ,eneas  
,myall came with his hard-earned money1 
and placed it in ,oliver's hands1 asking
 him to take it with the love of its    
donors4 ,and so1 at the age of sixteen1 
,oliver ,carr went to the ,university at
 ,harrodsburg1 to study for the         
ministry4  ,so1 this is what we have    
found1 in our quest of a possible       
husband for ,mattie ,myers--this ,oliver
 ,carr1 who1 as it appears1 is far from 
being a rich young man4 ,will brother   

,joe be satisfied8 ,nay1 will he ever   
consent8 ,at any rate1 they must be     
brought together4 ,let us return to the 
overworked pupil of ,john ,augustus     
,williams1 she who parsed1 in class1 too
 much of that ,,ms4 of his ,life of     
,john ,smith for her health4 ,we shall  
find her still upon her sick-bed1       
hovering between life and death4   #b   
,see appendix4  #c ,see appendix4       
,,chapter ,,iv4  ,a ,,school ,,girl',s  
,,note ,,book4   ,of course she         
recovered1 else there need be no        
biography of ,mattie ,myers1 except to  
teach young girls not to study too      
hard--a lesson seldom needed4 ,but the  
life we are following is to teach a     
quite different lesson4 ,she emerges    
from the sickroom with a constitution   
shattered2 not altogether broken1 but   
much out of repair every way2 mentally1 
in particular2 for the mind has         
developed enormous energy in proportion 
as the body has wasted away2 and all the
 nerves that are controlled from the    

general office are sent tingling at the 
least noise--even at the tread of a     
great thought4  ,the girl of sixteen is 
bewildered with herself4 ,that grasp of 
the will which had held her to her      
tasks1 to the outraging of her physical 
self1 has suddenly slipped--it cannot be
 tightened up to the proper tension1 at 
least not now4 ,this inability to sleep 
that has come upon her1 is to continue  
throughout her life2 this nervous       
excitement of vital forces1 this        
disproportion of mind and matter1 this  
thinness of form1 this determination to 
carry self to the end marked out1 shown 
in the firm mouth--we are to find all   
these unchanged in after years4  ,in the
 meantime1 her resolution to carry on   
her education has not faltered4 ,she    
cannot go back to ,daughters'           
,college--,professor ,williams does not 
know how to bear lightly upon the mind1 
and the girl has not even yet learned to
 spare herself4 ,but there is a certain 
convent1 the ,st4 ,catherine de         

,sienna's--,joe will send her there for 
a year4 ,the very name is restful4 ,the 
course is such that a young girl may    
carry it with one hand4 ,mattie will    
attend a year2 that will graduate her   
from the ,st4 ,catherine de ,sienna's4  
,if1 by that time1 her strength has come
 back1 she may finish at ,harrodsburg4  
,the convent will be so quiet--no       
levees1 no marching to church in        
solid-green1 no receptions in the       
parlors--nothing but trees and birds and
 silent-footed sisters1 and cool gray   
walls1 and a little ,french1 a little   
ancient history1 and such portions of   
the ,old ,testament history as have not 
become ,protestantized4  ,joe and       
,mattie discuss these plans at the close
 of ,joe's school-day1 as they sit on   
his piazza1 his flute for the time      
silent4 ,if they ever considered her    
ability to go back to ,john ,augustus   
,williams instead of seeking the        
tutelage of the saint1 an event took    
place that rendered such a course       

impossible4 ,it was an event that grew  
out of other events1 all of which had   
been preparing for many years4  ,to     
young ,oliver ,carr1 far to the north in
 ,mason ,county1 the beginning had been 
announced by his old friend ,walter     
,scott4 ,it had come about in this way3 
,one evening the almost-raven locks and 
the keen but always kindly eyes1 of     
,walter ,scott appeared at ,carr's      
hotel1 which is for the nonce1 the post 
office4  ,dear1 he said to the youth    
who1 for the time1 is deputy post       
master1 have you anything for me this   
evening8  ,oliver1 feeling that pleasure
 he always experienced when this        
question could be affirmed by a paper or
 letter1 handed out the ,louisville     
,courier4 ,the old man opened it1 and   
caught sight of words in large black    
letters that stared from the top of the 
page4 ,at the door he read the line     
aloud3                      ,,firing    
,,on ,,fort ,,sumpter6  ,the reader     
burst into tears1 and sank down upon the

 sidewalk4 ,his friends hastened up1    
thinking he was ill1 but ,walter ,scott 
could only say1 as he pointed at the    
page1--,oh1 my country is ruined6 ,they 
carried him to his home1 to that bed    
from which he was never to rise4 ,that  
was in ,april1 #ahfa4 ,on the #bast he  
whispered his dying message to his      
friend ,l4 ,p4 ,streator1 ,oliver's     
teacher1--  ,it has been my privilege to
 develop the kingdom of ,god4 ,i have   
been greatly honored4 ,on the #bcrd1 he 
was no more1 for ,god took him4  ,the   
war broke in all its fury upon neutral  
,kentucky4 ,it brought the mountain     
guerrillas down on ,may's ,lick with all
 their cruelty1 all their wanton        
destruction4 ,woe to the goodly stores  
in ,william ,carr's larder1 the         
furniture of the hotel1 the splendid    
horses in the stables1 when they come   
shouting and cursing at his door6 ,john 
,augustus ,williams is obliged to close 
his ,daughters' ,college and save his   
learning for another day4 ,the young    

ladies have laid aside metaphysics and  
rhetoric to make clothes for the boys   
fighting in the ,carolinas4 ,for a time 
it seems not so important to classify   
the metonymies as to make peas or       
dandelion taste like coffee4  ,but      
gentle ,st4 ,catherine de ,sienna raises
 its voice in pious song1 and tolls its 
beads1 and murmurs in pensive recitivo  
,je suis1 tu es1 il est1 elle est--and  
hears not the echo of ,perryville       
cannon1 as one hears in ,harrodsburg2   
or1 if hearing1 puts it to the account  
of the flesh and the devil1 and chants  
,te deum laudamus4  ,mattie's year in   
the convent is of all things the one    
needful4 ,she rests and learns4 ,at the 
end of the year she knows what ,st4     
,catherine de ,sienna had to teach1 and 
her strength is no worse from the       
acquisition4 ,but as for any influence  
upon her mind or heart by this year's   
experience1 we seek in vain for a trace4
 ,it may be that the beliefs she took   
behind the convent walls were made      

firmer to resist soft influences2 or it 
may be that her faith was so impregnable
 at the beginning of this gentle        
eclipse1 that it had nothing to fear4   
,the girl of seventeen bade farewell to 
,st4 ,catherine's with the warm         
affection of the girl1 and the serene   
self-poise of the woman4 ,it left her   
just where it had found her1 except that
 she knew a little more about the light 
graces of learning1 and--the main thing1
 after all1--that she was now able to go
 on with serious study4 ,it is often the
 case1 when a ,protestant so young as   
,mattie1 graduates from the convent1    
that she carries through life a little  
cloistered chamber in her heart1 where  
thoughts slip in the quiet hour to count
 their beads1 and whisper ,ave ,maria4  
,the next year ,mattie returned to      
,daughters' ,college1 where she         
graduated with honors1 in #ahfe4 ,there 
is an old gray-mottled composition-book 
written through in different inks1 the  
prevailing color suggesting iron-rust1  

the pages showing the shadows of half a 
century1 and the oft-repeated contact of
 a school-girl's hand4 ,we find on the  
title page1 ,miss ,mattie ,forbes       
,myers1 written by her own hand--that   
was when she was thirteen4 ,later--for  
this book was used during her college   
days--we find ,mattie ,f4 ,myers--no use
 now1 for her to prefix the ,miss2 that 
is done by others4  ,this book is filled
 with notes taken at lectures1 with     
poems1 some original and some copied or 
memorized1 with essays1 with school     
notes2 and here alone1 save in a few    
essays on separate sheets1 are we given 
a glimpse into the girl's mind1 by the  
girl herself4 ,here we may find what she
 thought of life and death and          
immortality--but nothing of her daily   
life4  ,the book is interesting because 
of its omissions4 ,there are no         
straggling lines such as one naturally  
writes in one's school-days when it is  
raining1 for instance2 or when one feels
 dull or impatient for the closing hour4

 ,there are no pyramids of schoolmates' 
names1 no idle pictures that might be   
faces or geometrical figures1 no        
allusions to ,harrodsburg1 or           
,lancaster1 or ,stanford1 or any place  
or person more concrete than ,moses     
crossing the ,red ,sea1 or ,hannibal    
crossing the ,alps4 ,above all1 in      
whatever disquisition upon the          
,atonement or ,the ,johnsonian ,era1    
there is no flash of humor4 ,one cannot 
avoid the impression in turning over    
these #bji closely written pages that   
here was a girl who1 from year to       
year--that is1 from twelve to           
twenty1--was serious1 was intent upon a 
definite plan1 was adhering closely to a
 central theme1 unmindful of aught that 
detracts or turns the mind aside1 though
 that digression be but the pleasant    
recreation of a smile4  ,it is true that
 all these pages do not present solid   
reading matter4 ,there is poetry here   
which shows a deeper love of poetry than
 of a poetic gift4 ,one sees that this  

love of poetry was no superficial       
acquirement2 it was not that nice taste 
for forms that contents the modern      
reader of magazines with a four-line    
stanza about any subject that can be put
 into four lines4 ,mattie read ,mrs4    
,browning because she loved her4 ,of all
 books in ,english literature1 she seems
 to have cared most for ,aurora ,leigh4 
,we find her in after years advising her
 friends to read ,mrs4 ,browning1 if    
they would taste the purest literary    
joys4 ,a serious business1 indeed1 was  
life to that great-souled ,english poet 
with the slender hand up-propping the   
heavy head--this life so full of song   
and gaiety to most of us1 before we stop
 laughing--also it meant serious        
business to ,mattie ,myers4 ,and as     
,elizabeth ,barrett found in later years
 a great love upon which she could      
always rest her weary heart1 even so was
 ,mattie ,myers to find a love          
resourceful and deathless8 ,we shall    
see1 by-and-by4  ,the first writing in  

the book--written somewhere in her      
thirteenth year1 is this3 ,a forehead   
royal with the truth--,elizabeth        
,barrett ,browning4 ,then we find1 ,as  
stars differ from one another in glory1 
so shall it be in the resurrection morn4
 ,later comes1 ,heaven is fair1 earth   
pitiless2 why is life so dear8 ,and1 ,he
 who has most of heart has most of      
sword4 ,then1 ,oh life1 is all thy song1
 ,endure and die8 ,these are interesting
 as showing what sort of sentiments     
interested the little girl at the       
boarding-school4 ,they are all like     
these1 her written selections1 grave to 
solemnity4 ,her original poetry is like 
it3    ,in this narrow vale of life     
,amid its scoldings and its strife1     
,amid its darkness and its gloom1       
,loving children1 welcome1 come4  ,nor  
was this that seriousness which many an 
author confines to his writings1 living 
a life far different from one's tragic  
numbers4 ,mattie was not an author1 she 
had no desire to be one1 and what she   

wrote was not apart from her life1 but a
 part of it4  ,the style she developed  
was the oratorical4 ,her sentences were 
balanced1 and her thoughts enforced by  
repetition4 ,what she wrote after her   
graduation was1 in the main1 written to 
be delivered in public address4 ,her    
college theses represent the highest    
development of her style4 ,even as one  
reads them1 he feels that they should be
 proclaimed4 ,they are suited to the    
public platform4 ,if the girl who wrote 
these does not1 in time1 become a       
popular lecturer1 we shall be much      
mistaken6 ,moreover1 apart from the     
embellishment which she loved to give   
her sentences1 we find that whatever    
subject she undertakes1 she treats with 
a whole-souled enthusiasm1 as if it were
 a matter of immediate1 vital           
importance1 and as if she were an       
eyewitness of the event4 ,hear her3     
,but when ,aurora with her rosy fingers 
lifted the veil of night and robed the  
earth in sparkling gems1 the predominant

 trait of his character again swayed his
 being1 and again his solemn oath was   
violated4 ,infatuated man6 ,think you   
that because the stream now flows       
smoothly1 and the thunder of the        
cataract has transiently ceased1 that   
you are far removed from danger8        
,already you are within the rapids4 ,who
 is this man that is in such terrible   
danger8 ,none other than our old friend 
,pharaoh4 ,in such thrilling words is   
his doom presently presented1 that we   
feel that while he got no worse than he 
deserved1 still it was enough4 ,this was
 written at ,st4 ,catherine's4 ,she is  
just as intimate with1 just as keenly   
alive to1 the sorrows of ,spenser3      
,though the ashes of ,spenser repose at 
,westminister1 yet he still lives in the
 hearts of every lover of the beautiful 
and the good4 ,the casket has decayed1  
but the jewel is firmly set in the      
coronet of ,literature4 ,there it will  
shine in undimmed splendor and beauty   
until the ,empire of ,genius shall fall4

 ,even in our school-girl heart he has  
found a place1 and memory of his woes   
and his joys1 of his poverty and his    
unsearchable riches1 will be with us    
forever4  ,the same spirit of bringing  
heart and soul into the theme1 is shown 
in her treatment of her favorites of the
 ,elizabethan era1 the time of ,queen   
,anne1 or the ,fall of ,carthage4 ,one  
does not feel that these essays are     
pieces so much as they are fragments of 
a sincere and enthusiastic mind4 ,that  
which rouses her to greatest exaltation 
is the description of a soul            
encountering supreme difficulties2 and  
we find her standing by ,hannibal with a
 trumpet call to duty and heroism1 when 
all his own have deserted him4 ,here is 
her hero of history1 to none other does 
she so freely pour forth the unstinted  
admiration of her girl's heart4  ,two   
other qualities should be mentioned in  
this connection4 ,one is the            
intellectual force shown in these really
 remarkable productions1 the ability to 

take the accepted positions of critics  
and clothe them in new and pulsing      
words4 ,no need to ask for help in      
writing these compositions6 who indeed  
could have done so well8 ,in a few      
instances we find where the pencil of   
,john ,augustus ,williams has culled out
 superlative phrases1 or where he has   
inquired 7for instance1 after such a    
phrase as we weep for him7 if this is   
not rather strong8 ,but on the whole1 he
 leaves her articles unchanged1         
doubtless taking keen delight in the    
ability that has produced them4 ,a young
 girl who can write thus at fifteen and 
seventeen1 might do great things as an  
author2 but as we have seen1 her plans  
were formed for other fields4  ,the last
 quality of her writings which we have  
reserved1 is one that permeates         
everything she wrote4 ,no matter what   
the subject--whether the ,vail of       
,wyoming1 or the general title1         
,logic--religion comes in2 we do not say
 it creeps in2 it walks in with head    

erect4 ,it quite often overflows and    
submerges the point under consideration4
 ,one feels at times that the subject   
has been a means of getting at more     
vital matters4 ,all through the         
composition-book we find pieces of      
sermons1 and quotations of moral        
reflections1 and verses from the ,bible4
 ,here and there are penciled little    
prayers such as a school girl might make
 who has deep purposes4 ,there are pages
 of reflections on the ,holy ,spirit1   
side by side with ,french lessons4 ,the 
religious nature of man2 ,christ as     
,prophet2 ,christ as ,law-giver2 ,god   
and ,justice2 ,faith--these are         
discussed at length between sections of 
,botany notes and ,geology and ,civil   
,government classifications4 ,the last  
word of all is given1 not to a remark   
about some seatmate1 or teacher1 but to 
,john the ,baptist--what she thought of 
his life and purpose4  ,in this         
schoolbook1 closed so long ago1 there is
 a page almost filled with a discussion 

of ,lady ,macbeth2 then1 inverted lines1
 penciled as if to stow it away from    
conspicuous sight--and1 indeed1 against 
the background of iron-rusted ink1 it is
 hardly discernible--are these lines    
without a subject heading3 ,god grant   
that ,i may never find enjoyment in the 
foolish pleasures of the world2 but that
 my soul may soar far above its         
ephemeral joys unto the unsearchable    
riches of ,christ ,jesus my ,lord4      
,that was the prayer of her young days2 
it explains what she has written--the   
pages we have been examining4 ,by the   
light of this prayer1 we may follow her 
from the schoolroom to her active       
service in the outer world4 ,we see her 
attentive upon the worship of ,god2 not 
only going1 but leading2 not only       
listening1 but ministering4 ,she finds  
her work in the songs of the church4 ,at
 ,mount ,carmel lives her married       
sister1 ,mrs4 ,kate ,o',bannon1 a       
devoted member of the ,church of        
,christ4 ,during her latter summer      

vacations1 ,mattie stays with her2 at   
church1 she leads the singing4  ,in the 
early mornings1 ,mattie delighted in her
 walk along the ridge-road1 from which  
the woods could be heard speaking in the
 myriad voices of bird-happiness4 ,and  
she loved the little church1 fresh from 
her school-duties1 loved each greeting  
at the sunny door1 and down the quiet   
aisles1 coming as voices from long      
voyages apart4 ,she led the singing with
 all her heart1 and the congregation    
sang with all theirs2 and when a        
protracted meeting was to be held1 there
 was pleasurable excitement among the   
singers1 over what to sing1 and how to  
sing it4  ,one day1 excitement is rife  
among church-members2 one hears that a  
strange preacher is coming to hold a    
meeting--a young man ,mattie has never  
seen4 ,who can it be8 ,surely not the   
boy from ,may's ,lick8 ,surely not the  
,oliver ,carr who was startled one      
evening with an armful of shavings1     
poised for bearing home1 at hearing the 

wagon-maker say--,ollie1 isn't it time  
for you to be a ,christian8  ,certainly1
 it would be strange if ,oliver ,carr   
should come to preach in the church     
where ,mattie ,myers leads the singing6 
,the hard-earned money of ,eneas ,myall 
and his friend would not have been spent
 in vain1 should such be the case6 ,let 
us return to ,may's ,lick at the time of
 ,oliver's starting to college1 and find
 how1 by any means1 we can bring him to 
,mount ,carmel to hold this very        
meeting1 for which ,miss ,mattie is     
making ready4     ,,chapter ,v4  ,a     
,,university ,,student4   ,that was a   
wonderful day for the boy ,oliver when1 
with the farewells of his parents1      
brothers and sisters1 friends and       
benefactors1 ringing in his ears1 he    
started to college4 ,as the stage coach 
rushed across the corner of ,fleming    
,county1 and plunged through ,nicholas  
and wound its way among the bluegrass   
pasture lands of ,bourbon1 he felt that 
he was seeing the world1 at last2 and   

not only seeing the world1 but had the  
means to take an honored place in it2   
for to this youth of sixteen1 there     
seemed no honor greater than that of    
preaching the ,gospel4  ,it was so plain
 to him1 this plea of the disciples of  
,christ2 it appeared so evidently the   
truth of the whole matter2 he was       
anxious to tell others about it1        
imagining in his inexperienced zeal1    
that others would be as glad to hear as 
he had been4 ,but before he could       
preach1 the collegiate fortresses of    
wisdom must be stormed and captured4    
,head of his class in mathematics at the
 academy--that is the best we can say   
for him now1 and souls are not won from 
sin and error by the demonstrations of  
,euclid4  ,here we are in ,fayette      
,county1 and the train stops at         
,lexington4 ,here ,oliver pauses1 but   
does not stop1 for the ,university is   
wanting several years of reaching this  
point4 ,we must hold on our course--down
 through ,jessamine ,county to ,mercer4 

,and now indeed1 our blood thrills as if
 needles were pricking our veins1 for we
 are near our destination1--near        
,harrodsburg the goal of our boyhood's  
ambition4  ,there are other boys in the 
stage coach going to the ,university1   
and we talk about the history of that   
institution1 and of its professors1 and 
of what we will do when we stop at the  
station1 and where we will go1--all     
strangers as we are1 and all young1 in  
this year1 #ahfa4  ,some one tells how  
,bacon ,college was established by the  
disciples of ,christ in ,georgetown     
twenty-five years ago1 and how its first
 president was ,walter ,scott--a name   
sufficient to bring up ,may's ,lick     
before ,oliver's mind1 with a far-away  
suggestion of homesickness4  ,and       
another tells 7or should tell for the   
refreshing of the reader's memory7 of   
ten years of college life under ,james  
,shannon1 until ,bacon ,college went to 
sleep1 or underwent suspended animation1
 and had to be brought to ,harrodsburg  

by ,j4 ,b4 ,bowman1 to try what a new   
climate and a new name could do for it4 
,so ,bacon ,college became ,kentucky    
,university in #aheh--;just three years 
ago4  ,then another--for there were four
 of these#d boys1 and being boys they   
talked a great deal1 and1 as we see1    
very much to our purpose--congratulates 
all upon the fortunate circumstances    
that have provided the ,university with 
the first teachers of the land--a       
fortunate circumstance for ,harrodsburg1
 he means2 of course a fortunate        
circumstance for anybody has a curious  
way of being unfortunate so far as      
somebody else is concerned4  ,bethany   
,college had been reduced to ashes2 and 
although new walls were starting up from
 the gray ruins1 such men of learning   
and piety as ,bethany ,college boasted  
could not sit idly by1 while brick was  
laid upon brick2 they1 too1 might be    
building1 and1 by happy fortune1        
something more durable than stone4 ,so  
,robert ,milligan leaves his chair of   

mathematics at ,bethany1 to assume the  
presidency of our reawakened or newborn 
institution--old ,bacon ,college1 or new
 ,kentucky ,university--one hardly knows
 if the author was ,bacon or            
,shakespeare6--and ,dr4 ,robt4          
,richardson entrusts his chair of       
,physical ,science at ,bethany to ,dr4  
,h4 ,christopher1 and becomes           
vice-president at ,harrodsburg4 ,so now 
we know--by listening to the chatter of 
these prospective students--how it came 
about that ,mattie ,myers was treated to
 the preaching of these giants4 ,she is 
over yonder at ,daughters' ,college even
 now a girl of fourteen4 ,even then1 she
 says1 she had given her life to serious
 study and preparation for her chosen   
life-work4  ,and what of ,bethany       
,college8 ,how can it survive the loss  
of those illustrious men8 ,perhaps with 
its ,alexander ,campbell for president1 
it can weather the gale6  ,but certainly
 those of us who are ,kentuckians and   
who have been attending the ,college in 

,virginia1 because we had none of our   
own1 now feel unbounded elation over our
 newly-captured prize6 ,for in those    
days1 says ,s4 ,w4 ,crutcher1 who was   
just such a student1 ,we had somehow    
gotten into the habit of spelling       
,kentucky with a big ',k' and the       
,united ,states in small letters4  ,it  
was ,crutcher who1 then in ,virginia1   
went with the other ,kentuckians to     
,hybernia to congratulate ,professor    
,milligan on being chosen president of  
,kentucky ,university4 ,the             
,professor--who had already grown       
cautious about standing in              
draughts--expressed his resolution to   
spend the remainder of his life in the  
service of the ,university2 and ,mrs4   
,milligan1 with thoughts for the present
 life1 led the young men into the       
dining-room4 ,belle is in short dresses2
 for1 as we have said1 this was three   
years ago2 and it is only last year that
 ,robt4 ,graham left ,harrodsburg for   
,arkansas4  ,we were speaking of ,s4 ,w4

 ,crutcher2 and by a queer coincidence1 
there he is in the middle of the street 
as the stage coach brings ,oliver ,carr 
to ,harrodsburg4 ,we are here at last4  
,crutcher takes ,oliver and his three   
traveling-companions to a boarding-house
 which proves an undesirable place1 and 
,president ,milligan takes ,oliver into 
his own home2 there he finds ,belle's   
dress three years nearer the floor than 
when ,sam ,crutcher told her farewell in
 ,bethany2 and ,oliver is1 of course1   
very much afraid of her2 for was there  
ever a boy more awkward or more         
conscious of his tallness and thinness1 
than this youth from ,lewis and ,mason  
,county8  ,perhaps not4 ,but he is much 
at ease with the president1 himself1 for
 the president is a man--and ,oliver has
 dealt thus far principally with        
men--and not only so1 but with a prince 
of men4 ,if ,eneas ,myall1 the          
blacksmith1 could have had the choosing 
of ,oliver's companions1 knowing in his 
practical ,english head that his protege

 was in the danger-zone of youth1 when  
companionship counts most--he could have
 selected with no greater care than     
,providence seemed to have done4  ,first
 of all1 there was the ,milligan        
household with its atmosphere as unlike 
that of the village hotel1 as if it had 
been of another world4 ,then there was  
the man with whom ,oliver used to walk  
home from school1 with whom he loved to 
stroll in the twilight--the ,professor  
of ,english1 who examined the youth's   
fitness for his junior year by having   
him analyze and parse a hymn4 ,between  
this man and boy grew a liking that was 
soon ardent love4 ,my boy--that is what 
,l4 ,l4 ,pinkerton called ,oliver4 ,and 
,oliver1 as he walked with his favorite 
teacher1 and heard him quote            
poetry--poetry in the balmy evenings of 
autumn1 poetry in the crisp winter      
afternoon1 poetry wherever ,pinkerton   
was1 whether that of others1 or that of 
his own joyous temperament--here was    
another formative influence for the boy 

from the froglands4  ,when we1 of       
another day1 look back upon that time1  
and watch this sweet association1 it is 
hard to understand the bitterness--we   
must not say hatred--that used to be    
roused at the mention of the ,professor 
of ,english4 ,let us take a closer look 
at this man from ,baltimore ,county1    
,maryland2 a brief look1 necessarily1   
but one which will seek to envelope his 
main attributes4 ,in so doing1 we have  
not forgotten that our central aim is to
 present the life of ,mattie ,myers over
 yonder in ,daughters' ,college--where  
she has scarcely heard of ,oliver ,carr1
 though she knows ,pinkerton by sight4  
,to begin at the beginning of ,l4 ,l4   
,pinkerton's life--which was in his     
eighteenth year--we find him building a 
post-and-rail fence in ,west ,virginia  
not far from ,bethany2 black locust     
posts1 black walnut rails1 he remembers1
 all taken from the stump1 and fence    
set1 for twenty-five cents per panel of 
eight feet4 ,not that the quality of    

wood or price of wages matters--at least
 now2 what does matter is that one      
morning1 before going to work1 he found 
a paper on the table1 edited by         
,alexander ,campbell4 ,the ,millennial  
,harbinger was its name4 ,lewis picked  
up the paper casually1 and was soon     
reading with strange intentness--reading
 and re-reading4 ,strange reading-matter
 to absorb the attention of a           
fence-builder of eighteen--it was all   
about ,truth6 ,presently he went to     
,bethany to hear more about it1 and at  
the close of a sermon by ,a4 ,campbell1 
was baptized--he rode home that night   
four miles in dripping garments4 ,it was
 so wonderful to him1 this plea of the  
disciples of ,christ--one name for all  
,christendom1 one rule of faith and     
practice1 and that rule the ,bible      
alone--he could not but believe that it 
would be eagerly accepted by a          
sect-divided world6 ,he began preaching4
  ,from ,lexington he went to ,midway1  
where he established the ,orphan ,school

 of the ,christian church4 ,for sixteen 
years he labored in raising funds1 and  
in teaching1 for this exponent of       
practical ,christianity4 ,the same      
enthusiasm which had marked his         
acceptance of the reformed religion     
carried him over innumerable obstacles1 
whether of miserliness1 poverty1 or cold
 discouragement4 ,now the ,midway       
,orphan ,school was firmly established1 
and the year before ,oliver came to the 
,university1 ,pinkerton accepted the    
,english professorship4  ,but1          
unfortunately for his peace of mind1    
however fortunate for truth in the      
abstract and concrete1 poetry was not   
the only thing that ,l4 ,l4 ,pinkerton  
talked1 outside of school hours4 ,when  
we seek to pierce the clouds of         
misunderstanding and accusation that    
darken the atmosphere of those days1 the
 charges of heresy1 and the retorts of  
sectarianism1 above all1 the trumpet    
call that one or the other was not      
sound1--which opprobrious epithet1      

indeed1 sounds above all the other      
jarring cries1--we cannot believe that  
this resolution to down ,pinkerton came 
from the sole desire to exalt the       
,christ4 ,no doubt his opposers believed
 such to be the case1 but they were     
mistaken4 ,it was all the war1 the      
spirit of the times4 ,though the heavens
 fall1 ,pinkerton must proclaim his     
conviction that slavery was of the      
devil1 must lecture about it1 must do   
everything that lay in his power to     
convince others1 must declare his       
satisfaction when ,lincoln's            
,proclamation--that one proclamation    
that calls for no explanatory data to   
remind one what proclamation--outraged  
those who did not believe slavery to be 
of the devil2 far otherwise1 indeed4    
,for the war has burst upon us1 now in  
all its fury1 and though we1 as a state1
 are neutral1 everybody knows what that 
means1 and suspects his neighbor        
accordingly4 ,in ,midway1 ,pinkerton in 
building up the church1 established and 

nurtured a church for the black         
folk--preached for it until out of      
,african darkness was evolved a light to
 shine for itself4 ,he believed these   
slaves had souls1 and somehow1 he looked
 upon his labors for their salvation as 
a part of the practical good-doing that 
flowered in the ,orphan ,school4 ,if he 
could only believe these things to      
himself1 and not say anything6 ,but in  
that case1 he would not have been       
,pinkerton4 ,and so1 after the year     
#ahfb--the year in which ,oliver ,carr  
preached his first sermon--no           
church-door was opened that ,l4 ,l4     
,pinkerton might preach therein--never  
again was he to be thought sound enough4
  ,oliver heard much of soundness in    
those days1 just as we do now4 ,but     
happily for his peace of mind1 he was   
not disturbed by the continuous jarring 
and clashing of orthodox and heretical  
opinions4 ,he was too busy--too busy1   
almost to eat2 there is no recreation   
for him save as he trudges to and fro   

between school and lodgings1 with1 or   
without1 the poetical friend4 ,for he is
 most irregular in his classes2         
mathematics--fine2 ,latin and           
,greek--nothing6--,dead1 his father had 
objected4 ,dead indeed1 and buried so   
deep1 that the boy must dig hard and    
late1 to unearth the skeletons4 ,the    
result of which exhausting excavation we
 hear announced in the language of ,dr4 
,richardson3 ,if you don't improve in   
health ,i do not see how you can        
continue your studies-- ,and1 a little  
later3 ,you had better go home6  ,dark  
days--a weary struggle for health--a    
conviction that this is consumption--a  
last futile fight for victory--back home
 goes the broken invalid1 just as       
,mattie ,myers had been forced to quit  
the field4  ,but there is a difference1 
since ,oliver is obliged to stop in the 
midst of everything--and since he can   
ill afford a rest4 ,he has had his      
chance and it seems all in vain4 ,for   
three months he stays with his sister   

drinking mineral-water1 filled with     
torturing regrets and inextinguishable  
hope4 ,his sister--it is ,mary--has     
married2 we are to hear of her again4   
,three months--and he realizes that if  
he goes back1 it will mean as severe a  
regime as before4 ,the ground is hardly 
broken above those dead languages1 and  
he has not the strength he had thought  
he possessed4 ,however1 if we could1    
later on1 take a peep at the young men  
about the grounds1 we would find ,oliver
 ,carr holding his own with ,surber1    
,keith and ,mountjoy and ,albert ,myles4
 ,for six years we find him studying--as
 hard as anybody1 in his opinion2 but   
not again is ill-health to drive him    
home1 though always hovering at his     
elbow4 ,let us take glimpses1 here and  
there1 at these years1 with the happy   
privilege of the reader1 of attending   
the school of his hero without being    
compelled to study his hero's lessons4  
,at the close of his full year he goes  
back to ,may's ,lick4 ,to rest8 ,yes1 if

 to do what lies closest to the heart is
 rest4 ,he borrows a horse1 gets his    
saddlebags1 arms himself with ,bible and
 hymn-book1 and starts out for ,carter  
county where ,henry ,pangburn and       
,thomas ,munnell have started a meeting4
 ,he informs the girl who keeps the     
tollgate that he is a preacher2 no doubt
 in this boy's mind as to what he is6   
,he loses his way in the mountain       
trails--,babe will go to show him the   
school-house1 if he will catch her old  
white horse with burrs in its tail2     
,babe is a young lady of two hundred    
pounds--what matter her other name8 ,on 
they go1 in and out among the           
hills--,babe's girth breaks and ,oliver 
gives up his horse to her4  ,hello      
,babe6 thus the father of ,frank ,kibbey
 from his doorway1 who's that you have  
with you8  ,oh1 a little rebel ,i picked
 up on the way6--a laughing matter to   
,babe1 but not to ,oliver1 for he sees  
her drawn aside1 and hears the whispered
 demand1 ,is he a rebel8--and wonders if

 he will be hung4  ,but they are all    
rebels together4 ,thomas ,munnell says  
,ollie1 you must preach tonight6 ,and   
,oliver knows off-hand what he will     
preach1 because he has only one sermon6 
,so the benches are brought into the    
home of ,bro4 ,kibbey--for in the       
morning the preaching had been in the   
woods1--and ,oliver stood in a corner1  
the preacher's point of vantage in those
 days1 and preached4 ,and some old women
 bragged on me1 he said afterward4      
,these fledgling students--,kibbey and  
,carr--sent an appointment to preach in 
the mountains4 ,as they rode along1     
talking about their faith1--for that is 
what these boys loved to talk           
about--they saw a beautiful pool        
sparkling among lordly oaks1 and they   
said1 ,here is where we will baptize6   
,why not8 ,not a word had been preached1
 nor had they ever looked upon the faces
 of their prospective auditors2 but did 
they not have the truth8 ,so they       
preached to the mountaineers2 and       

presently came back to the pool among   
the oaks1 where they baptized four young
 men and four young women4  ,another    
picture1 brief1 almost brusque in its   
bold coloring3 the young man is called  
into the office of the ,professor of    
,mathematics1 ,henry ,h4 ,white4 ,the   
teacher abruptly extends his hand1 ,this
 is for you2 take it4  ,it is fifty     
dollars4 ,oliver1 the tears springing to
 his eyes1 would falter his thanks4     
,that will do sir6 says the ,professor  
with mathematical dryness4 ,that will do
 sir6 you're dismissed1--so sharply1 so 
conclusively1 that nothing is to be done
 but go4 ,there are two such scenes1    
precisely alike2 fifty dollars each     
time1 and1 ,that will do sir6 as an end 
to the incident4  ,never were such      
kindnesses more gratefully received1 or 
more sorely needed4 ,for men have come  
down from the mountains1 seizing upon   
the property of ,southern sympathizers1 
and none too particular about your      
sympathies1 if they can get away with   

horses and money4 ,william ,carr sees   
his hard-earned savings disappear in a  
night4 ,the horses from his stables are 
spirited away2 his hotel is looted2 nor 
is there wanting the suspicion that some
 of his neighbors have pointed out the  
spoils to the enemy4 ,to his sudden     
necessity is added the bitterness       
against injustice and ingratitude4      
,farther into the night his wife must   
sew1 earlier in the morning they must   
rise2 for though one son is away at     
college1 and one daughter is married1   
there is little left to support the     
other five children4 ,so here at ,may's 
,lick is a battle for daily bread1 while
 ,oliver1 at ,harrodsburg1 battles for  
daily ,latin and ,greek4  ,nor is this  
time of stress without its element of   
heroism4 ,one might pause in the        
narrative to show the young ,university 
student in danger of his life1 on the   
occasion of one of his home-comings4 ,a 
drunken soldier1 having robbed ,william 
,carr of his horse1 is about to shoot   

the hotel-keeper because he is a        
,southerner4 ,oliver leaps between1     
fastens his gaze upon the infuriated    
face1 holds out his defenceless arms1   
and saves his father's life4  ,this is  
,oliver's experience of the war1 this   
crushing blow upon his parents2 this1   
and the booming of cannon at            
,perryville1 and the long line of       
stragglers coming back from a beaten    
field2 and then the wounded and the     
dead4 ,harrodsburg is taxed to the      
utmost in giving shelter to the fallen  
heroes4 ,daughters' ,college from which1
 as we have seen1 the young ladies have 
been banished1 is opened up as a        
hospital4  ,l4 ,l4 ,pinkerton is no     
longer teaching2 he has resigned to     
become surgeon in the ,eleventh         
,kentucky ,cavalry2 just as he marched  
to the defense of orphan girls and      
negroes groping in spiritual darkness1  
so now he sallies forth for his country2
 leading the soldiers in prayer every   
evening1 dressing the wounds of the blue

 or gray1 and singing ,northern battle  
hymns4 ,and just as he always worked too
 hard for ,midway ,orphan ,school1 or   
for the disciples' plea1 or whatever he 
worked at--never resting till failing   
resources made him rest1--so now1 he    
toils at regimental prayer-meeting and  
midnight diagnoses and presently finds  
himself bedfast4 ,too feeble to stand1  
he lies praying that the ,south may be  
conquered2 and1 so praying1 he is       
carried to the home of an old friend1 a 
,captain ,carr1 who is a ,southerner to 
the core4  ,for weeks the friend of     
,lincoln lies at the point of death1    
cared for with all tenderness by the    
friend of ,jefferson ,davis4 ,then ,j4  
,b4 ,bowman1 he who turned ,bacon       
,college into ,kentucky ,university1    
came up from ,harrodsburg to            
,louisville2 here the ,professor of     
,english lay1 and1 taking him in his    
strong arms1 ,bowman carried him out to 
the carriage and rode away with him4    
,so1 we have him back at ,harrodsburg at

 last1 where he may walk with ,oliver   
again1 and quote poetry4 ,of course he  
tells ,oliver about his kind treatment  
in the home of ,captain ,carr1 and      
speaks of the tender and faithful       
ministrations of ,southern nurses4 ,and 
then1 quickly1 lest he be misunderstood1
 he asserts his unalterable faith in the
 justice of the ,union cause2 he will   
have no doubts as to where he stands4   
,i could scatter flowers over the graves
 of the ,confederate dead1 he says1 and 
even bedew them with my tears2 but ,i   
must still say1 if forced to it1 ',these
 poor1 brave young men fell in an       
unrighteous war against a beneficent    
government6' ,he must still say it1     
later on1 to the destruction of his     
peace of mind2 to the dissolution of    
many a friendly tie2 must still say it1 
if forced to it2 and must say it1       
whether forced or not1 such being the   
impetuosity of his character1 which     
consumes prudence and policy in one     
blaze of enthusiasm4  ,in the meantime1 

,oliver is at war in his own way4 ,that 
the ,south should prove its right to    
self-government appeared to him         
self-evident1 but it did not rouse his  
fighting blood4 ,souls to be saved from 
sin and error--that is his ever-pressing
 consideration4 ,that all religious     
bodies should take the name of          
,christian1 and worship according to the
 ,scriptures--could anything be simpler8
 ,that the six or seven denominations in
 small tows1 instead of utilizing half  
their vitality in keeping themselves    
going1 should all combine in one        
glorious purpose to exalt the           
,christ--could anything be more like    
,heaven on ,earth8 ,oliver thought thus4
 ,he believed it might come to pass2 and
 he was eager to do his part in bringing
 it about4 ,so every summer he left the 
,university halls to carry his message  
into the hills and valleys of ,kentucky2
 and such was his youthful ardor1 his   
enthusiastic conviction of success1 that
 people for a time stopped talking about

 ,john ,morgan and friends in ,canada1  
and went to hear the boy from the       
village tavern4  ,the time came when he 
resolved to carry the war into his own  
country4 ,so he packed his saddlebags   
and rode into the land of his youth4    
,there was no building of the disciples 
of ,christ1 but ,oliver was offered the 
,methodist meeting house4  ,when it was 
noised abroad that ,oliver ,carr was    
going to preach1 hearts were stirred and
 the farmers1 many miles away1 began    
catching up their horses to take the    
family to meeting4 ,men who had not been
 to church for years expressed          
themselves to this effect3 ,ol going to 
preach8 ,yes1 ,i'll go to hear him4     
,the meeting began ,thursday night2 on  
,saturday he baptized fourteen4 ,sunday 
morning the church building was locked2 
an agitated congregation hovered in the 
yard4 ,oliver has opened the doors of   
the church6 complained his aunt--meaning
 the spiritual church2 she had taken    
care that the church of pine boards     

should be more closely guarded4 ,across 
the street from the inhospitable meeting
 house stood the school house4 ,the     
audience moved thither4 ,the women went 
within2 the men remained outside4       
,oliver stood in the door1 and preached 
on ,christian ,union4  ,mrs4 ,o',bannon 
was there1 she and her school-girl      
sister1 ,mattie ,myers4 ,and ,mattie led
 the singing1 and listened to the young 
,university student with unqualified    
approval4 ,in after days she was to hear
 him preach many a sermon1 and in many  
lands2 ,but that was the best sermon he 
ever preached6 she declared4 ,for they  
were both so young1 then1 and both so   
fired with zeal for the same cause which
 to them seemed the supreme cause of    
earth and heaven4 ,and they were both so
 confident that this cause must         
triumph--perhaps in their own lifetime6 
,oliver went to ,orangeburg to preach in
 another ,methodist church1 and people  
came from ,may's ,lick to hear the boy1 
his father among the number4 ,very      

seldom1 if ever1 had ,oliver seen       
,william ,carr at church before2 here he
 baptized fourteen--but alas6 his father
 was not one of them4 ,then ten days at 
,sardis1 and forty baptized--but we need
 not follow the youth from point to     
point2 it was everywhere the same       
indestructible faith1 and many converts1
 and the beginnings of church life4     
,daniel ,carr1 ,oliver's grandfather1   
sent for him to come up to ,lewis county
 and preach in his home4 ,daniel was a  
prominent class-leader of the ,methodist
 church1 #gf years old4 ,oliver         
responded gladly1 entered the county of 
his birth1 where his uncles and aunts   
all lived1 faithful ,methodists4 ,his   
grandfather brought benches and chairs  
into his house1 and called in neighbors 
and kinsfolk4 ,oliver saw before him the
 boys and girls with whom he had gone to
 school in the country before his       
father's removal to ,may's ,lick4 ,here 
were ,old-,school ,baptists and         
,presbyterians1 come to hear what the   

,campbellite had to tell them4 ,but they
 did not come in hostility2 far from    
that4 ,it was with wonder1 rather1 that 
they looked upon this young man and     
thought of his past--the hard work on   
the farm1 the harder work in his        
father's hotel4 ,they knew how he had   
been obliged to leave the ,university on
 account of ill-health1 and how1 since  
then1 he had taxed his strength to the  
utmost in evangelistic campaigns among  
the hills4 ,and now he had come to them1
 his old neighbors1 to tell them about  
,christ6  ,his grandfather knelt down to
 open the meeting with prayer1 but      
suddenly the wonder and the joy of it   
came upon him1 and they heard nothing   
but his sobs4 ,when he was able to utter
 words1 they burst from a heart that    
throbbed with heavenly thanksgiving4    
,then ,oliver rose4 ,at last1 at last6  
the privilege was his to speak to these 
dear people1 words of eternal life4 ,as 
he looked into their kindly faces1 he   
too1 was overcome by emotion4 ,minute   

after minute passed by1 and he could but
 weep1 while the faces of his audience1 
bathed in tears1 told him that the      
yearning of his heart was understood4   
,it seems wonderful when a celebrated   
man rises to address an audience1 and1  
for ten minutes1 stands dumb before     
tireless applause4 ,but what shall we   
say of this boy who stands ten minutes  
unable to speak for tears of joy1 while 
his friends wait1 unable to hear for    
weeping8  ,this we must say2 that we    
have found here a youth who has given   
himself with all his soul to an idea2 an
 idea that grips at the roots of        
emotions and desires and life itself4   
,will not he who weeps with joy at the  
opportunity to deliver his message1 also
 fight for it8 ,but though fighting1    
will not his valor be tempered with the 
tenderness of tears8   #d ,these boys1  
,garrett ,s4 ,wall 7now ,judge ,wall1 of
 ,maysville1 ,ky471 ,jacob ,riley1      
,anthony ,latham and ,o4 ,a4 ,carr1 all 
from ,may's ,lick1 had lively discussion

 on the way4 ,which church is right8 was
 the awkward way the talk went on3      
,garrett explained ,jacob's ,theological
 puzzles3 ,oliver presented the points  
in that first sermon he ever heard that 
he understood1 and to him the ,scripture
 statements were plain3 ,anthony1 true  
son of ,calvin1 dwelt on the decrees4   
,these boys were going to be taught1 and
 ,anthony seemed willing that the       
,spirit should guide him into all truth 
provided it did not make a ,campbellite 
of him2 for he knew that was wrong      
religion4 ,the count stood--three       
against one1 and in boy fashion it was  
claimed that if what is to be will be   
,anthony ought to be satisfied4 ,o4 ,a4 
,c4     ,,chapter ,,vi4  ,,love ,,and   
,,sacrifice4   ,so they have met at     
last1 the preacher and the singer4 ,they
 might have finished their education    
there at ,harrodsburg1 ,oliver ,carr at 
the ,university and ,mattie ,myers at   
,daughters' ,college--if the meeting had
 not brought them together--who knows6  

,but1 being brought together in that    
way1 and being the grave and purposeful 
characters we have found them to be1 it 
is easy enough to comprehend the        
friendship that came into being2 a      
friendship sanctified1 as it were1 by   
the sound of hymn and the fervor of     
prayer4  ,after the services we find    
,oliver going home with ,mrs4           
,o',bannon1 in whose parlor he meets the
 school-girl sister4 ,serious enough is 
their talk--you might have thought them 
staid ,christians of middle life6 ,she  
finds him awkward and embarrassed1      
except when the talk runs religiously4  
,he finds her1 to his thinking1 highly  
educated1 and feels due awe for her     
superior advantages4 ,behold him1 now1  
driving up with a spring-wagon to take  
,mattie and her friends on an excursion 
to the mineral springs--,a,esculapia1 it
 is called--certainly an appropriate    
spot for these two health-needing       
students6 ,drink of that mineral-water  
as deeply as you may and let us hope    

,old ,a,esculapius himself will infuse  
strength into the sparkling drops6      
,after this pleasant companionship1     
,oliver and ,mattie were never again to 
be strangers4 ,now he knows one girl at 
,daughters' ,college who leads singing  
in the church--and she knows one young  
man at the ,university whose very soul  
is wrapped up in the things nearest her 
own heart4 ,he comes to the college to  
see her2 and ,john ,augustus ,williams  
sits with them in the parlor to complete
 the triangle1--very properly2 are not  
triangles the least-sided figures known 
in the halls of learning8 ,and when     
,president ,milligan gives a levee1 who 
comes for ,mattie to escort her thither8
 ,ask if you choose2 ,i shall not       
answer6  ,we have seen how ,kentucky    
,university emerged from ,bacon         
,college1 but we have not witnessed the 
closing scene of the transformation4    
,out of ,georgetown came ,bacon ,college
 to ,harrodsburg2 and out of ,danville  
came ,transylvania ,seminary to         

,lexington2 here the ,seminary found    
,kentucky ,academy1 and these two were  
fused into ,transylvania ,university4   
,for sixty-six years ,transylvania      
,university flourished and then         
declined4 ,then fire destroyed the      
college building at ,harrodsburg1 and   
,milligan came to ,lexington1 and       
,kentucky ,university was amalgamated   
with old ,transylvania1 and these two   
were one4 ,which takes ,oliver away from
 ,harrodsburg1 and that means letters2  
letters between him and ,mattie ,myers4 
,it was in #ahfe that ,kentucky         
,university gave its last exercises in  
,harrodsburg4 ,the ,franklin ,literary  
and ,philosophical ,society gave its    
exhibit1 ,june #bast4 ,from his speeches
 written out and now among the relics it
 appears that ,oliver was usually chosen
 to represent the ,franklins4 ,one      
subject discussed was1 ,should we in the
 administration of law1 be influenced by
 ,justice alone8 ,j4 ,t4 ,spillman of   
,harrodsburg affirms2 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr of  

,may's ,lick denies4 ,and the speech    
that ,o4 ,a4 ,carr delivers is sent on  
eight pages1 the words liberally        
italicised1 to ,miss ,mattie4 ,i do this
 to gratify my friend1 he adds at the   
end of the poetry that closes the       
debate1 and ,i hope that she will not   
forget her promise--,i will expect those
 notes on ,president ,williams' lecture 
soon4 ,thus begins the correspondence3 a
 debate from him1 lecture notes from    
her4  ,mattie ,myers is only eighteen1  
now1 and she speaks with all that       
age-wisdom one finds in the sober-minded
 young3 ,i have been living over all the
 delights of the past1 she writes to a  
friend1 and when the bright dream passed
 away before the storm actualities of   
the present1 my heart has wept that the 
golden hours of childhood shall never1  
never return4 ,true1 my childhood was   
not all joyous2 yet there is a luxury in
 remembering even the grief that tore my
 young heart4 ,many changes have taken  
place since then4 ,the death-angel has  

taken from our circle two dear sisters4 
,is it not hard for the human heart1 so 
full of pride1 to pass submissive under 
the rod8 ,yet in each affliction there  
is a blessing4 ,there is a holy1        
purifying influence that the children of
 ,god must feel in order to be made fit 
for ,his inheritance1--an influence that
 even mighty truth1 alone1 cannot bring2
 an influence that only trial can exert 
upon the proud heart4 ,this will make   
the weakest strong2 ,god accepts no     
sacrifice without salt or without fire4 
,trial gives us our ,christian          
character1 brings us into closer        
communion with our ,god4 ,with it our   
hearts may be made fair and pure as the 
snow that encircles the mountain-crest4 
,it was a bright-winged messenger that  
took from us our sisters1 though with   
the eye of flesh we could not see the   
brightness of ,his glory4#e   ,many of  
the old friends are married1 she        
continues1 and many are sleeping4 ,one  
hardly recognizes the old ,kentucky     

,home4 ,dearest friends have moved away4
 ,the home of one's youth seems strange4
 ,but of one ,i must tell you1 one      
dearer to me than all others--my        
brother4 ,god grant that ,i may not love
 him too well lest ,i forget ,him who   
gave me one so dear6  ,this year brought
 the war to a close4 ,we find ,oliver   
,carr once more on an evangelistic tour1
 followed1 we may be sure1 by best      
wishes from ,mattie ,myers for his      
success4 ,he is accompanied by ,john ,w4
 ,mountjoy4 ,they borrow horses at      
,may's ,lick1 load their saddle-pockets1
 and start for the mountains4 ,let us   
take a look at them1 ,july #ad1         
#ahfe1--;,a bright1 beautiful morning1  
says ,mountjoy1 writing joyously in his 
pocket-diary2 we rose with the sun1     
welcomed by the song of birds and the   
gayety of nature4  ,it is interesting to
 note just what preaching means1 and    
what it includes for these young        
,university students4 ,we led ,george   
and ,davy to water1 fed them and rubbed 

them off4 7,davy is ,oliver's colt1 so  
named for ,david ,armstrong1 and ,george
 is ,john's colt1 so called after       
,george ,ranck1 who trudged on foot with
 ,oliver to hear his first sermon at a  
school house on the ,perryville road    
three miles from ,harrodsburg1 and      
afterward became the ,lexington         
historian47 ,went to the house1 had     
prayers1 and then breakfast4 ,left      
immediately on our journey for          
,vanceburg1--rode slowly on account of  
the lameness of ,ol's ',davy4' ,singing 
joyously--this beautiful morning--we    
reached rows of cabins humbly situated  
by the roadside--the little children1   
the old grand-mother with her white     
cap--an old man mowing by the wayside4  
,i would gladly have helped him1 could  
,i have stopped4 99 99 99 ,we are now at
 the blacksmith shop1 having ',davy'    
shod--sixteen miles yet to ride before  
we reach ,vanceburg4  ,presently they   
pass the little school-house where      
,oliver learned his first lesson1 his a 

b c's the first day2 the second day it  
was a-b ab1 and the ,university student 
sees himself1 barefoot and tiny1        
trudging up to the doorway that looked  
so large to him then4 ,it is hard for   
him to believe that little boy himself4 
,the years at ,may's ,lick ,academy have
 come since then1 and the years at      
,harrodsburg1 and now the prospect of   
years at ,lexington4 ,he is already so  
removed from that little boy1 and all   
the world of that little boy1 so removed
 in life-purposes1 in eternal desires6  
and yet there is something of the little
 child in his tall awkward form--or in  
his heart1 rather--something always     
childlike4  ,the school-house where ,ol4
 learned his first lesson1 says         
,mountjoy--,i could not enter into half 
the joys of his sweet remembrances of   
happier days4 ,could not1 truly2 but why
 happier days8 ,is it not because they  
are past1 those days of youth1 never to 
be ours again2 surely it is not because 
they were in reality happier6  ,we pass 

through ,clarksburg about #ab1 we reach 
,vicksburg about one1 and now we--or ,i 
should say1 ,i1 am sitting on the bank  
of the ,ohio1--,oliver is doubtless     
resting from his experiences with ,davy4
 ,for1 ,while riding along about halfway
 between ,mount ,carmel and ,vanceburg1 
talking of ,geo4 ,ranck and ,davy       
,armstrong1 ,ol4 took a notion that his 
beast was becoming insensible to the    
spur on his right foot1 and concluded he
 would make a change4 ,he raised his    
left leg over the shoulder of ,davy--and
 then we are treated to a bit of ,greek 
in the diary-narrative1 the spirit1 if  
not the letter1 of which may be gleaned 
from a line further on--,i thought ,ol4 
would surely be killed4  ,away goes     
,davy1 free of any spur1 scattering     
saddle-pockets and hymn-books to right  
and left4 ,a quarter of a mile away he  
stops1 and looks back at the other      
borrowed horse as if to say1 ,george1   
throw ,john ,mountjoy off and let's go  
back to old man ,chancellor6--the old   

man1 evidently from whom they were      
borrowed4 ,at which1 ,george's spirit   
begins to rage1 and ,mountjoy has all he
 can do to keep in statu quo4 ,and his  
thought--if one can afterwards remember 
what his thought was at such a          
crisis--ran thus2 ,ol4 is killed or     
half-dead2 ,i suppose ,i will have all  
the preaching to do6 ,preaching he has  
to do1 but only his share1 but no       
funeral1 for ,ol4 staggers up and mounts
 and clings4 ,and now we find ,mountjoy 
alone on the river bank1 wishing that   
the music of the waves could inspire him
 to do justice to the thrilling scene   
just closed4  ,but after all1 ,oliver is
 not resting up from his dethronement1  
for we are presently to discover him in 
a situation none too heroic1 by the     
canons of genteel fiction4 ,we have come
 down to the landing to see the steamer 
,telegraph4 ,we are now down the river a
 little way4 ,while ,i have been        
writing1 ,ol4 has been washing his      
boots1 with sand for soap4 ,the boat has

 just passed down the river and the     
waves are lashing the shore1 making     
melody4 ,ol4 will preach tonight in the 
little school-house4  ,and somewhat     
further down we find in another         
handwriting--,all sitting together      
tonight1 and ,johnnie proposes that each
 of us write something in his diary and 
sign his name4                          
,o4 ,a4 ,,carr4  ,so the day1 bright and
 beautiful1 is at a close2 the waves of 
the ,ohio no longer sparkle with        
diamonds as the steamboat plows its way 
southward2 and the jolts of the         
journey--let us hope--are eased2 and the
 sermon has been preached2 and if we    
smile at the thought of the             
sand-scouring of the boots1 is it not   
with the smile of sympathy8 ,for we1    
too1 find beautiful the feet of those   
who bring tidings of great joy6 ,so1 as 
we say1 gone is that bright day of      
,july1 so many years ago2 and every     
little movement in the river one saw    
that day has1 for many years1 lapsed    

into stillness1 to give place to the    
movements of other times4 ,but the words
 spoken then1 the sermon preached1 the  
hymns sung1 the prayers offered1--who   
shall say there is not in the world     
to-day a greater love for humanity1 a   
deeper adoration of the ,christ1 because
 of them8  ,this same year ,mattie      
,myers wrote1    ,the leafy bowers their
 shadows cast1 and on the grass so cool1
   ,we lay our burning brows and weep   
the fleeting joys of school--  ,for her 
school-days are at last ended4  ,four   
years of instruction under her brother's
 surveillance1 six more at ,st4         
,catherine de ,sienna's and ,daughters' 
,college--ten years of lingering at the 
founts of knowledge6 ,and now that they 
have slipped away1 and the young girl   
faces the graver problem of life itself1
 the school-girl breaks into swan-song1 
and dies to her youth1 as she immerges  
into womanhood3    ,we leave thee1 ,alma
 ,mater1 dear1 with all the bitter grief
   ,that farewell brings to loving      

hearts1 yet with a sweet relief1--   ,a 
hope to tread thy walks again1 to       
breathe thy fragrant air1--   ,a hope to
 hear again thy voice1 thy holy truth to
 share4  ,to her mind1 education was not
 only acquirement of truth1 but of holy 
truth2 such an acquisition as called for
 its inevitable reward3    ,when from   
the dust the good shall rise   ,when    
glory's streaming from the skies2   ,the
 hand of love a wreath will twine1      
,eternal1 glorious1 divine4  ,miss      
,mattie3 ,dear ,sister-- ,what is this8 
,nothing less than a ,kentucky          
,university student1 writing from       
,social ,hall1 on the #abth of ,january1
 #ahff4 ,don't be surprised to find the 
name of your friend ,ollie at the       
conclusion of these lines1 he goes on1  
though ,i admit it is enough to surprise
 you4 ,but not us6 ,he was disappointed1
 he says1 because she did not come to   
,mount ,carmel during his last meeting1 
for ,i had all the preaching to do      
myself-- signifying that there was no   

young girl fresh from college to lead   
the singing4 ,the letter is all about   
his evangelistic work4 ,uncle ,gilbert1 
who had not been within a church for    
twenty years1 was constantly in his seat
 before me1 looking and listening with  
intent interest4  ,and then he mourns   
because his sister ,mary did not purify 
her soul by obeying the truth through   
the spirit4 ,privately1 she tells her   
preacher-brother that she believes2 but 
she will wait awhile before confessing  
her belief1 will wait for the husband to
 come4 ,but he does not come4 ,i left   
that dear good sister sitting on the    
stile1 watching to catch the last       
glimpse of me1 departing perhaps        
forever4 ,but that vacation was not     
spent in vain4 ,during two months ,i    
reported #acc additions1 organized four 
,sunday schools and two churches4 ,oh1  
how happy ,i would be tonight1 if all my
 dear relations were among those who    
have obeyed6 ,then he gives us an       
insight into the sort of things he and  

,miss ,mattie conversed about at social 
gatherings4 ,although my summer was     
indeed a happy one1 yet when ,i returned
 to where all are so worldly1 my heart  
seemed almost broken4 ,i will always    
remember the remark you made at         
,president ,milligan's reception1 in    
regard to the conversion of my parents2 
and of your faith in prayer4  ,serious1 
indeed1 but sweet in its strong         
helpfulness1 is this correspondence1 now
 springing up4 ,we have but one side of 
it1 but it reveals the other4 ,his next 
letter3 ,i will never forget your good  
advice1 nor will ,i cease to thank you  
for it4 ,mattie1 ,i regard you as my    
most wholesome counselor4 ,i seldom find
 a young lady who will give me advice2  
and none ever gave me more consolation  
than you4 ,i have just read your letter1
 and ,i feel stronger spiritually4 ,how 
cheering to the poor boy1 are these     
words from a sister in ,christ4 ,you ask
 me what message you shall bear to      
,mary--the sister we left gazing sadly  

from the stile1 waiting1 but unready4   
,if you have an opportunity1 please     
encourage her to become a ,christian4 ,i
 took tea with ,president ,williams last
 night4 ,he says if he returns to       
,harrodsburg next year1 he will have you
 as his assistant teacher4 ,i hope you  
will sufficiently recover your health to
 be able to take up that employment next
 to the ,christian ministry in point of 
usefulness1 that you may labor for ,god 
and humanity4  ,illustration3 ,school   
,days ,ended4  ,he writes in ,march3 ,i 
have been on a visit to my sister1      
,minnie ,fox1 to attend an exhibition   
given by her husband's school4 ,from    
there ,i went to ,winchester to preach1 
and have just returned4 ,my             
roommate--here he pauses to take futile 
revenge--,dr4 ,sweeny1 is amusing       
himself with his flute and vexing me no 
little with his discordant notes4 ,of   
course good natured ,ol4 bears it all in
 good part1 hoping however1 that the    
doctor's serenade will soon conclude6--a

 side-remark which we might have made   
ourselves4 ,then to the more serious    
matters3 ,i admire more than ever the   
kind1 easy and natural manner breathed  
in your letters4 ,your style portrays a 
good heart4 ,i love talking letters1 and
 such talk1 too1 that expresses         
spontaneous emotions4 ,how happy ,i am  
under the conviction that you feel      
solicitations about my welfare1 and     
offer up prayers in my behalf4 ,mattie1 
,i often think of your remark to me last
 ,june1 stating what you thought could  
be done through faith4  ,he has two     
regular appointments now1 for preaching2
 at ,macedonia#f and ,providence4 ,he   
touches upon the latest news3 ,i suppose
 you have heard of ,brother ,a4         
,campbell's death4 ,how sad to think    
that one so great and good must lose his
 power and fade away6 ',he had fought a 
good fight1' and now goes away to wear  
the crown4 ,president ,williams will go 
back to ,harrodsburg4 ,he prefers       
teaching young ladies to boys4 ,mattie6 

,i am trying to compose an oration on   
the ',true and ,good in ,man1' and would
 be very much obliged if you will give a
 few suggestions4 7,bad luck to that pen
 for dropping the ink6 please excuse the
 blot47 ,i will be very glad to hear    
from you soon on the ,true and ,good in 
,man4 ,good night6 ,may the choicest    
blessings of heaven be yours1 in time   
and eternity4  ,mattie ,myers is still  
seeking to regain her strength--for     
health has fled after the closing days  
at ,daughters' ,college2 and as she     
rests1 she reads the ,quarterly1--no    
light reading1 one would think1 for a   
girl of eighteen--and ,aurora ,leigh1   
always her favorite1--and at            
night--these beautiful nights in ,may1  
she goes to the meeting held at         
,stanford by ,moses ,e4 ,lard4 ,oliver  
has no such excuses1 he writes her1 for 
delaying his answer1 but he has others  
just as good4 ,i have yet those five    
studies this hot weather1 he says2      
besides1 ,i go to the country to preach 

nearly every ,lord's day4 ,however1 we  
would not have her think his preaching  
excuses any dereliction of duty4 ,i have
 had occasion to pronounce my love for  
the ministry1 and ,i need only say that 
it is still my chief delight4  ,and then
 he comes to deal with the man about    
whom the storm-clouds had gathered1 the 
favorite professor who used to walk with
 the boy ,oliver when friends were few  
and the ,university was at ,harrodsburg3
 ,last ,friday night ,dr4 ,pinkerton    
addressed our society--the              
,philothean1--to encourage us in our    
undertaking--about twenty-five of us are
 studying for the ministry4 ,his subject
 was ',true ,greatness4' ,all were      
entertained with the originality of his 
conceptions1 and his peculiarly terse1  
pointed and feeling manner4 ,it just    
seemed a picture of the man revealing   
his noble heart1 and showing his fervent
 religious sentiments4 ,perhaps you have
 been prejudiced against the doctor1    
owing to his political proclivities4    

,but ,mattie1 allow me to say that      
although he acted as a ,christian should
 not act1 while overwhelmed in          
excitement1 and had his all in the      
',negro ,bureau1' still1 ,i cannot but  
believe he was sincere4 ,yes6 he was so 
deeply convinced of the correctness of  
his position that he would have been a  
miserable man1 a vile hypocrite1 had he 
acted otherwise4 ,he is ready to        
sacrifice popularity and friends2 yes1  
,i verily believe life itself1 for what 
his conscience tells him is right4 ,for 
this ,i admire him4 ,for his sympathy1  
,i esteem him2 and because he is a good 
man1 ,i love him4 ,i know many lips have
 hissed stern anathemas against poor1   
passionate ,dr4 ,pinkerton2 but his     
goodness will compare favorably with    
that of any of his accusers4 ,i hope the
 brethren will labor to restore him to  
his proper orbit1 where he will shine   
among the brightest stars of the        
,reformation4  ,so this generous young  
defender goes on and on1 till he reaches

 a blaze of eloquence of which we are   
duly suspicious1 knowing not what       
element of actuality 7which is seldom   
eloquent7 may have been consumed in the 
heat of chivalrous ardor4 ,it is enough 
to know that we have found a voice to   
speak for the man who had his all in the
 ,negro ,bureau1 nor was it a light     
thing to speak thus to ,mattie ,myers1  
whose schoolbook is written close with  
,southern songs4 ,she loves to          
sing--else she would not have taken the 
pains to write it down so carefully--   
,oh1 yes1 ,i am a ,southern girl1 and   
glory in the name1   ,and boast it with 
far greater pride than glittering wealth
 or fame4   ,i envy not the ,northern   
girl her robes of beauty rare   ,though 
diamonds grace her snowy neck1 and      
pearls bedeck her hair4                 
,hurrah1 hurrah1 for the ,sunny ,south  
so dear6           ,three cheers for the
 homespun dress         ,the ,southern  
ladies wear4  ,after the exalted strain 
of the first part of this letter1 we    

confess to a great satisfaction in the  
latter part1 which seems to come so much
 closer to the ground on which most of  
us live3 ,i delivered your message to   
,miss ,shaw ,turner4 ,she expressed an  
ardent desire to see you1 and gave      
evidence to a strong attachment to      
you1--which ,i suppose you will allow me
 to do4 7,observe the artfulness of that
 which7 ,i am very much obliged to you  
for the invitation to the railroad      
picnic1 and ,i think it would be        
altogether proper for the ,car to beat  
the railroad1 ric1 tic4 7,a pun6 what   
next87 ,well1 ,i have heard ,brother    
,lard preach lately2 no wonder ,i can't 
write to you6 ,we are anticipating a    
happy time in ,june at our society      
exhibitions4 ,please come6 ,but before  
you come1 oblige me by writing some of  
your thoughts on this subject3 ',the    
,tears of ,history and the ,smiles of   
,prophecy4' ,this is my subject and ,i  
have not written a word4 ,jas4 ,c4      
,keith1 ,albert ,myles and myself are to

 represent the ,university on the #bhth 
,june--a distinguished honor1 indeed4 ,i
 am also elected to represent the       
,philothean society1 and ,i have not    
prepared that speech4 ,oh1 what a fix   
,i'm in6 ,please1 ,mattie1 help me6     
,next summer1 let us visit ,mount       
,carmel again1 and go to ,a,esculapia   
for our health4 7,only for our health87 
,brother ,myles sends his kindest       
regards1 and says he doesn't think near 
so much of ,miss ,ada as of you6        
,mattie1 please write soon4  ,next month
 comes the exhibits1 and in ,july--this 
from ,oliver1--,i know you will be      
surprised at the caption of this        
letter--,ghent1 ,carroll ,county1       
,kentucky4 ,it does1 indeed1 surprise   
her1 for after a year's absence1 one    
would have supposed the student anxious 
to go back to his parents1 kindred and  
friends4 ,but ,i have sacrificed the    
pleasure of meeting my loved ones1 and  
given up all1 for the good of this      
people4 ,his roommate1 ,albert ,myles1  

has urged him to this course1 for       
,albert1 who has been assisted in       
,college by ,mrs4 ,drusie ,tandy ,ellis 
of ,ghent1 is called there to hold the  
meeting4 ,college days were over ,june  
#bhth1 he continues4 ,i underwent six   
critical1 trying examinations1 and      
prepared my two speeches--and was then  
so sick ,i could hardly walk4 ,the      
doctor brought me out of a weakening    
disease so that ,i could stand on the   
stage while ,i spoke2 but that was about
 all4 ,when the boys parted for their   
homes1 they left me in extreme agony4   
,my poor frame was racked and tortured  
by unmerciful disease4 ,many ,i did not 
get to bid goodby--dear boys6 ,god be   
with you1 and may we meet again next    
,october4 ,my roommate1 ,brother ,myles1
 remained with me4 ,when ,i recovered1  
he plead so affectionately for his 'chum
 ,ol4' to go with him to ,ghent1 that ,i
 could not refuse4  ,and so they go to  
,covington1 and at ,cincinnati take the 
,joe ,anderson for the river town4 ,but 

in about two weeks1 ,oliver will be at  
,mount ,carmel where ,mattie is now--he 
urges her to stay till he comes--and he 
will bring her a book by one of his     
favorite professors--,mc,garvey's       
,commentary--solid food for the young   
lady1 one would think4  ,back in the    
,university next fall--let us hope in   
better health than when he left it6--we 
find ,oliver again pen in hand3 ,james  
,keith1 ,albert ,myles and myself will  
finish the course this year by hard     
study1 having about twenty-five         
recitations each week--and ,i am in     
wretchedly poor condition4 ,i'm fearful 
of my health's giving way under the     
great burden4 ,i hope and pray for      
strength of mind and body to prepare for
 a long service4 ,i sometimes think it  
is almost a sin for us young men who are
 preparing for the ministry1 to stay    
here conning over dull lessons in       
mathematics1 ,latin and ,greek4 ,like a 
caged bird1 ,i long to be free of the   
,college-wall cage4 ,i am anxious to go 

into the world and preach the ,gospel4  
,i have been telling my friend of how   
you and ,i preach together1 and what a  
good1 assistant preacher you are4 ,how  
,i would like to be with you and your   
sister tonight4 ,dear me6 ,what a       
contrast this dull monotony presents to 
that blissful happy meeting--to do such 
noble work as that in which we were     
engaged6 ,never can ,i forget that      
meeting1 nor our trips to ,orangeburg6  
neither can ,i forget you who cling so  
tenaciously to 'that good part4' ,you   
and ,sister ,o',bannon both impressed me
 as being ,god's dear children4         
,remember your mission to speak to my   
sister ,mary about becoming a           
,christian4 ,i suppose you heard of my  
good meeting at ,sardis4 ,forty-five    
were added--four of my cousins among the
 number4 ,don't fail to send that       
sermon4 ,mattie1 ,i send the promised   
photograph1 please send me yours4 ,write
 to me soon1 and tell me what you are   
doing4 ,i know you are not hearing      

,brother ,lard now4 ,i think you might  
write poor ,ol4 a long letter very soon6
  ,poor ,ol4 received the letter2 for we
 find him answering in a short          
time--from his letter we may gain an    
insight into hers3 ,you speak of your   
benevolent scheme in progress for the   
'poor wanderers of ,new ,york4' ,i do   
not know your exact meaning1 but ever   
since ,i formed your acquaintance1 ,i   
have believed you a chosen instrument of
 ,god to accomplish great good for poor 
mortals4 ,now you are making the step4  
,dear me6 ,how ,i wish such a spirit of 
,christianity infused itself through the
 purposes of the ten thousand           
accomplished and efficient young ladies 
of ,kentucky6 ,how much good might be   
done by womanhood1 if they would devote 
their time1 means and energy to         
alleviating suffering4 ,perhaps it would
 be a better plan to look nearer home4  
,i am glad to know that you whom ,god   
has blessed with a mind and heart able  
to conceive1 plan and feel1 are         

breathing a prayer for the distressed4  
,mattie1 it speaks well for you1 and    
makes me rejoice4 ,a young friend of    
mine insists on my preaching at ,mount  
,sterling that he may obey the ,gospel4 
,i can't refuse to go4 ,i know ,i will  
lose time1 and distract my attention    
from my studies1 but what is that in    
comparison to saving a soul8 ,i don't   
hesitate to go1 but will be off soon4   
,encourage the building of the church at
 ,mount ,carmel all you can4 ,they will 
receive #ej4jj from me next summer for  
that purpose4 ,excuse bad writing4 ,you 
know ,i can do better4  ,in ,oliver's   
next letter--,december--we find him in a
 rather sensitive mood4 ,mattie has     
accused him of ,some egotism clearly    
manifested in a parenthesis he appears  
to have stowed away in his last epistle4
 ,dear me6 says ,oliver1 wounded and    
perplexed1 ,what can it be8 ,after      
trying to recall anything that may have 
prompted her sarcasm1 and after an      
eloquent outburst against the meanness  

of egotism wherever found1 he is obliged
 to give it up4 ,after relieving his    
feelings he falls back on ,brother      
,lard1 who appears as a convenient      
stalking-horse for both sides4 ,if you  
think my writing home a poor excuse for 
not writing to you1 ,i have a very good 
one at hand4 ,brother ,lard is preaching
 here every night4 ,that1 as you know   
7having offered it yourself7 is a valid 
excuse6 ,i have just returned from a    
visit to ,president ,williams who is in 
high spirits4 ,he has just been giving  
me a lecture on my returning here for   
still another year4 ,he is a dear good  
man1 and often gives me good advice2 but
 ,i don't think it would be right1 after
 taking a diploma in the ,bible ,college
 and another in the ,college of ,arts1  
to remain another year4 ,now1 ,mattie1  
,i have always paid much attention to   
your advice2 what do you think on the   
subject8 ,you know my deficiences2 but  
you also know my burning desire to be at
 work4 ,like you1 ,i admire ,geo4 ,d4   

,prentice's ',closing ,year'            
extravagantly4 ,he has immortalized     
himself with that inimitable production4
 ,what a pity that such a man is not a  
,christian6 ,the world is presenting a  
sad picture4 ,the people are beginning  
to lose confidence even in the clergy4  
,i am convinced that1 as a ,christian   
body1 we are more in need of deep-toned 
piety than of anything else4 ,we have   
more learning than we put to good use4  
,we need exemplary conduct in young men 
and women4 ,i am going to start out in  
the ,new ,year to live a holier1 better 
and consequently a happier life4 ,please
 remember me in your prayers4  ,our next
 letter to ,miss ,mattie1 dated         
,december #beth1 is not from ,oliver    
,carr1 but from another ,university     
student1 who signs himself by his       
initials4 ,poor young gentleman1 we seek
 not to know his name1 as he pours out  
his love of near half a century gone4   
,her very welcome favor1 it appears1 had
 nipped his sweetest hopes in the bud1  

but he was glad to receive it4 ,he goes 
to the point3 ,you say that no more     
intimate relationship can exist between 
us than that of friendship4 ,miss       
,mattie1 why not8 ,i do not presume to  
ask for details1 whether your heart is  
prepossessed in favor of another or     
whether 99 99 99 ,but no1 this was very 
real to the ,d41 of those days1 let us  
not listen to his heart-beats1 but hope 
rather that ,d4 now sixty-odd1 if he is 
a day1 has long since forgotten all     
about it4 ,he is introduced here merely 
to cast one tiny ray upon the           
character-development of the young lady 
addressed3 ,in the mean time1 you will  
allow me to thank you very sincerely for
 the candor with which you have dealt   
with me1 not only in this               
correspondence1 but ever since our      
acquaintanceship4 ,and then1 remembering
 that it is the #beth1 he adds with a   
stout heart1 ,just while ,i think of it1
 ,i will take your ',christmas ,gift6'  
,he gives a flash-light of those        

vacation days3 ,most of the students    
have gone to their homes4 ,egg-nog is   
flowing freely here4 ,the landlady has  
it in abundance1 today4 ,some of the    
company partook largely2 among them ,i  
noticed two young ladies4 ,by the way1 a
 little news afloat3 ,miss ,jennie ,lard
 is to be married to a very interesting 
youth 7,note the bitterness of our      
rejected lover67 of fifty and odd       
summers3 ,this lovely lad is ,woodson1 a
 lawyer of ,st4 ,louis1 who is very     
promising for a mere beginner in this   
up-hill business of life4 ,in the       
exuberance of his youthful feelings he  
has presented her with a gold watch1    
rings infinite1 and earbobs not a few4  
7,oh1 the bitterness of it67  ,then1 in 
this incidental fashion1 we find        
introduced a subject which is presently 
to deepen until it envelops all other   
thoughts of ,mattie ,myers3 ,alex4      
,milligan received a letter of twelve   
pages from ,brother ,gore1 dated        
,liverpool4 ,he and ,surber intend to   

start for ,australia on the #bast--two  
young friends of ,oliver ,carr and      
,mattie ,myers1 going forth as          
missionaries4 ,they have visited        
,spurgeon's tabernacle1 ,crystal        
,palace1 etc4 ,they describe the        
,english manner of worship1 different   
from ours4 ,they have no preaching      
,lord's ,day morning2 that part of the  
day is spent in taking the ,lord's      
,supper1 ,scripture reading1 etc4       
,preaching at night4 ,and then ,d4      
enters upon the subject of ,conscience1 
in which it seems ,mattie is greatly    
interested2 but our own will not permit 
us to follow him into those intricate   
depths4  ,three months pass by1 but     
,oliver has not forgotten ,mattie's     
thrust3 ,i do wish you had gratified me 
by sending the sentence in quotation in 
which ,i expressed egotism4 ,i have been
 much troubled about it and ,i would    
like to know exactly what it was4 ,then 
after several pages of severe           
self-inspection1 to find the            

contamination1 he urges her to see again
 his sister ,mary and his other         
relatives who are out of the church1 and
 continue with zest1 in finding a       
delightful means of prolonging this     
correspondence3 ,you say that the       
affirmative of the question1 ',will     
,christ's ,second ,coming be            
,premillenial8' is ,scriptural4 ,well1  
we will have a debate1 if you say so4   
,you must make the first speech2 ,i'm   
simply to reply4 ,but as suggestive of  
the arguments1 ,i wish you to prove to  
me1 ,first 99 99 99  ,and so they       
debate2 and spring blooms in ,kentucky1 
and summer comes with its hard work and 
balmy airs4 ,mattie ,myers is not as    
strong as she might be1 but she has had 
a long rest1 and can rest no longer2 for
 that active spirit calls her to her    
chosen work4 ,she has already done some 
teaching1 but in the autumn of #ahfg1   
she purchases ,franklin ,college at     
,lancaster1 and starts definitely upon  
her career4 ,she is the president1 of   

course2 and she feels as she walks the  
familiar streets1--no longer a little   
girl under her brother ,joe's tutelage1 
but a grave young teacher--a girl of    
twenty now1 surrounded by other         
girls--that her life-work has1 indeed1  
begun4 ,her first school6 ,it does not1 
indeed1 promise that wide field she has 
so long coveted2 the conditions are     
straight1 the capabilities rather       
narrow2 but after all1 it will serve for
 a time4 ,why it served so short a      
time--but one school term1 in all1--may 
be gleaned from the continuation of the 
correspondence3  ,i confide in you1     
,oliver writes in ,september1 as ,i do  
in my own kin4 ,the plain truth is that 
you seem much nearer to me than some of 
my kindred who are ever opposing my     
humble work4 ,i am thankful that ,i ever
 met you1 and that we have learned to   
sympathize with each other4 ,i made a   
flying visit to ,mount ,carmel1 and     
cannot say how sad ,i felt at not seeing
 you there4 ,i preached at ,orangeburg1 

and had the pleasure of receiving among 
others1 my little cousin ,rachel4 ,i    
have long been praying for her          
conversion4 ,i baptized her and her     
husband both at the same time4  ,from   
there ,i went to the ,state ,meeting at 
,lexington1 and a happy time ,i had4 ,it
 was said by old men that they had never
 known one so good4 ,during the meeting1
 a letter was received and read before  
the convention by ,brother ,j4 ,w4      
,mc,garvey4 ,it was from ,brother       
,surber4 ,he stated very touchingly the 
need of more preachers in ,australia1   
and urged ,brother ,myles and me to     
come4 ,he expressly stated that the     
,australian brethren had--under the     
recommendation of himself and           
,gore--selected us1 and wanted no       
others4 ,brother ,surber wrote to me1   
and gave a description of ,melbourne1   
where he wants me to preach4 ,his       
description made me wonder at the degree
 of refinement there4 ,the city is      
beautifully adorned with flower-gardens2

 #adj1jjj inhabitants4 ,he imagines ,i'm
 there1 walking with him through the    
city4 ,he says1 ',come1 ,ollie1 it is   
just as near ,heaven from this country  
as from ,kentucky4' ,he says we will be 
to the ,cause there what ,walter ,scott 
and ,barton ,stone were here1 etc4 ,the 
brethren there are almost wild for an   
evangelist from ,kentucky2 have sent    
#hjj4jj in gold to bear expenses of     
,brother ,myles and myself4 ,above all  
considerations1 the good ,i might do is 
the grandest--to preach to people who   
are not tired of hearing6 ,i know my    
relatives will oppose my going1 and that
 it will almost break my heart to leave 
them2 but ,i cannot consult flesh and   
blood4 ,i have prayed and wept over     
this1 but ,i cannot escape the          
conviction that it is my duty to go4    
,all the brethren except ,dr4 ,pinkerton
 advised me to go4 ,president ,milligan 
just wept like a child4 ,i've not let   
the folks at home know anything about   
it2 there is great excitement here4     

,mattie1 what do you think of my going8 
,would you go with me8 ,i'm in earnest4 
,brother ,keith and ,i are holding a    
meeting at ,millersburg4 ,i wish ,i had 
you as an assistant preacher1 as ,i did 
last summer4 ,i hear that people are    
well educated in ,australia4 ,please    
write immediately4  ,we have broken the 
news to the reader1 just as it was      
broken to ,mattie ,myers2 but there is a
 difference2 for in those days1         
knowledge of ,australia was very        
superficial in ,kentucky4 ,it was       
immensely farther away then than now1   
and in proportion as it took so long to 
go there1 to that degree did it appear  
wild and barbarous1 semi-civilized at   
best4 ,to ,carr1 ,myles and ,keith1 the 
senior class of #ahfg1--the three young 
preachers and roommates1 who were called
 the ,trio1--the ,australians were a    
mixture of exported ,english convicts   
and bush-men with bristling hair4 ,to   
their imagination1 an ,australian was   
hardly to be classified with any of the 

recognized races of mankind2 he was a   
mongrel1 a mystery4 ,and even if they   
could have received the enthusiastic    
laudations of young ,surber and ,gore1  
the perils of months upon the deep which
 rendered passage full of dangers1 and a
 speedy return impossible1 must still   
have appalled the fancy4 ,to go to      
,australia1 then1 was to cut away from  
the old life with all its ties of love1 
of laughter and of tears1 and to find   
what consolation one might in the       
thought that the distance from there to 
heaven was as short as from a ,kentucky 
haven6  ,the next month1 ,oliver writes 
to ,mattie ,myers3 ,your touching letter
 gave me more encouragement in my       
expected trip to ,australia than any ,i 
have received1 leaving my heart         
literally steeped in faith1 hope and    
love4 ,i hated to tell you my plan1 for 
you are always holding up to my view the
 amount of work to be done in ,kentucky4
 ,this is the hardest question ,i was   
ever called on to decide4 ,it came to me

 something like the question of my      
soul's salvation4 ,at the ,state        
,meeting1 old and young advised me to   
go--all except ,dr4 ,pinkerton1 whose   
counsel was always very weighty with me4
 ,his argument was that the people of   
,northeast ,kentucky need my labor too  
badly1 and that their souls are just as 
precious as those in ,australia4 ,but   
you know that in ,lewis ,county ,i have 
not the opportunities to labor that ,i'd
 have in ,australia4 ,life is too       
short--we must use every advantage4     
,there are others to take my place in   
this country4  ,i wept all the way from 
,lexington4 ,and then ,i placed in the  
scales1 home with all the meaning of    
,,home--father1 mother1 sisters1        
brothers1 and friends--and no one has   
dearer friends than ,i1 and ,god knows  
,i love them dearly1--and on the other  
side ,i placed the salvation of perhaps 
thousands of souls1 the love of ,jesus  
and his ,cause4 ,i looked at the balance
 with tearful eyes1 and resolved to tell

 parents1 kindred and friends adieu4    
,the scale turned4 ,my love for all dear
 to me on earth1 cannot deter me from   
going with glad tidings to the weary and
 heavy-laden4 ,and yet how sad to leave 
you and all others so dear4 ,i declare1 
it almost breaks my heart4 ,yet go ,i   
must6 ,i wrote home and told all about  
it4 ,oh1 ,i hated to let my poor mother 
know anything about it4 ,i am to stay   
three or five years4 ,i will have an    
audience of #a1jjj every ,sunday4 ,the  
salary will be #a1jjj in gold4 ,some of 
this ,i will send home to my poor       
parents2 and some to my brother ,dick   
whom ,i am going to educate2 and some to
 the young man ,i am already educating  
for the ministry4 ,i am going to make   
one more strong appeal to my parents to 
obey the ,gospel4 ,how shall ,i be able 
to tell them goodby1 if ,i am to go away
 with no hope of meeting them in heaven8
 ,i am glad you have such a good school4
 ,oh1 you are doing a noble work6 ,just 
think of training #ij or #ajj little    

hearts and leading them to ,jesus6      
,december comes1 and the stress of      
resolution grows harder to bear3 ,i have
 come home at last1 but not to rejoice  
in the association of friends4 ,i am    
chilled by translation from a fervid    
spiritual labor and fellowship of the   
saints1 into a fellowship of worldly    
affairs where every effort is to get    
something to eat1 drink and wear1 with  
scarcely a thought of the hereafter4    
,brother ,dick is dangerously ill4 ,the 
dear fellow suffers the most            
excruciating pain4 ,as ,i gaze upon his 
tender form1 ,i wonder if ,i am ever to 
realize that thought--my brother1 a     
preacher6 ,added to this sorrow is the  
sympathy ,i have for my poor mother1 who
 weeps whenever ,australia is mentioned4
 ,it is very distressing4 ,all charge me
 with not loving them4 ,my dear father  
rests his heavy head upon his hand1 and 
weeps to think of the future4 ,his frail
 body is tottering as he descends the   
hill of life4 ,i fear ,i shall never see

 him again1 after ,i say farewell4 ,it  
well nigh breaks my heart to hear them  
chide me for resolving to go on that    
long1 long voyage4 ,i close this sad    
picture by throwing myself into my only 
refuge--faithful prayer1 and immortal   
hope4 ,the next part of the letter shows
 that ,oliver was in earnest when he    
asked ,mattie ,myers to go with him3    
,in ,lexington ,i met ,brother          
,mc,garvey on the street 7his teacher   
with whom he lodged during his last year
 at the ,university47 ,he urged me to   
tell him all that happened during my    
brief visit to you at ,lancaster 7where 
she is teaching her first school47 ,in  
confidence1 ,i told him your objections 
and difficulties4 ,when ,i had finished1
 he said1--  ',i admire her             
consideration4 ,it is a serious         
question1 ,i admit4 ,with regard to her 
health1 and the dangers of the voyage1  
you and she are on a common footing4    
,she need not be deterred by the        
supposition that you die and leave her  

in that distant land2 the brethren here 
would1 in that case1 have her safely    
returned home4' ,he urged our marriage1 
and trip to ,australia4 ,he was         
delighted with the idea of having you   
there as a teacher4 ,we talked of the   
sacrifice of your school at ,lancaster1 
and he argued that it would be far      
better for the cause of ,christianity   
and education to have some one take your
 place in ,lancaster1 and have you      
occupy a higher sphere of usefulness4 ,i
 wish you had been present to hear him  
talk2 he is a dear1 good fellow4 ,with  
his strong clear brain1 he adjusts his  
plans2 with an eye of faith1 he views   
the future4 ,i pray you1 weigh his      
opinions in your well-balanced judgment 
before you conclude4 ,i talked with     
,president ,williams2 ,i fear he will   
not advise you to go4 ,brother          
,mc,garvey says it will depend upon the 
mood in which you find him4 ,then do    
cheer him up1 and prepare him for a     
happy answer6  ,the letter concludes    

with urging the marriage1 cautioning her
 against giving heed to the advice of   
others--as in the case of ,john         
,augustus ,williams--but the wisdom of  
sometimes heeding the counsel of        
others--for instance1 that of ,john ,w4 
,mc,garvey4  ,though a stranger to you  
in person-- ,what is this8 ,a letter    
written to ,mattie ,myers by this very  
,j4 ,w4 ,mc,garvey6 ,by request of      
,brother ,carr1 he says4 ,one would not 
expect a passionate1 enthusiastic burst 
of eloquence from the author of the     
,commentary on ,acts4 ,what is said     
here1 emanates from a strong1 clear     
brain4 ,as the ,bible instructor sees   
it1 the situation stands thus3 ,after   
all1 your own heart must decide whether 
you go or stay4 ,one thing seems        
certain1 that he will go4 ,it is for you
 to endure his long absence1 and risk   
the uncertainties of his return1 or     
share the voyage with him1 and help the 
noble cause to which he consecrates his 
all4  ,this same month1 ,oliver returns 

to the charge3 ,i waited a week with the
 keenest anxiety1 hoping each night to  
get an answer from you4 ,it has come at 
last4 ,mattie6 ,i anticipated what it   
would be1 from reading ,president       
,williams' letter4 ,i know he has tried 
to mould your life for teaching1 alone4 
,he is true and noble and ,i doubt not  
he gave you1 as you say1 'his wisest    
judgment and the fullest expression of  
his good heart on the subject4' ,i      
believe he meant to point to our highest
 good2 but ,i cannot follow his advice4 
,i have pondered both your and his      
reasons for wishing delay4 ,both of you 
urge a year's preparation4 ,well1 what  
kind of preparation8 ,you are already   
prepared to teach those in ,australia2  
and ,i know ,i can tell them what to do 
to be saved4 ,i know ,i am weak2 but    
,northeast ,kentucky is not the place   
for me to get strong4 ,you say ,i 'need 
to know assuredly that ,i can meet stern
 realities victoriously4' ,i do not     
think ,i will know more about that than 

,i do now1 till ,i meet them4 ,of course
 a year's experience would increase my  
usefulness1 but why not acquire it where
 the brethren want me8 ,i don't know    
what especial point you had in view by  
saying you would like a year's hard     
study under ,president ,williams4 ,what 
were you going to study8 ,you have taken
 his full course1 ,i presume4 ,we have  
simply the story of the ,cross to tell  
and ,i believe that we can do it now4   
,so the letter goes on for eight        
closely-written pages1 showing the      
fervor of eloquence quite lacking in the
 concise review by ,mc,garvey2 but1     
then1 it was not ,mc,garvey who was in  
love4 ,oliver is in love1 doubly so2    
first and always first1 with his ,cause2
 and then always with ,mattie4 ,it is a 
terrible struggle for the young girl1   
for she too1 is in love2 but her        
affections have always associated       
teaching with the ,cause4 ,she must know
 in her heart that this missionary      
enterprise is a divergence from her     

central idea1 however much more good it 
may accomplish4 ,here is her college1   
bought and paid for1 and here are her   
#ij or #ajj girls for training4 ,she may
 hope for different blessings beyond the
 seas1 but not of this sort4            
,illustration3 ,prof4 ,j4 ,b4 ,myers    
,illustration3 ,considering ,his        
,letter4  ,and here is her brother ,joe 
bitterly opposed to the plan1 as one's  
brother ,joe may very naturally be4 ,it 
is well enough for ,mc,garvey1 who      
thinks first of the dissemination of the
 ,gospel1 to smile upon her going2 and  
how could ,williams1 whose ideal for    
woman is the vocation of teaching1 say  
otherwise than wait8 ,it is well enough 
for ,oliver to see but one course before
 him2 he never entertained himself with 
dreams of teaching school4 ,he always   
meant to preach1 and ,australia means   
more of it1 with wider good to hope for4
 ,but it is no simple problem for       
,mattie ,myers4  ,a one-sided           
correspondence1 we have been treated to1

 which1 though one-sided1 has           
nevertheless given us as good an insight
 into the one addressed as if she had   
done all the writing2 better perhaps2   
for now we are to hear her voice1 which 
in its agitation and perplexity1 does   
not1 it may be1 reveal her as she is3   
,i have stretched forth my hands and    
nailed my heart to the ,cross4 ,you may 
cast it from you1 but conscience nailed 
it there4 ,for awhile ,i cheated myself 
with the belief that its voice mingled  
with the voice of my heart1 ',you are   
already prepared2 go with him4' ,but it 
was only the echo of my heart's happy   
song4 ,i feel that ,i would be an       
incumbrance1 rather than your co-worker4
 ,however mournfully my heart may cry1  
however beseechingly1 ,i cannot go with 
you4 ,conscience1 my guide1 beckons me1 
and fervently ,i follow1 though my heart
 is torn asunder4 ,ah1 the bloodless    
battles that are fought in our world6   
,you have said1 ',although ,i love you  
as ,i love no one else on earth1 still1 

if you deny me1 ,i must go alone4' ,i   
say in reply1 that though ,i love you   
with that love of which only a          
,christian woman is susceptible1 ,i     
cannot go with you4 ,your capabilities  
fit you for one field of labor1 mine fit
 me for another4 ,we have all to build  
an altar4 ,i have built mine1 and laid  
thereon my tenderest feelings1 the      
yearning desire of the woman-nature to  
be loved4 ,i know that this mysterious  
yearning which ,god has planted with his
 own hand in woman's heart will1 if left
 unsatisfied1 cast a shadow over her    
life2 that however strong1 however      
self-reliant a woman may be1 her heart  
reaches out for something to complete   
her happiness4 ,but the giant will can  
strengthen the trembling1 faltering     
heart4  ,and it is well to nail the     
heart to the ,cross that raises it      
nearer to ,god4 ,he will give it        
strength to suffer4 ,and his love can   
never fail4 ,do not think that ,i am    
staggering under complaint4 ,like a     

cheerful traveler ,i will take up my    
life-burden1 and continue the journey1  
with a song in my mouth1 keeping time to
 the voice of conscience and my ,god4   
,do not think for a moment1 ,ollie1 that
 ,i would dissuade you from entering    
upon your grand mission4 ,what ,i said  
to you before ,i knew you loved me1 ,i  
say to you now1 though it wrings my     
heart with an anguish that ,i sometimes 
think cannot be borne4 ,sometimes ,i    
feel that my heart must break1 but it is
 sustained by the love of ,god4 ,if     
conscience bids you go1 then you must   
go4 ,but ,i cannot conceive how         
conscience would say to you to leave a  
field in which laborers are few1 for one
 which may cost you your life4 ,i am    
impressed that going is a matter of     
inclination rather than of conscience4  
,nevertheless1 if conscience does tell  
you so1 then ,i urge you with all the   
earnestness of my soul1 to go4 ,go2 and 
the burdens of my prayers will be for   
him so far away1 and yet so very near4  

,alas6 how great a mountain is our own  
conscience1 and how small a molehill    
that of our neighbor6 ,mattie1 who has  
been pointing out that all her future   
misery is to come from obeying her own1 
pauses to doubt if ,oliver's conscience 
is a conscience at all6 ,on such        
provocation as that1 who can blame      
,oliver for having doubts about         
,mattie's conscience8 ,that he did have 
doubts1 and that he did his utmost to   
cause her to agree with him1 no one can 
doubt with the following letter before  
him3  ,dear ,mattie3--,yours received4  
,i heartily agree to ,march #bfth as our
 wedding day4 ,i will write to tell     
sister ,mary and ,matt to come down to  
,may's ,lick on the #bgth4 ,saturday ,i 
will deliver my farewell address here4  
,we will go to ,maysville en route for  
,cincinnati4 ,horace came from          
,flemingsburg yesterday to find out     
something about it4 ,matt1 ,bud and     
,mollie are coming4  ,mattie1 ,i have   
the best kind of news to tell you4 ,hold

 your breath while you read4 ,father    
came forward at church yesterday1 and   
made the good confession4 ',bless the   
,lord1 ,o my soul and all that is within
 me1 bless his holy name6' ,i recognized
 in that1 the answer to many a prayer4  
,and now if my mother would obey the    
gospel ,i would believe your prophecy   
uttered at ,president ,milligan's       
reception was fulfilled4 ,do you        
remember what it was8--',brother ,ollie1
 ,i believe ,god will make you          
instrumental in bringing your family    
into the fold4' ,oh1 will that ever be8 
,mother won't go to church4 ,she has    
never heard me preach but twice2 but ,i 
will pray on1 and hope on4   #e ,when   
first ,i saw the following lines1 ,i    
called ,mattie to hear me read them to  
her4 ,i thought of her ,,children1 the  
girls she had taught4 ,we were seated in
 her private parlor2 and her attention  
was fixed from the first stanza3        
,shedding sunshine of love on my face4  
,the reading ended1 she threw herself on

 the bed and wept aloud4 ,her feelings1 
when fully aroused1 were paroxysms of   
joy or grief2 and now the two alternated
 as memory of her first school at       
,lancaster1 and of the girls on the     
other side of the earth1 at ,melbourne1 
mingled with all her life of love for   
,,the ,,children4 ,she made notes when  
she read ,milton1 ,spencer1 ,mrs4       
,browning1 ,longfellow1 ,tennison1 but  
this little poem was literally bathed in
 her tears4 ,o4 ,a4 ,c4    ,when the    
lessons and tasks are all ended   ,and  
the school for the day is dismissed1    
,and the little ones gather around me1  
,to bid me good night and be kissed2    
,oh1 the little white arms that encircle
   ,my neck in a tender embrace6   ,on1 
the smiles that are halos of heaven     
,shedding sunshine of love on my face6  
,and when they are gone ,i sit dreaming 
,of my childhood--too lovely to last2   
,of love that my heart will remember    
,when it wakes to the pulse of the past1
   ,ere the world and its wickedness    

made me1   ,a partner of sorrow and of  
sin   ,when the glory of ,god was about 
me1   ,and the glory of gladness within4
    ,oh1 my heart grows weak as a       
woman's   ,and the fountains of feeling 
will flow1   ,when ,i think of the paths
 steep and stony1   ,where the feet of  
the dear ones must go2   ,of the        
mountains of sin hanging o'er them1     
,of the tempest of fate blowing wild2   
,oh1 there's nothing on earth half so   
holy   ,as the innocent heart of a      
child4    ,they are idols of hearts and 
of households1   ,they are angels of    
,god in disguise2   ,his sunlight still 
sleeps in their tresses1   ,his glory   
still beams in their eyes2   ,oh1 those 
truants from home and from heaven1      
,they have made me more manly and mild--
   ,and ,i know how ,jesus could liken  
,the kingdom of ,god to a child4    ,i  
ask not a life for the dear ones1   ,all
 radiant1 as others have done2   ,but   
that life may have just enough shadow   
,to temper the glare of the sun2   ,i   

would pray ,god to guard them from evil1
   ,but my prayer would bound back to   
myself4   ,ah6 a seraph may pray for a  
sinner1   ,but a sinner must pray for   
himself4    ,the twig is so easily      
bended   ,i have banished the rule and  
the rod2   ,i have taught them the      
goodness of knowledge   ,they have      
taught me the goodness of ,god3   ,my   
heart is a dungeon of darkness1   ,where
 ,i shut them for breaking a rule2   ,my
 frown is sufficient correction2   ,my  
love is the law of the school4    ,i    
shall leave the old home in the ,autumn1
   ,to traverse its threshold no more2  
,ah6 how shall ,i sigh for the dear     
ones1   ,that met me each morn at the   
door2   ,i shall miss the goodnights and
 the kisses4   ,and the gush of their   
innocent glee1   ,the group on the green
 and the flowers   ,that are brought    
every morning to me4    ,i shall miss   
them at morn and at eve1   ,the song in 
the school and the street2   ,i shall   
miss the low hum of their voices1   ,and

 the tramp of their delicate feet--     
,when the lessons and tasks are all     
ended1   ,and death says3 ,the school is
 dismissed   ,may the little ones gather
 around me   ,to bid me good night and  
be kissed4  #f ,i must have preached big
 sermons in these days2 for ,brother    
,benjamin ,coleman saw to it that ,i    
received #be4jj each time ,i went to    
,macedonia4 ,no thanks to him and the   
church1 their contribution was to help  
me through ,college4 ,o4 ,a4 ,c4        
,,chapter ,,vii4  ,i ,,will ,,go4   ,it 
was ,september1 #ahfg that ,oliver ,carr
 asked ,mattie ,myers to go with him to 
,australia4 ,for six months she         
hesitated1 refused1 wavered4 ,it was not
 a question of devotion to each other1  
but of loyalty to the life-ideal of     
each4 ,going to ,australia meant three  
or five or seven years away from        
,mattie's chosen vocation4 ,she weighed 
at its full value the argument that she 
could teach in ,melbourne2 of course1   
she could teach2 but teaching must      

necessarily be subordinate to missionary
 work4 ,mattie did not undervalue the   
importance of missionary labors2 but    
neither did she undervalue the          
importance of touching girls' lives in  
the school room4  ,in the struggle1     
,mc,garvey and ,williams1 as we have    
seen1 took opposite sides2 ,mc,garvey   
was for his pupil1 ,oliver2 ,williams   
was for his pupil1 ,mattie4 ,each looked
 at the question from his point of view4
 ,to the ,president of the ,bible       
,college1 what was more important than  
carrying the ,bible across the sea8 ,to 
the ,president of ,daughters' ,college1 
teaching was the exalted vocation of    
woman--,let ,o4 ,a4 ,carr do his man's  
work1 he argued2 and let ,mattie ,myers 
do her woman's work4  ,and there was    
brother ,joe1 who had done so much for  
,mattie--the brother whom she feared she
 might love too well--pleading1 arguing1
 exhorting4 ,let ,oliver go to          
,australia1 he insisted1 and when he    
comes back--at the end of his five or   

seven years1 then1 if you and he think  
as much of each other as you do now1    
why-- ,but the proposition seemed quite 
safe1 so he added with a stout heart1   
then you can get married6 ,but on this  
side of the five years1 ,no6 ,never6    
,and when words fail him1 and arguments 
need to be rested1 each having done     
service so often for want of new        
ones--,joe gets his flute and sits on   
the piazza with ,mattie1 these balmy    
spring evenings of #ahfh1 and plays and 
plays--plays always the old familiar    
melodies1 the airs that are wrapped up  
with her most sacred memories--,old     
,kentucky ,home1 and ,home1 ,sweet      
,home1 and--we fear--,bonnie ,blue ,flag
 that carries up the bars and would     
sweep the stars from the ,heaven of     
,union blue4  ,illustration3 ,i ,will   
,go4  ,all this is too much for ,mattie2
 her own conscience1 the advice of      
,williams1 that prince of instructors1  
as she calls him1 and beloved ,joe2 all 
cry out against ,australia4 ,she writes 

to ,oliver--  ,i pray that the love of  
,god may strengthen you to accomplish   
your holy mission1 and bring you back to
 waiting hearts in your own ,kentucky   
land4 ,i may regret the decision that   
prevents me from going with you4 ,i may1
 after you are gone1 regret that my hand
 is not to help you2 ,i weep to labor   
with you4 ,i do not know4 ,but ,i have  
tried to enlighten my conscience1 and it
 must not be disregarded4 ,go1 and give 
to the weary rest1 and to those that    
thirst1 of the well of living water4    
,though ,i must suffer1 there is a morn 
and land beyond it all4 ,go1 and work   
for ,god4  ,in these days when          
evangelistic work would permit ,oliver  
to come to ,lancaster1 he visited       
,mattie ,myers as her accepted suitor4  
,after her day's work in the schoolroom1
 she listened to his reading of ,lady of
 ,lyons1 and after the ,lady of ,lyons  
had had her say1 talk would drift to    
,australia4 ,it was at the conclusion of
 such a talk at ,mt4 ,carmel--how       

earnest we may imagine--when ,joe was   
not there--that we may take for         
granted--the young teacher rose with the
 solemnity of one who takes an          
irretrievable step1 having counted all  
the costs--,i will go6  ,those are her  
words4 ,and having spoken1 the matter is
 settled4 ,let poor ,joe play his       
flute-airs1 and look mournfully into    
space2 let ,williams say what he will1  
or ,pinkerton1 or anybody else4 ,mattie 
has spoken4 ,that means a wedding-day on
 ,march the twenty-sixth4  ,not that    
,joe understands how unalterable is her 
mind4 ,indeed1 he is in no condition to 
bear the truth4 ,that voyage seems to   
him a death1 the going out from his life
 of the dearest object of his           
affections4 ,he grows wild when she     
tries to make him understand her mind4  
,when ,oliver reasons with him1 he no   
longer answers with arguments1 but with 
mere incoherent passion1 partly anger1  
partly despair4 ,so this is what we will
 do2 we will go to ,mt4 ,carmel without 

telling ,joe1--yonder at the home of the
 sister1 ,mrs4 ,o',bannon1 where we     
first met1 whence we took that          
,spring-wagon excursion to the          
ineffective spring of ,a,esculapia4     
,mattie will take the stage that comes  
down to ,maysville4 ,oliver will be     
standing upon the pike1 out of sight of 
any kinsman's house4 ,mattie will order 
the stage to stop4 ,he will get in--off 
we will go4  ,and so we might have made 
our trip without incident1 without      
sorrow1 but for the unforeseen1 in this 
instance1 embodied in brother ,joe4 ,he 
suddenly appears1 wild and excited1     
having come in such nervous haste1 that 
his hat is left at home4 ,hatless1 but  
not breathless1 he stops that stage and 
holds it while he delivers himself of   
all his arguments1 seeking to bury      
,australia in an avalanche of           
spontaneous eloquence4 ,but the word    
,mattie has spoken before the blazing   
hearth she speaks on the open pike3 ,i  
will go4  ,why argue further8 ,clearly  

conscience nerves her to her purpose6   
,conscience--or love4 ,only one term of 
her first school so proudly begun--and  
she has put it in charge of another1 and
 is starting forth to merge her         
life-work into that of another--and he1 
a stranger not long ago1--a mere lad    
gathering the shavings in the wagon-shop
 to start the tavern fires4  ,events now
 come thick and fast4 ,we are getting   
ready for the wedding now4 ,oliver rides
 in a buggy with a schoolmate from his  
home town1 ,may's ,lick1 through        
,lexington to ,lancaster1 the home of   
,mattie ,myers4 ,many times he stops on 
the way for farewells4 ,the reception   
committee come forth in strength1 but   
their spokesman bursts into tears1 and  
,oliver is received with tears only4    
,albert ,myles1 his six-year schoolmate 
accompanies him to ,lancaster4 ,the     
wedding is to be at five in the morning4
 ,bells ring4 ,the village people1      
thinking there is a fire1 are roused and
 come forth4 ,learning that it is a     

wedding1 they troop to the church4 ,the 
spectators look on through their tears1 
thinking vaguely of the other side of   
the globe1 whither the bridal pair is   
presently to set forth4 ,albert ,myles  
performs the ceremony4 ,it is a scene of
 early light and tears4 ,mattie going   
away6 is the murmur--,mattie whom these 
folk have known from infancy--going away
 in early womanhood1 perhaps never to   
return6  ,from ,lancaster to ,lexington 
in a carriage2 and here ,j4 ,b4 ,bowman1
 the ,university necromancer1 gives the 
bride and groom a dinner in his home1   
once the home of ,henry                 
,clay1--,ashland1 where we have seen    
,walter ,scott admiring the picture of  
,george ,washington4 ,teachers and      
pupils of the ,university assemble1 and 
there is another mournful farewell4 ,in 
the afternoon1 from ,lexington to ,stony
 point1 and goodby to ,mrs4 ,fox1 that  
sister ,minnie of the ,may's ,lick days4
 ,at ,millersburg1 another              
wedding-dinner1 given by ,alex4         

,mc,clintock1 and then to ,may's ,lick1 
thirty-six miles by carriage4           
,illustration3 ,before ,we ,say ,goodbye
  ,here they remain over ,sunday--the   
last ,sunday in the old ,may's ,lick    
church1 in which ,eneas ,myall is a     
deacon1--the blacksmith who said when   
first hearing the news1 ,i am sorry to  
see you go1 ,ollie1 but it seems        
providential6 ,the elders of the church1
 the same who were elders when ,walter  
,scott preached there1 ordained ,oliver 
on that last ,sunday at home4 ,he was   
surrounded by old friends1 tearful but  
exultant in their sorrow4 ,there was one
 who could not come because1 ,i can't   
tell him goodby1 he said4 ,that was     
,oliver's hard task now1 to say goodby  
to all1 hardest of all to those of his  
father's house4 ,but he had nerved      
himself for the ordeal4 ,i could tell   
them all goodby1 he says1 until ,i came 
to my mother4  ,they go1 according to   
their plans1 straight to ,maysville1    
across the county1 to take boat for     

,cincinnati4 ,not alone do ,mattie and  
,oliver make that journey4 ,his mother  
is with them4 ,news runs before2 the    
,australian missionaries are coming6    
,the word is quickly passed back and    
forth1 that there will be services at   
the church4 ,when ,oliver arrives he    
finds the appointment made4 ,he rises to
 preach4 ,it is his last night in       
,kentucky4 ,before his vision stretches 
a long vista of uncertain years in a    
strange land2 years among strangers for 
this man who is blessed with so many    
friends4 ,but that sorrow is swallowed  
up in the deeper joy of presenting      
,christ to the people1 showing forth his
 loveliness for the last time in the    
land of his birth4  ,that sermon is not 
preserved1 for which we are1 we believe1
 sufficiently thankful4 ,if love in its 
fulness cannot be spoken1 much less can 
it be read4 ,there is a simplicity and  
an inner earnestness1 that is altogether
 baffling to the snare of leaded type4  
,whatever the subject of that sermon1   

,christ was in it1 and we care nothing  
for its divisions and its order4 ,we are
 thrilled with joy by that sermon--we   
who never heard it1--because we see the 
preacher's mother step forth--at        
last6--and stand before them all like a 
beautiful dream come true--or rather1   
like a spirit of love1 whose enkindled  
face flashes into the son's eyes the    
answer to his prayers4  ,not in vain1 as
 we have seen1 were her lonely vigils1  
sewing far toward midnight in the       
sleep-enwrapped tavern1 that her        
children might be clothed1 toiling      
before break of day1 the pale candle    
guiding her hands to heroic labor that  
her loved ones might be fed4 ,much does 
,oliver owe her1 and much is now repaid1
 on this last night in ,kentucky4 ,he   
baptized her2 and as she came up out of 
the water1 with his arm so tenderly     
passed about her1 she looked at him     
through her wonderful1 new-found        
happiness4 ,if all were as easy to obey 
as baptism1 she murmured1 it would be   

easy enough6  ,and so1--the boat to     
,cincinnati where ,w4 ,t4 ,moore's      
father-in-law1 he who is later to become
 ,governor ,bishop of ,ohio1--entertains
 the bridal pair in his home1 and other 
friends assemble for goodbys1--the      
goodbys at ,macomb1 ,illinois4 ,and then
 to ,new ,york to set forth for         
,australia1 by way of ,england4 ,on     
board at last--and under a sullen sky   
they stand on deck1 watching their      
native land fade--fade--till nothing is 
to be seen but a world of angry waves4  
,,chapter ,,viii4  ,,an ,,english       
,,primrose4   ,the voyage1 begun on a   
rough sea1 was continued over angry     
waves4 ,for seven days the ship was     
beaten by the winds4 ,it was the first  
time ,oliver and ,mattie had been       
outside of ,kentucky4 ,added to the     
distress of seasickness was the thought 
that1 after this passage to ,england1   
another voyage of almost three months   
awaited them before they could set foot 
upon the strange land selected for their

 missionary labors4 ,no wonder as the   
bride was borne farther and farther     
across the uneasy ,atlantic1 her        
thoughts went constantly back to        
,kentucky--,that far-off land1 she      
writes1 my beautiful1 sunny ,southland4 
,since the wedding-day1 there have been 
a marvelous succession of strange       
scenes--the trip to ,new ,york1 the     
hurried visits to points of interest in 
,new ,york and ,brooklyn1 the mingling  
with the rush and roar of ,broadway1    
and1 stranger than all these1 this      
helpless tossing in the cabin1 as the   
ship throbs and lifts dizzily in        
air--lifts to sink down and down1 as if 
never to ride the sea again4  ,that     
,twenty-,sixth day of ,march6 she writes
 in pencil with shaking hand4 ,it dawned
 so bright and beautiful4 ,in its soft  
morning twilight ,i knelt before an     
altar1 and laid thereon not only the    
heart of a bride1 but all that ,i had   
best known in childhood and in girlhood3
 ,home with all its tender associations1

 friendship whose face shone as the face
 of an angel--the sweet brier that shed 
its fragrance beneath my window1 the    
birds that sang for me1 the dear old    
'big spring' over whose cooling-ripples 
,i have so often stooped to drink--she  
remembers all these1 as the ship bears  
her farther from that ,america she may  
never see again4  ,our blessed land of  
liberty1 she says1 proud1 beautiful1    
glorious ,america6 ,truly1 the war is   
over2 and as she steams ever farther    
away from ,america1 its states seem to  
melt magically into one another1 and    
,north and ,south blend1 and become an  
indissoluble ,union4  ,one day1 less    
stormy than the rest1 the young husband 
crept from his berth1 hoping to find    
relief from days of nausea by greeting  
the keen wind4 ,he went upon deck1 and  
was presently engaged in conversation   
with a stranger4  ,he found that his    
companion was an ,englishman who1 for   
some time1 had been in business in      
,chicago4 ,he was much interested in the

 young man's missionary plans2 the      
shrewd merchant read aright the intense 
zeal which shone upon the ,kentuckian's 
face1 and which trembled in his voice4  
,i have a brother living in ,london1 he 
said2 when you go there1 you must go to 
his house4 ,i am on my way to visit him 
now1 and ,i'll meet you there4  ,oliver 
,carr had no intention of going to test 
the hospitality of a stranger1 and1 when
 he gave ,mr4 ,murby his card1 he       
supposed the incident closed4 ,on the   
eighth day out the ship touched at      
,queenstown4 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr--we   
must no longer call them ,oliver and    
,mattie1--took a ride on a ,jaunting    
,car--in which one sits sidewise1 while 
one's driver sparkles with ,irish wit4  
,a woman came to sell them fruit1 and   
offered to toss pennies for the         
difference between what she wanted and  
they were willing to give4 ,it was a    
jolly crowd that surrounded them1 and   
every ,irishman had a funny tale to tell
 the travelers4 ,before the ground      

ceased its semblance of rocking to and  
fro1 they were again on board4  ,when   
they landed in ,liverpool1 everything   
seemed new and strange4 ,they found cabs
 instead of busses2 but doubtless the   
difference was most marked because they 
found ,englishmen instead of ,americans4
 ,at the hotel they were visited by ,g4 
,y4 ,tickle and other members of the    
church1 and in the afternoon they       
crossed to ,berkinhead to visit other   
,christians4 ,on ,april #bith the train 
pulled out at #i a4 m4 for ,london4     
,mrs4 ,carr took a few notes1 as she    
looked upon ,mrs4 ,browning's world--the
 world of ,aurora ,leigh4               
,corn--undulating lands--rural          
improvements--daisies and primroses4    
,hedges--winding roads1 and footpaths4  
,drains in the lowlands4 ,winding brooks
 and brooklets1 through daisied meadows4
 ,fir-clad hills4  ,out of this primrose
 ,england1 the car glides into the smoke
 and fog of ,london4 ,london at         
last--how far away from the ,lancaster  

and ,stanford of one's girlhood6 ,how   
far1 indeed1 even from the dreams of    
one's girlhood1 this city that rises up1
 solidly real before the young woman's  
eyes6 ,it seems pulsing with the        
thoughts of those who represent1 to her 
mind1 the highest peaks of literature2  
,dickens and ,thackeray1 ,george ,eliot 
and ,robert ,browning1 ,bulwer ,lytton  
and ,macaulay and ,carlyle and ,de      
,quincy--all are living2 one might meet 
them any moment on ,oxford or ,regent   
streets1 where ,i took a promenade1 she 
says2 ,i find they surpass ,broadway in 
all but dress4  ,at #b3cj1 they are     
installed at the hotel2 at three1 they  
take luncheon and at four they have a   
visitor4 ,it is the brother of the      
,chicago merchant4 ,the merchant has    
written about the missionaries1 and     
asked that they be looked up--doubtless1
 suspecting that the overtures must come
 from the ,english side4 ,so this       
brother has come1 a ,mr4 ,murby of some 
distinction2 for does he not edit the   

music department of the ,cornhill       
,magazine8  ,he insists on the young    
bridal pair going to his own home2 for  
,o4 ,a4 ,carr1 in honor of the          
honeymoon1 has selected a hotel of much 
pretention4 ,you must go with me1 says  
,mr4 ,murby4 ,it is too expensive1      
staying at a hotel like this2 you shall 
make your home in my house4 ,my wife    
will take no refusal4 ,she will         
entertain you as well as she can--we    
have one baby in the cradle1 and another
 three years old4 ,i've brought the     
wagon for the trunks4  ,all this from a 
man and woman one has never seen before1
 and never heard of1 except from a      
chance fellow-passenger2 a man and a    
woman who do not belong to one's church 
and has never heard of one's friends6   
,but1 after all1 is it so strange8 ,if  
one travels through the world with eyes 
open for primroses1 and finds them      
growing along the wayside1 why should   
not eyes that seek brotherly kindness1  
find it blooming in many a stranger's   

heart8  ,away go the trunks1 and the    
hotel knows our friends no more4 ,two   
weeks are to be spent in ,england1      
before sailing for the opposite side of 
the globe2 and while they are in        
,england1 ,mrs4 ,murby leaves the baby  
in the cradle1 and acts as guide for the
 ,americans4 ,in their hurried visit1   
they could have seen little without her4
 ,she takes them to ride in the         
underground railroad1 shows them the    
wonders of the waxworks1 at the entrance
 of which stands ,george ,washington    
with extended hand1 and lingers with    
them in the ,british ,museum4  ,mrs4    
,carr's notes of her travels are meager 
in the extreme2 she was too busy        
observing and studying1 to write about  
what she saw2 but the necessary         
enlargement of thought resulting from   
extended travel was to take its own part
 in developing her personality4 ,chelsea
 ,hospital for old soldiers--,buckingham
 ,palace1 the ,queen's residence--,eaton
 ,square--,national school teachers     

trained for public schools--,duke of    
,york's school--,geological             
exhibit--rock crystal--wood             
carving--,porcelain plate1 #aehe1       
,francesco de ,medici--,venetian wine   
glass--,danish drinking-horn--,paul     
preaching at ,athens--,christ changing  
the water into wine--,peter and ,john at
 the ,beautiful ,gate--,hogarth's       
,marriage a la ,mode--,mrs4 ,siddons as 
,actress--,rosa ,bonheur--,edwin        
,landseer--,hyde ,park--,house where the
 ,duke of ,wellington                   
died--,parliament--,retiring ,room--,her
 ,majesty with ,mercy and ,justice in   
sculpture--,portrait of ,kings and      
,queens--,house of                      
,lords--,throne--,queen's chair on the  
right--,prince of ,wales on the         
left--,the ,prince ,consort--,woolsack1 
seat for ,lord ,chancellor in front of  
,queen--,table on which are laid all    
petitions--books beneath--just behind   
the table1 the bar--gallery for         
peeresses1 above--,peers' ,robing       

,room--,moses descending from the       
,mount--,lobby--,embarking of ,pilgrim  
,fathers--,charles erecting ,standard at
 ,nottingham--,central ,hall--,four     
windows--,lobby--,pictures--,square     
,hall--,commons ,speaker's              
,chair--gallery--,each side of entrance1
 seats for liberals and tourists--,st4  
,stephen's--,marble walls and           
floors--,on each side1 six stained glass
 windows1 representing scenes in life of
 ,stephen--,on the ,thames--,somerset   
,house--,waterloo ,bridge4  ,thus we    
might follow her from spot to spot1 as  
she hastily jots down the names of      
pictures1 and of the illustrious dead1  
amidst a catalogue of wonders seen at   
the ,crystal ,palace1 the ,india        
,museum1 the ,national ,gallery4 ,st4   
,paul--,whispering ,gallery--,sculptor  
above--,scenes in the ,life of          
,paul--,monument of ,sir ,john ,howard1 
,joshua ,reynolds--geometrical          
stairway--,crypt--,newgate ,prison for  
all offenders within the city's         

limits--,christ's ,hospital1 founded by 
,edward ,,vi4--,boys' dress in the      
costume of that day--,yellow stockings1 
leather breeches--,former palace of     
,henry ,,viii4 and ,cardinal            
,wolsey--,post ,office2 just across the 
street1 ,returned ,letter               
,office--,clock with two bells1 one     
',time1' the other ',death'--,publishing
 ,house belonging to the ,religious     
,tract ,society1 built over the place   
where the martyrs suffered under ,bloody
 ,mary--,guild ,hall--for public        
dinners--,grand dinner given to the     
,sultan--gold array--,the ,lord ,mayor  
conducts trials--,his                   
,residence--,monument to ,nelson4  ,may 
#eth1 the ,tower--,gateway--,entrance1  
moats--,bell ,tower--,bloody ,tower1    
porte cullis--,white ,tower1 #ae feet   
thick--,built1 time ,william the        
,conqueror--,norman spear used by       
him--,dress of #affe--;,gun taken by    
,french at ,malta and afterwards        
recaptured by ,english--,sir ,walter    

,raleigh imprisoned #ab years--,lady    
,jane ,grey--,queen ,elizabeth on       
,horseback--,fire1 #ahda--;,indian      
armor1 #agej--;,chamber from which      
,hastings was ordered to                
execution--,anne ,boleyn's prison in the
 ,tower--,beauchamp ,tower4 ,and so on1 
and on1 from one spot of historic       
interest to another1 the travelers      
absorbing all with thirsty minds1 the   
hostess tireless1 or at least           
uncomplaining--and at night the profound
 sleep of the sight-seer's utter        
exhaustion4  ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,murby took 
the stranger-guests to their hearts1 and
 treated them like long-lost friends4   
,the perfume of their gracious          
hospitality invested ,london with a     
tender aroma for these wanderers1 to    
such a degree that whenever they        
afterward thought of ,england1 they     
thought of disinterested kindliness4 ,on
 one of ,mrs4 ,carr's diary-pages1 is to
 be seen a faint brownish stain1 above  
which is written3 ,found by ,mrs4 ,murby

 on the streets of ,london--this        
primrose4 ,the flower has long since    
slipped away and crumbled to dust1 since
 it was placed there in the spring of   
#ahfh2 ,i should like to think that it  
blooms again on my page1 in honor of    
that quick and loving eye that          
discovered the primrose in the ,london  
streets1 and the gold in the strangers' 
hearts4  ,illustration3 ,conway ,castle1
 ,n4 ,wales  ,illustration3 ,beaumaris  
,castle1 ,n4 ,wales  ,on ,sunday1 they  
went to hear ,spurgeon preach4 ,it was a
 very ordinary sermon2 his statements   
had been made thousands of times before1
 and to none who listened1 were they    
new4 ,his manner was untheatrical1 his  
flow of eloquence was not intense4      
,everything was the essence of          
simplicity4 ,he began by holding up a   
rose4 ,he said that on his way to the   
tabernacle1 a woman had given it to him4
 ,he spoke of his happiness caused by   
this simple gift1 then of the beauty of 
flowers1 and of giving2 and1 as the     

audience of #c1jjj listened1 they were  
melted to tears4 ,his subject was the   
,accessibility of ,christ4 ,it was the  
tenderness in his words and voice that  
wrought the charm4 ,the singing was     
general2 it seemed that each of the     
#c1jjj took upon himself the            
responsibility of carrying the song     
through to its conclusion4  ,in         
,birmingham1 the ,carrs visited ,david  
,king1 editor of the ,harbinger2 he was 
the most prominent member of the        
,christian ,church in ,england1 of his  
day4 ,it was his custom to question the 
preachers who passed through his        
country1 to find out if they were sound4
 ,it was from him that ,mr4 ,carr       
discovered the ,british objection to the
 ,american custom of extending an       
invitation to the unsaved at the        
conclusion of the sermon4 ,it was also  
,mr4 ,king who went to the office to buy
 the ,carrs their tickets up to ,london1
 fearing they would not get second-class
 ones4 ,only fools and noblemen ride    

first-class in this country1 was his    
dictum2 the second class is just as good
 and costs half as much4  ,the following
 brief notes show us that ,mrs4 ,carr is
 in ,scotland3 ,holyrood--,rezzio's     
,slaughter--,residence of bygone        
monarchs--where ,lord ,murray held his  
,council--,residence of ,mary ,queen of 
,scots--where ,her ,majesty stops1 when 
in ,edinburg--,castle of                
,craigmillar--where ,mary sometimes held
 her court--,lochleven ,castle4  ,she   
was particularly interested in ,wales3  
,canarvon ,castle1 built by ,edward     
,i4--,first ,prince of ,wales born      
here--,april #be1 #abhd--;,chamberlain  
,tower1 occupied by the ,lord           
,chamberlain--,eagle ,tower1 so called  
because of the ,eagle ,sculpture on its 
turret4 ,prisoner1 or ,dungeon ,tower4  
,it is supposed this castle was never   
completed4 ,the banqueting hall1        
entirely destroyed--,in this castle the 
present ,prince and ,princess of ,wales 
were entertained during their visit to  

,canarvon1 ,april #bd4 ,on this         
occasion1 ,wellington ,tower was        
magnificently decorated4  ,north        
,wales--across the straight of          
,angelsey2 lodgings here4 ,ebb and flow 
of the tide--,hawthorne--a beautiful    
lodge1 the entrance to a                
residence--,suspension bridge over the  
,menia ,strait--,castle--,model village1
 ,bethesda1 near the slate quarries--#bj
 galleries1 each #fj feet high--the     
deeper the quarry1 the better the       
slate--,tunnel and railways with round  
rails and grooved wheels1 working with  
rope--,blasting signal1 first a red     
flag1 then the bugle4 ,each gallery one 
mile around the rail--#a1bjj feet from  
lowest gallery to top--#cjj men         
employed4 ,total wages per month1 #a1bjj
 pounds4--,penryln ,castle1 #af years   
building1 completed #cj years ago--,main
 entrance1 heavy iron gate1 swinging on 
massive pillars of stone1 with imposing 
ivy-clad arch above2 winding roads and  
bypaths2 through rare shrubs and        

gorgeous flowers of innumerable         
species--,main entrance to ,castle yard1
 a massive orchid gateway--,main        
entrance to ,castle1 massive            
cross-barred iron doors in base of      
tower--,four towers with the ivy1       
beautiful emblem of trust1 clinging to  
them all--,interior2 entrance hall1     
billiard room1 innumerable lobbies with 
rare ceilings1 main stairway1 bedrooms  
with antique furniture1 drawing-room1   
dining and breakfast rooms1 library1    
chapel for family worship1 minor        
stairways1 etc4--,family of #aj         
children1 two married and now in        
,london--will return here in ,july4     
,culinary apartments2 cook's            
sitting-room1 where he writes the bill  
of fare4  ,all these sights1 crowded as 
they are into a few days1 delay the     
departure for ,australia2 moreover1 the 
travelers have decided to take a        
sailship4 ,they have sufficient         
knowledge of the deathly throb of the   
steamer1 the quiver that sends          

unutterable faintness and nausea to     
those susceptible to seasickness4 ,the  
sailship1 they are told1 skims the waves
 like a bird--one hardly knows he is    
afloat1 or knowing1 feels himself       
lightly carried through the air4  ,mrs4 
,murby finds her new acquaintances have 
not left1 and writes to ,mrs4 ,carr at  
,liverpool1 on ,may #aeth1 ,i was very  
much pleased to receive your letter     
yesterday2 ,i had supposed you would be 
far away from ,old ,england by this     
time4 ,i just wish you had stayed with  
us longer6 ,there are lots of places    
besides the ,british ,museum1 ,i could  
have taken you to see4 ,you say you are 
to leave on ,saturday1 the #aith1 but   
the #aith is ,tuesday1 so we can hear   
from each other if we cannot meet4 ,if  
,i can find that church in ,camden      
,town1 for your sakes ,i will visit it4 
,the few days we spent together will    
always be remembered by us with         
pleasure4 ,i sincerely trust we may all 
be spared to meet again2 you may rest   

assured of a hearty welcome4 ,in the    
meantime we can correspond with each    
other4 ,i went to sit for my portrait   
yesterday2 it will be ready for me      
to-morrow1 and ,i will send it to you   
before you leave ,liverpool4  ,so writes
 the editor's wife--she who finds       
primroses in the streets of ,london2 and
 her letter comes as a last voice of    
love to one about to embark upon a      
sea-voyage of more than a hundred days4 
,,chapter ,,ix4  ,,the ,,long ,,voyage4 
,the long voyage was made on the        
,oriental1 ,captain ,myles4 ,mrs4 ,carr 
was the only lady who had taken         
first-class passage4 ,there was a rich  
young man on board1 who had been put    
under the care of a ,scot of mature     
years2 the young man was peculiarly     
susceptible to the temptation of strong 
drink1 but the ,captain reassured his   
sisters with the declaration that there 
would be no drinking aboard his vessel6 
,the young man wished to visit          
,australia1 one of the few countries he 

had never seen1 and ,duncan1 the ,scot1 
had undertaken his charge that he1 too1 
might have the treat of foreign travel4 
,england had not faded from sight before
 the corks were flying4  ,mrs4 ,carr    
found herself associated with a class of
 men who were far from corresponding to 
the degree of their tickets4 ,she felt  
the need of woman's society1 since her  
husband was the only man present who    
possessed that refinement and moral     
instinct which had been the breath of   
her life4 ,she was unable to hide her   
disapproval of the drunken orgies which 
the officers of the crew shared1 and it 
was particularly distressing to her to  
witness the deliberate ensnarement of   
the rich young man1 the evident scheme  
to make him drink that he might be      
fleeced at the card-game4  ,she and her 
husband put their sentiments into words 
of remonstrance1 which resulted in the  
,captain's making slighting remarks1 as 
they sat at table4 ,he took a spiteful  
pleasure in boasting in their presence  

that he wouldn't employ a teetotaler on 
his ship4  ,the first ,sunday out ,mr4  
,carr was asked to conduct the religious
 services4 ,he read the ,first ,psalm   
and made remarks relative to the godly  
and ungodly4 ,captain ,myles was        
enraged4 ,i supposed we would have the  
,church of ,england ,service1 he said at
 the conclusion2 we will have it after  
this2 ,i will read it1 myself4 ,and so  
he did1 when he was not too drunk2 in   
that case1 he had the ship's physician  
read it4  ,mrs4 ,carr sought relief in  
the association of the other women on   
board1 but this was peremptorily        
stopped4 ,if she wants to keep company  
with second-class people1 said the      
,captain with a sneer1 let her buy a    
second-class ticket4  ,the ship had not 
been many days from the ,british ,isles 
before the crew was almost completely   
demoralized4 ,drinking1 gaming1 coarse  
songs marked the hours of the night4    
,the sailors were at the mercy of the   
winds4 ,the vessel drifted over to the  

coast of ,africa4 ,it was becalmed two  
weeks under the intolerable heat of the 
sun's vertical rays1 while not a breath 
of air came to relieve the hot glare of 
the ,equator4  ,one day the ,captain    
exclaimed with the air of one who has   
made a terrible decision1 ,if we don't  
get wind to-morrow1 ,i will jump        
overboard6 ,the morrow came1 and there  
was no wind4 ,of course the threat of   
the ,captain resulted in nothing more   
dangerous than a cooling bath in the    
peaceful waters1 but the effect of his  
words1 and of his sudden leap from the  
deck1 were hard upon sensitive nerves4  
,mrs4 ,carr being denied the            
companionship of women1 found what      
relief from the monotony she might1 in  
writing letters1 and especially in      
writing in her commonplace-book many    
quotations from the poets4 ,she beguiled
 the time1 also1 in composing poetry    
which deals rather with themes of home1 
than with those of distant scenes4 ,the 
ship was wafted toward ,south ,africa1  

but it did not weigh anchor4 ,the only  
view we had of ,south ,africa consisted 
of some monkeys in the trees4 ,when the 
,cape ,verde ,islands were sighted1     
,captain ,myles was anxious to exhibit  
his skill by passing within a stone's   
throw of one on either side4 ,mrs4      
,carr1 rejoicing at the sight of        
something more human and picturesque    
than monkeys in trees1 took extensive   
notes3  ,june #ah4 ,the ,captain caught 
a large dolphin--change of color in     
dying4 ,breakfasted on flying fish4     
,june #ai4 ,sighted ,antonio and ,st4   
,vincent islands--passing between them4 
,cape de ,verde ,islands1 possessions of
 ,portugese4 ,antonio with its          
innumerable rocky points1 some losing   
themselves far above the clouds4 ,the   
white haze peeping behind1 lights up the
 acute angles of the points--the heights
 are dark1 frowning and barren1 with    
white bowlders at the feet4 ,the gray   
terraces in the distance look like      
leaping waters1 rushing onward to the   

ocean1 to kiss the breakers4 ,the shores
 are dotted with little villages whose  
houses are small and white1 with red    
tiled roofs4 ,around these villages are 
spreading greens along the shore1 and   
extending up the heights that1 through  
the glass1 are seemingly inaccessible4  
,yet these heights are laid out1 far up1
 with hedges into green fields and      
waving orchards4 ,the shore is indented 
with innumerable little bays1 and the   
magnificent ravines to which they point1
 fill the soul with awe4  ,st4 ,vincent 
is inhabited by the ,portugese1 yet     
there is not a spring1 or well of fresh 
water1 or a blade of grass in the whole 
island4 ,there are the signs1 far up the
 island1 of the washing of the waves4   
,what a glorious sight they would       
present in a storm6 ,here and there1 far
 up the heights are solitary rocks and  
vast strata left bare by the washing of 
rains and waves1 and blackened by the   
elements4 ,signals are hoisted opposite 
,porte ,grande in order that the        

,oriental may be reported in ,liverpool 
in #ab days4 ,two sailing ships are in  
the harbor4 ,the ,oriental passed       
between ,st4 ,vincent and ,shell        
,island4  ,one day the discovery was    
made that there was a stowaway on board2
 it was a young man with a crippled arm1
 who had slipped into a hiding-place as 
the ,oriental lay at the ,liverpool     
dock4 ,captain ,myles was all the more  
furious because he found himself        
helpless to rid himself of the          
unfortunate youth4 ,he compelled the    
stowaway to do the meanest labor1 and   
the hardest his crippled state would    
allow4 ,when the sailors encountered    
him1 they greeted him with oaths1 if    
they greeted him at all4 ,he was set to 
scour the decks1 and it was a task that 
had no ending4  ,the ,oriental drifted  
at last into the arms of the ,trade     
,winds which sent it whirling around the
 ,cape of ,good ,hope4 ,a furious storm 
came on4 ,the sea was lashed into       
mountain-peaks and was hurled in rushing

 torrents over the decks4 ,those sailors
 who were obliged to remain above1      
walked waist-deep in water4 ,the man at 
the wheel was tied to his post--the     
,captain was up all night2 but not1 now1
 at cards and drink4 ,the rumor spread  
among the passengers that the crew      
expressed their doubts of weathering the
 gale4 ,the rumor was founded upon      
truth2 the outcome was extremely        
doubtful4 ,there was the usual scene    
preceding a probable capsizing2 curses  
and prayers1 the sudden scream of       
agonized fear1 or of desperate appeal4  
,but we committed ourselves to the care 
of the ,all-wise and ,almighty1 and went
 to sleep4  ,morning came to show under 
its dim light a battered ship1 doors    
broken open1 cabins inundated from the  
seas that had poured down the hatchways1
 and spars swept away4 ,but suddenly the
 ocean grew calm1 the wind became fair1 
and the vessel headed straight for      
,australia4  ,they were at table when   
the cry arose above1 ,man overboard6    

,captain ,myers started up with an oath 
and went growling and storming to see   
into the matter4 ,it was the stowaway1  
who had been cast dizzily from the      
life-boat he was trying to paint by a   
sudden lurch of the vessel4 ,the        
,captain himself threw him a            
life-preserver and shouted1 ,stop for   
him1 he's too crippled to swim to it4   
,ship about6 ,man the life-boat6 ,in    
that boat brave sailors went down out of
 sight in the angry sea1 then like a    
bird sat on the crest4 ,our ship across 
sea rolled fearfully and the ,captain   
commanded the passengers to leave the   
deck4 ,the sailors in the boat returned1
 but the poor crippled boy could not be 
found4 ,and so the fair wind bore them  
on their way and the youth who had come 
from the unknown into our story1 dropped
 back again into the unknown4 ,was there
 any one to care8#g  ,one hundred and   
four days on the deep1 during which     
period1 land had been sighted only three
 times4 ,mrs4 ,carr continued to        

remember1 and to write poetry4 ,we find 
this1 ,written on board the ,oriental1  
,south ,atlantic1 ,august1 #ahfh3       
,homeland1 dearest1 gentle homeland1    
,dearest now art thou to me--           
,dearest1 for between us stretches1     
,dark and grim1 the cruel sea4    ,i    
have left thee1 home and homeland1      
,i have bade thy joys adieu   ,but1 my  
heart1 my heart is with thee1       ,for
 ,i know thy heart is true4    ,now ,i  
know how great thy soul is1       ,know 
its depths1 so deep1 so mild4   ,dear   
and tender home and homeland1           
,pray1 pray for your wandering child4   
,so ,i smile--the ,father's calling     
,to a land beyond the sea1   ,to the    
weary heavy-laden1       ,who are       
groaning to be free4    ,yield ,i8 ,yes1
 ,i once was weary1       ,heavy-hearted
 and oppressed2   ,yield because ,christ
 died to save me1       ,yield because  
he gave me rest4    ,with such glorious 
love to lead me       ,can my heart its 
thrilling tell8   ,home and homeland1 ,i

 have left you2       ,dear and tender1 
fare you well6  ,thus after her varied  
experiences1 we find the young bride's  
poetic fancy slipping past the grandeur 
of the ocean life1 its terrible storm   
and its terrible calm2 she remembers not
 now the beautiful castle with its      
orchid gate1 nor thinks of the family of
 ten who are to return to their         
peasantry in the stately rural life of  
,old ,england2 nor of the wonders of the
 ,british ,isles2 it is ,kentucky that  
claims her deepest love and sincerest   
tribute--,and if her ears ring to the   
melody of ,old ,kentucky ,home1 a voice 
seems to speak1 breaking its way through
 the music with--,go ye into all the    
world and preach the gospel to every    
creature4  ,at last1 the ,oriental casts
 anchor in ,hobson's ,bay4 ,the voyage  
is ended1 the experiences in a foreign  
land are to begin4 ,the ,carrs are urged
 by many of the second-class passengers 
to report the conduct of ,captain       
,myles1 but they let his insolence to   

them pass with the passing of           
unfavorable winds that have so long     
delayed the ship4 ,at this entrance into
 a new life1 they are saddened to       
discover that the ,captain has persuaded
 the rich young man to go back with     
him--to refuse even to land4 ,he has not
 yet been completely stripped at the    
gambling table1 and he is so valuable   
and tractable a victim1 that all arts   
are employed to feed his vanity and     
alienate him from his guardian4 ,it is a
 fearful disappointment to the sturdy   
,scot1 ,duncan1 to be deprived of his   
travels in ,australia1 but he will not  
leave his weak-minded charge2 so he     
turns his back on the land to see which1
 he has endured contumely and abuse1 and
 sails away to do all he can to save his
 ward from the ,captain's rapacity--thus
 furnishing the ,carrs with an example  
of fidelity to his promise made to the  
sisters of the unfortunate man1 which   
they treasure in their hearts4  ,a      
hundred members of the church have come 

from ,melbourne to ,hobson's ,bay1 to   
welcome the missionaries4 ,among them1  
the happiest is ,oliver's fellow-student
 at ,harrodsburg1 ,g4 ,l4 ,surber4  ,for
 many months we have been waiting to    
hear if some sacrificing ones would     
leave the ,united ,states for this      
country-- as he and ,gore had left1 a   
few years before4 ,then at last1 he     
writes1 we were rejoiced to hear that   
,brother ,o4 ,a4 ,carr and wife had left
 ,liverpool for ,melbourne4 ,our anxiety
 was to see them in health4 ,for a      
fortnight we read the daily papers      
eagerly1 hoping to hear from them4 ,at  
last our suspense was relieved by a     
telegram--the ,oriental had entered the 
,head1 which constitutes the entrance to
 the port of ,melbourne1 about #de miles
 from the city4 ,when ,i heard the news1
 ,i felt as ,i never felt before4 ,now1 
,i thought1 my long loneliness is to    
end1 and the cause of ,christ can be    
more fully met6 ,i could not help       
weeping1 but it was the weeping of a    

rejoicing soul4 ,my brethren in ,america
 do not appreciate their blessings4     
,what wonder that ,i1 cast1 as it were1 
upon a distant island1 almost alone1    
should rejoice at the coming of a       
co-laborer6  ,he continues3 ,after      
receiving the telegram1 ,september #bnd1
 a number of brethren with myself went  
to the port1 and took a skiff and went  
out to meet them4 ,after rowing about   
till nearly sunset1 we learned that the 
,oriental wouldn't cast anchor till the 
next day4 ,so early the next morning we 
again made our way to the landing2 by   
this time the brethren had begun to     
gather from all parts of the city and   
suburbs4 ,at eight o'clock that spring  
morning1 we went aboard-- ,it must be   
borne in mind that the ,australian      
spring begins in ,september4  ,brother  
,carr didn't know ,i was there until ,i 
laid my hand upon his shoulder1 and     
spoke to him4 ,picture that meeting1 if 
you can6 ,here in this foreign land ,i  
grasped the hand of the dear companion  

of my school-days6 ,what thrilling joy6 
,sister ,carr was soon rejoicing with   
us4 ,blessed be our ,heavenly ,father1  
for bringing them safely across the     
seas6  ,after a few moments their       
luggage was in our boat and we were     
rowing to the pier where we found a     
throng of brothers and sisters waving   
handkerchiefs1 and praising ,god for his
 goodness4 ,with what rejoicing the     
,christians grasped the hands of the    
missionaries1 as they stepped on shore6 
,there was no time for introductions1   
none waited for that2 but such a shaking
 of hands1 and welcoming of ,brother and
 ,sister ,carr1 was enough to move the  
angels to rejoice4 ,in a few minutes    
they had taken the train for the city2  
then in a cab ,i took them to my        
residence1 where they are now resting   
from their hardships1 soothed by the    
climate1 and delighting1 after months   
upon the deep1 in the bloom of peach and
 plum1 and the blossoming of our spring 
gardens4  ,thus ,g4 ,l4 ,surber writes  

home that ,benj4 ,franklin of the       
,christian ,church may publish the      
letter2 thus he writes1 until he        
corrects and polishes up the sentences1 
changing his ,we made our way to the    
landing to--we turned our faces1 etc4   
and scratching out waving handkerchiefs 
for something about open hearts4 ,but we
 make nothing of his careful remoulding 
of ideas1 nor give a snap for his open  
heart4 ,the handkerchiefs shall wave in 
this history--let them stream to the    
breeze1 each a white fluttering banner  
of peace and love1 raised above the     
heads of this vanguard of ,christian    
soldiers1 this beautiful spring morning 
of ,september #crd1 #ahfh4   #g ,just   
then1 it seemed that every one on the   
ship cared3 ,that drunken1 card-playing 
priest proposed to say mass for the poor
 boy's soul2 but ,captain ,myles said3  
,none of your foolishness here4 ,i could
 not escape the thought that he would   
have read mass1 if it had been in the   
,prayer-book1 whether foolishness or    

not2 for the ship's ,captain is ordained
 to read the church service1 or to      
appoint some one to read it4 ,that      
desire to do something1 springing from a
 feeling of helplessness and grief seems
 natural to mortals and cries out most  
pitilessly when faith is absent4 ,i     
doubt not it was as sincere as any      
prayer ever uttered when ,luther wanted 
to say mass for the soul of his mother4 
,i had seen the poor boy cuffed about   
deck1 driven to his hard task1 beaten   
with a broom1 and had remonstrated in   
vain4 ,between the priest with his      
rollicking ditties1 gambling and        
drunkenness and the boy there was a     
great gulf fixed on that ship4 ,no      
association with second-class passengers
 was the edict2 and was not the priest  
first-class8 and the boy1 what was he8  
,he had hidden himself among the boxes  
in the ship's hold at ,liverpool to be  
taken any where1 perhaps1 out of the    
world1 and so it was4 ,that boy1 that   
scene1 what led to it and what followed1

 ,mrs4 ,carr never forgot--,a neglected 
one1 a prodigal1 it may have been1 but  
still a human2 he needed something other
 than sacerdotal robes to show him that 
you are the servants of the ,most ,high4
 ,yes1 she cared and so do ,i1 even to  
this day4 ,o4 ,a4 ,c4     ,,chapter ,x4 
,,life ,,in ,,melbourne4   ,the ,carrs  
were formally welcomed to ,melbourne1   
the evening of the day on which they    
landed1 by a church tea meeting4 ,we    
shall speak of it in detail1 that a     
general notion may be gleaned of this   
popular ,australian church social4  ,tea
 on the ,tables at ,half-past ,six1 is  
the way the invitation-cards read4 ,we  
assemble in the basement4 ,there are    
four tables1 running the entire length  
of the ,chapel 7we are not to say church
 when speaking of a house47 ,not alone  
is tea on the tables4 ,here we find a   
bountiful repast1 garnished forth with  
beautiful flowers fresh from our        
gardens4  ,after tea1 we present the    
flowers to our guests of honor4 ,by     

eight o'clock we have eaten1 shaken     
hands1 talked informally with every one1
 and are ready to adjourn to the        
auditorium4 ,here we listen to the      
,chairman's address1 and the addresses  
of five others1 including ,o4 ,a4 ,carr 
and ,g4 ,l4 ,surber4 ,the congregation  
sings three hymns1 the ,singing ,class  
renders another2 we have1 also1 two     
anthems1 and1 after the benediction1    
feel that we have been to a ,tea        
,meeting1 indeed4  ,a few years ago1 the
 ,cause in ,australia was very weak4    
,now the pressing need is laborers4 ,the
 ,melbourne ,church is strong enough to 
divide2 ,surber will preach at the      
,chapel2 a hall will be rented for #djj 
in gold1 in which ,o4 ,a4 ,carr will    
preach2 thus forming a nucleus in two   
remote points in the great city4 ,the   
speakers at the tea meeting are strong  
in their faith1 and with good reason4   
,last year the church gave for home and 
foreign missions1 and local expenses1   
#djjj in gold4  ,we have never had any  

trouble with expenses1 because each of  
us does something--each one6 that is our
 secret of success4 ,far away in        
,adelaide1 ,gore and ,earl are laboring2
 here in ,melbourne1 ,carr and          
,surber--four evangelists for           
,australia4 ,but1 as we shall see1 all  
the preaching is not done by the        
evangelists4 ,and what of ,mrs4 ,carr8  
,at this very first tea meeting we speak
 of a school for ,sister ,carr4 ,we     
expect in a few months to see her       
devoting all her time to the high       
calling of teaching4  ,thus the new work
 is inaugurated4 ,not for the writer is 
the labor of seeking lodgings1 or a     
house which will serve also as a school2
 not for the reader the weary days of   
forming an establishment1 of settling   
down to the necessary routine of daily  
living1 of forming grooves in which one 
may run automatically1 the better to    
give the mind to higher things than food
 and a roof4  ,we are in a land where   
all is strange and new2 but when we     

leave it1 all shall have become         
familiar1 and much of it dear4 ,the     
reader need but glance along the peaks  
that rise out of the level plain of     
daily experiences--one tea meeting for  
him1 to fifty for the ,carrs2 a few     
characters to be learned from among the 
thousands who cross the paths of the    
young missionaries4  ,one might crowd a 
large book with the people who come and 
go1 never to return1 people important in
 their own orbits1 no doubt1 but quite  
futile to ours4 ,happy would it be for  
us and ours1 if all the time we scatter 
among the moving multitudes of life1 we 
might concentrate upon the few who are  
to abide in our hearts and memory4 ,but 
that is not to be while life is life2   
however1 it may be reasonably           
accomplished in book-land4  ,so1 of     
these hundreds and hundreds of letters  
before me1 whose signatures are but the 
labels of so many shadows--impersonal   
spirits who did nothing but write and   
vanish--we can select only those of a   

few men who seem to breathe the same air
 that envelops our principal characters4
  ,such a breathing reality appears in  
,john ,augustus ,williams1 so real in   
his profound faith in the dignity of    
teaching1 that the chalk-dust seems to  
swing above his head as a sort of       
material halo4  ,to him we find ,mrs4   
,carr writing3 ,we reached ,melbourne in
 early ,september1 after a long voyage  
of #ajd days6 ,contrary winds kept us in
 the ,irish ,channel a fortnight2 but we
 kept our spirits up1 resolved to be    
content-subjects of the winds4 ,we      
drifted within sight of the ,south      
,american shores4 ,we sailed many miles 
along the mango and palm-wreathed coast 
of ,brazil4 ,we are well and ready for  
work4 ,brother ,surber was very happy to
 see us1 and the church gave us a most  
cordial greeting4 ,i will write brother 
,joe a description of the voyage2 you   
can exchange letters with him4 ,i       
enclose a little flower and leaf of     
woodruff4 ,i plucked it at the foot of  

the south tower of the royal entrance to
 ,canarvon ,castle1 on ,menia ,straits1 
opposite ,anglesey4 ,in that castle1 the
 first prince of ,wales was born1 ,april
 #be1 #abhd4  ,t4 ,j4 ,gore writes to   
the newcomers from ,adelaide1 ,south    
,australia3 ,i am aware of your arrival 
in ,melbourne4 ,you do not know how ,i  
long to see you both--you come from old 
,kentucky--may ,heaven's richest        
blessings rest upon that dear state6 ,it
 is hard to realize that here so near1  
are two live ,kentuckians from my       
far-away home4 ,you will find conditions
 and customs very different here from   
,america2 but it is the ,lord's harvest2
 moreover1 ,melbourne contains a great  
many ,americans2 here in ,adelaide1 my  
eyes are hardly ever blessed by the     
sight of one1 but ,i console myself with
 the thought that though ,i am far from 
my native land ,i am still in the       
,kingdom of the ,lord4 ,no doubt you and
 ,surber are now talking over days of   
long ago1 at ,kentucky ,university4     

,brother ,carr6 how ,i should love to   
fold you to my heart6 ,tell ,sister     
,carr she need not fear the hot winds2  
they are quite harmless4 ,brother ,earl 
preaches to big audiences ,sunday       
evening at ,white's ,assembly room2 he  
has not found a church yet4 ,tell       
,sister ,carr she deserves great credit 
for leaving her home1 and coming so far1
 all for the sake of ,his ,word4 ,my    
thoughts go to ,keith in ,louisville1   
and ,albert ,myles in ,cincinnati4 ,i   
wish we had an evangelist in ,new       
,zealand4 ,write me something for the   
,pioneer 7which he is editing74 ,brother
 ,santo wishes you both much happiness  
and great success4 7,gore has found a   
sweetheart1--,brother ,santo's daughter2
 which gives him a firmer position from 
which to protest against homesickness47 
,at the conclusion of the first sermon  
preached by ,o4 ,a4 ,carr in ,australia1
 two made the good confession4 ,during  
his ministry in the colonies1 he found  
conversions the rule1 while the         

exception became rarer and rarer1 of    
preaching without visible results4 ,he  
had not found a house to rent when a    
letter was received from one who was to 
take an interesting part in his         
life--,thomas ,magarey1 an ,englishman1 
who had settled in ,southern ,australia3
  ,now that you are enjoying a little   
relaxation from the call of visitors    
upon your arrival1 ,i may venture an    
epistle of congratulation upon your safe
 arrival4 ,may you and ,sister ,carr be 
spared to present the old and glorious  
,gospel4 ,i read your article in the    
,review1 and laughed at the alarm of the
 church at ,birmingham1 lest any one    
should 'drop a penny in their           
collection4' ,we have very little cause 
for alarm upon that score1 here in      
,south ,australia4 ,i have heard that   
you both are suffering from             
homesickness4 ,i had that complaint for 
about twenty years4  ,unfortunately1    
every one in ,australia has suffered    
from it more or less and1 like          

seasickness1 it meets with no sympathy4 
,i never could understand why the most  
disheartening of complaints should      
receive no commiseration1 but so it is4 
,i cannot think your disease very       
violent1 for the best authorities say1  
those love home best who have least     
reason to do so4 ,thus the ,irishman    
suffers more from leaving his land of   
potatoes than the ,englishman his beef  
and plum pudding4 ,i need not tell you  
that the best remedy is constant        
employment4 ,this is not our home--we   
are all pilgrims and strangers4 ,my son1
 just now1 was instructing his little   
brothers and sisters upon ,astronomy4 ,i
 heard him say that from ,jupiter1 this 
earth of ours could not be seen4        
,humiliating thought6  ,illustration3   
,fern ,brake1 ,near ,melbourne          
,illustration3 ,fern ,tree ,gully       
,illustration3 ,australian              
,home--,martin ,zelius  ,illustration3  
,prince's ,bridge1 ,melbourne  ,the man 
who writes thus abruptly1 treading upon 

the tender susceptibilities of ,kentucky
 pilgrims1 calls for more than passing  
mention4 ,when hundreds flocked to the  
,australian gold fields1 ,thomas        
,magarey established a mill1 and sold   
flour to the prospectors4 ,gold was     
found in abundance1 and easily parted   
with2 but while others dug it from the  
earth1 ,magarey ground his meal and     
watched the yellow tide as it came his  
way4 ,twenty years of homesickness1 on  
his part1 was well rewarded4 ,he owned a
 palatial home in ,south ,australia1 was
 immensely wealthy1 and was a ,member of
 ,parliament4  ,his religious life was  
diverted into its present channel by    
reading articles by ,alexander ,campbell
 and ,walter ,scott in the ,christian   
,baptist4 ,his brother1 some time before
 the coming of the ,carrs to ,australia1
 perished in a fire at sea4 ,thomas took
 his brother's family into his own home1
 where all live as one4 ,his sheep      
ranch1 his cattle1 his horses1 his      
milling business1 his civic affairs1    

occupied the greater part of the day1   
but his evenings were spent with his    
wife and children4  ,on ,sundays two    
carriages took them to church in the    
morning1 to ,sunday-school in the       
afternoon1 to preaching at night4 ,at   
the ,governor's receptions1 the jewels  
of the ,magareys flashed with the       
costliest2 at church1 their garments    
were as simple as the simplest4 ,and if 
there was no preacher1 as indeed was    
usually the case in this land where     
preachers were so scarce1 ,thomas       
,magarey addressed the congregation1    
after the ,australian manner4  ,the     
better to understand this manner1 let us
 return to the ,carrs1 and take a brief 
view of their religious life4 ,as we    
have seen1 the preacher delivered a     
sermon only on ,sunday nights4 ,the     
primary object of the ,sunday morning   
service was the observance of the       
,lord's ,supper4 ,for the ,church of    
,christ1 in its desire to do just as the
 ,christians did in ,apostolic times1   

met on the first day of the week to     
break bread1 not to keep the ,sabbath   
day holy1 which they said had been done 
away1 with the old dispensation1 but to 
celebrate the resurrection of ,christ4  
,besides the communion service on       
,sunday morning1 there would be         
exhortations to religious life by       
laymen1 who had been appointed a month  
in advance4 ,these men took pride in    
preparing brief addresses which they    
hoped might prove edifying2 and so      
general was the custom1 that if the     
minister failed to be present1 his      
absence was unfelt4 ,such a custom      
tended to build up a permanent and      
fervid religious sentiment in the very  
heart of the congregation--a speaking   
,christianity which business men carried
 during the week into their shops and   
offices4  ,the congregation would       
assemble promptly in the morning1 and1 a
 minute or two before eleven o'clock1   
would sit with bowed heads4 ,exactly at 
eleven1 all would rise to their feet1   

and lift up some familiar hymn such as  
,safely through another week1 ,god has  
brought us on our way4 ,among the five  
hundred there were not a dozen silent   
mouths4 ,following the hymn1 a chapter  
would be read from the ,old ,testament1 
another from the ,new4 ,a third layman  
would announce a hymn1 usually reading  
it2 a fourth would lead in prayer4      
,still another would preside at the     
table1 to be followed by those appointed
 for short addresses4  ,the congregation
 preferred to take business affairs from
 their own number1 rather than from the 
minister4 ,as an example--,one morning a
 man rose and said3 ,since ,i have been 
hearing ,brother ,carr preach1 my ,bible
 has become a new ,bible4 ,i never      
understood it till now4 ,but there is   
one subject ,brother ,carr has          
omitted--the duty and privilege of      
financially supporting the preacher4    
,having delivered himself upon this     
neglected theme1 the man concluded3 ,you
 know me and my circumstances4 ,i am a  

shipwright4 ,i will give half a crown a 
week4 ,my wife will do the same4 ,there 
are many present who can do as well4    
,now1 will you do it8 ,and the audience 
rose and said1 ,we will do it6  ,before 
a house had been selected for the       
missionaries1 ,mrs4 ,carr went on a     
visit to some new-found friends2 as a   
result we have a series of letters      
between her and ,mr4 ,carr2 we trust our
 extracts from them will be both        
judicious and interesting4  ,mr4 ,carr  
to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,if my writing proves   
obscure1 remember ,i'm an obscure person
 in this country4 ,brother ,magarey left
 for ,ballarat4 ,we all went with him to
 the depot4 ,alex4 and ,vaney           
7,magarey's sons7 could hardly keep from
 crying when they saw their father      
leave4 7,alex4 and ,vaney are to board  
with the ,carrs in order to finish the  
course at the ,university of            
,melbourne47 ,i went to look at that    
house in ,clarendon ,terrace1 but       
behold1 it was let when ,i got there6   

,however1 the owner said he wouldn't    
have been willing to have you teach a   
school in it2 and besides1 it would have
 been too far out for the boys 7,alex4  
and ,vaney7 to walk4 ,there will be     
plenty of houses to rent when the people
 go to the seaside for the summer4 7,by 
which we mean ,december74  ,we must wait
 a little longer and be satisfied4 ,i   
trust in ,god4 ,we are to do a great    
work here1 if we will be humble and     
abide the ,lord's will4 ,one confession 
at chapel1 today1 five at the hall4     
,there are very large audiences4 ,your  
class did well4 ,they seemed much       
disappointed in not seeing you1 but they
 didn't come right out and say they     
preferred you as their teacher--mighty  
smart girls6 ,brother ,zelius says ,i   
must remember him to you4 7,brother     
,zelius' was the first house the ,carrs 
entered on landing at ,melbourne2 it was
 he who had sent ,o4 ,a4 ,carr the money
 to come from ,america4 ,years before1  
,zelius had stood penniless1 save for   

one shilling1 and entirely unknown1 in  
the streets of ,melbourne2 but he had   
done well since he heard and accepted   
the doctrine as presented by the        
,christians1 and it was natural that he 
should have a proprietary interest in   
his missionaries47#h  ,mrs4 ,carr to    
,mr4 ,carr3 ,we reached ,nutcundria last
 evening in safety4 ,the day is         
intensely hot 7,november #bi74 ,i do not
 believe ,i could ever love the         
,australian climate4 ,give me the sunny 
and starlit skies1 the balmy breezes1   
the snows and winter winds of old       
,kentucky6 ,there is abundance of ripe  
fruit here4 ,couldn't you come for me   
next week8 ,the trip can be made in a   
day4 ,i shall never regret placing my   
heart in your keeping2 for every day1 ,i
 see a new light shining in your        
character4  ,mr4 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr3  
,joy came this morning in the shape of a
 letter apiece2 yours from brother ,joe1
 which1 ,i see1 came by way of ,panama4 
,mine is from sister ,minnie--her news  

has touched and thrilled my inmost soul3
 ,jimmie has obeyed the ,gospel2 and    
dear old father1 working hard all day1  
and going to prayer-meeting at night6   
,poor mother6 ,i wish it were so that   
she could attend oftener4 ,vaney1 ,alex4
 and ,i were at the hall last night4    
,alex4 announced the hymns for me4      
,vaney says they would take me for a    
,catholic priest if it were not for my  
whiskers4 ,vaney is always cutting at   
me--we have a good deal of fun as we go 
along4 ,say6 ,i would like to see you   
monstrous well6 ,if you stay up there   
much longer please send me a lock of    
your hair6 ,i have a house in view--#c  
stories1 #h good rooms1 just behind     
,fitzroy ,garden1 near corner of        
,clarendon and ,george streets1 price   
#acj pounds4 ,all rates paid4 ,this     
house is beautifully situated2 from it  
you can view the ,botanical ,garden1 the
 ,bay1 ,emerald ,hill1 etc41 but it is a
 long walk from chapel4 ,i have spent   
about #c hours in preparing a lecture   

for the class1 tonight 7we will hear    
more about that class a little later47  
,mr4 ,carr again3 ,two confessions at   
chapel1 #c at the hall4 ,the work is    
going gloriously on4 ,i baptized #aj    
,friday night4 ,i am very busy4 ,there  
is great excitement4 ,the ,rev4 ,mr4    
,ballantyne has issued a tract on       
baptism4 ,the brethren want me to reply 
as soon as possible1 7presenting        
arguments for immersion74 ,i ought to   
get out the tract in #aj days1 so ,i    
cannot come up for you4 ,if ,miss       
,mc,intyre will come down in coach with 
you1 ,i will take pleasure in helping   
her on the way to heaven2 but ,i cannot 
come next week4 ,we have no house yet4  
,brother and ,sister ,zelius send love4 
,mrs4 ,carr1 to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,i walked   
out this evening to meet you1 and was   
disappointed4 ,soon after1 ,i received  
your letter2 of course ,i approve your  
conscientious course of conduct4 ,i do  
not ask your best love1 ,ollie1 that    
belongs to ,god2 ,i ask only its reflex4

 ,your fealty to our ,savior is the     
foundation-stone upon which my affection
 is built1 sure and firm4 ,how strong is
 my faith that that foundation-stone    
will ever stand6 ,next to my faith in   
,jesus1 it brings me the sweetest       
consolation4 ,i loved you better than my
 brother1 for ,i left him to follow you2
 but ,i am learning more and more each  
day1 how much better4 ,god knows how my 
heart yearns toward my dear brothers and
 sisters2 but you are dearer to me1     
,ollie1 than all the world beside4 ,in  
reply to ,mr4 ,ballantyne1 studiously   
avoid all offense2 that which offends   
will never convince4 ,may ,god bless    
your efforts for the promulgation of the
 ,truth4#i  ,illustration3 ,government  
,building1 ,melbourne  ,illustration3   
,take a ,look at ,diana and the ,stag   
,illustration3 ,favorite ,walk ,toward  
,barclay ,terrace  ,last ,friday morning
 we started to the ,spur1 an offshoot of
 the ,dandenon4 ,the scenery along its  
sides and summit1 is the most beautiful 

in ,victoria4 ,the gorges filled with   
enormous pines1 stately grottos1 and    
gums1 and peppermints1 are a rich feast 
to the aesthetic nature--but ,i saw     
nothing that so stirred the depths of my
 soul1 as the dreamy hills in autumn    
along the magnificent ,ohio4 ,about #dj 
miles below the ,spur we found good     
accommodations at ,heyfield1 which we   
enjoyed after the long jolting ride4    
,we rose at five the next morning to    
visit the ,falls on the ,thompson4      
,their beauty fully paid us for our     
mile's walk--it seemed three to me4 ,the
 ,falls are magnificent1 the lower      
plunging from #ej to #ajj feet1 the     
highest from #bjj feet4 ,we made our way
 with considerable difficulty along the 
whole face of the ,falls4 ,we had to    
cling to the saplings to keep from      
rolling headlong into the river4 ,i had 
a severe headache that morning1 and kept
 my hair hanging1 and the bush was so   
very thick1 ,i wonder ,i did not share  
the fate of ,absalom4 ,i hope you will  

get us a house as soon as possible2 ,i  
am anxious to have a home of our own--if
 that is possible in a foreign land4 ,i 
hear that ,mr4 ,surber is going to ,new 
,zealand4 ,may ,god bless you1 my dear  
husband1 that you may bring many into   
the ,kingdom4  ,shortly after ,mrs4     
,carr's return to her husband1 they     
received another letter from their      
fellow-countryman1 ,t4 ,j4 ,gore1 who is
 still afraid they may succumb to       
homesickness4 ,the manner in which he   
argues against such a feeling1 is very  
philosophical3 ,our home beyond the     
bright blue sea is lovely2 there a      
father and mother are longing to lay    
their arms about our necks and say1     
',welcome home6' ,what a happy meeting  
that would be6--but not to be compared  
to the welcome into everlasting arms4   
,brother ,carr1 we are going home--we   
have already embarked--we are on the    
ship1 the good old ship1 and swiftly we 
are speeding over the waves of life4 ,we
 have met a few storms1 but the ,captain

 said1 ',peace be still4' ,the barometer
 has been low1 but ,he said1 ',there's  
no danger in this ark of safety6' ,god  
only lent us our little homes among the 
hills of ,kentucky2 it is true they are 
dear to us2 but in a few years ,he will 
lend them to others of whom we know     
nothing4  ,a sentence farther on        
explains1 perhaps1 how the writer can be
 so calmly philosophical3 ,you have1 of 
course1 heard that ,i am married4 ,mrs4 
,gore begs to be remembered to you2 we  
cannot be as strangers3 ,you and ,sister
 ,carr must come over 7to ,adelaide7 to 
see us soon4  ,letters from home may    
have accented the stress of             
home-longing1 but others came that gave 
heart for the long separation1 such as  
the following from ,mrs4 ,drusie ,ellis 
of ,ghent1 ,ky42 ,last night1 ,i heard  
of your safe arrival in ,australia4 ,i  
loaned the paper containing your letters
 to a friend4 ,she brought it back with 
the remark that she could scarcely keep 
from tears while reading it1--and1 as ,i

 told ,doctor1 ',scarcely keep from     
crying1 indeed6'--when ,i could not even
 mention the subject in a steady voice6 
,the thought of your wife so nobly      
giving up home and country for the great
 work touches my heart deeply4 ,i read  
of her welcome with streaming tears1 and
 determined to write this word of       
,christian sympathy1 hoping to add one  
little thrill of joy to hearts so truly 
consecrated4  ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr      
decided to rent the house already       
mentioned1 in ,barclay ,terrace4 ,it    
commanded an extensive view of ,fitzroy 
,gardens1 through which they walked     
every day4 ,the way into the heart of   
the city led among its statues and      
greeneries4 ,one might sink down to rest
 on the benches beside the fountains1 or
 loiter on the rustic bridges1--only1   
alas6 there was little time for         
loitering6--inhale the fragrance of the 
perennial flowers1 and take a look at   
,diana and the ,stag before setting     
forth for ,chapel4 ,from the bandstand  

ascended1 ,god save the ,queen1 to the  
,southern ,cross4 ,who shall say what   
element of charm did not steal          
unconsciously from such beautiful       
surroundings into the hearts of the     
missionaries8  ,we have said there was  
little time for loitering2 the reader   
shall be the judge4 ,two nights in the  
week were devoted to the prayer meetings
 of the two churches2 one night was     
devoted to those who came to ,barclay   
,terrace to inquire after the truth1 or 
to learn ,christian duty2 a fourth night
 every week was the lecture-night at the
 ,collinwood ,church--the ,church       
established by ,mr4 ,carr2 on ,friday   
night there was a short sermon and then 
the baptizing of those who had already  
inquired after the truth and made the   
good confession1 and who had been       
instructed as to the purpose of baptism1
 and what would be expected of the      
subject as to attendance at church1     
contributing1 and the governing of one's
 household4  ,as the weeks passed by1   

the history of the ,friday nights       
presented the appearance of continuous  
protracted meeting4 ,rarely1 if ever1   
did a week pass without the application 
and acceptance of from one to twenty    
members4 ,nor did those who joined the  
one body1 the church1 enter upon the    
crest of an excitement-wave1 or with a  
superficial notion of what it meant to  
be a ,christian4 ,the following note    
will show that converts were not to be  
obtained with undue haste3  ,the        
following was passed at the ,business   
,meeting of #bcrd ,march1 #ahfi3 ',that 
this ,meeting considers it inexpedient  
for our ,evangelists to invite public   
confessions1 seeing they regard it      
desirable to have conversation before   
baptism4'                               
,,church ,,secretary4  ,besides the work
 already indicated1 there was an        
,improvement ,class each week1 composed 
of young members of the church1 who read
 essays1 and made short talks1 to be    
criticised by the minister4 ,from this  

class were selected those who addressed 
the congregation on ,sunday morning4    
,these young men were closely bound by  
affection to their leader1 ,mr4 ,carr4  
,there was something perennially young  
in his own bosom1 that responded to     
their youth4  ,his health was delicate1 
as it had been in ,lexington1 and the   
never-relaxing labors of every night in 
the week1 might have made another       
prematurely old and solemn4 ,but his    
boarders1 ,alex4 and ,vaney ,magarey1   
could have told of many a time when he  
slipped to the attic with them for a    
hasty game of marbles4 ,such innocent1  
though clandestine sport1 heartened him 
up1 no doubt1 to deal the more telling  
blows against ecclesiastical foes4 ,who 
in reading his trenchant arguments on   
the subject of ,baptism1 would have     
suspected that at that very moment the  
marbles might be clinking in his        
pocket6#aj  ,no wonder the young men    
felt his spirit akin to their own6      
,after prayer-meeting they would walk   

with him part of the way1-- which       
usually extended quite across the fifty 
acres of ,fitzroy ,gardens1 and up to   
his very door4 ,and as they walked they 
talked1 talked with all the earnestness 
of youth1 when youth is in earnest4     
,illustration3 ,waiting in ,melbourne1  
alone ,will go to ,hobart  ,one night   
when the conversation had become        
unusually absorbing they stopped and1   
looking up1 found they had halted before
 the ,model ,school ,building1--which   
corresponds to an ,american college4    
,the subject of acquiring an education  
had often engaged them before1 but now  
ideas came to a focus4  ,i have a calf1 
and some carpenter's tools1 said one    
young man1 addressing ,mr4 ,carr        
earnestly2 ,i will sell them1 and buy   
clothes and books if you will teach me4 
,without hesitation the minister cried1 
,come on4  ,may we come too8 chorused   
the others4  ,yes6 ,little did they     
realize how much that consent meant2 how
 much of energy1 of which there was no  

surplus2 how much of nerve-drain and    
anxious thought4 ,a number of young men 
decided to come to ,barclay ,terrace    
every day4 ,they came and ,mr4 ,carr    
gave them the same course he had taken  
at ,kentucky ,university4 ,this was1    
indeed1 paying back to the world with   
interest1 the good that the world had   
bestowed6 ,when ,eneas ,myall carried to
 ,carr's tavern the money that started  
,oliver ,carr on his road to the        
,university1 little did he dream of the 
beneficent influences he was setting in 
motion on the other side of the globe6  
,it is so with every good deed4 ,one    
never sows a word of love beneath the   
northern skies1 but he may find it      
blooming some day1 beneath the ,southern
 ,cross4  ,mr4 ,carr's boys had studied 
some--not much--at the public school4   
,they knew something of ,english        
grammar2 he did not teach it to them2 he
 taught ,greek grammar1 and it is       
needless to say that they became good   
grammarians4 ,they read the ,new        

,testament in ,greek4 ,they were taught 
rhetoric and logic from ,mr4 ,carr's    
notes1 taken at the ,university4 ,among 
the class was that ,t4 ,h4 ,rix1 who is 
today a successful evangelist4          
,another--he who sold his calf and tools
 to buy books1--stands today as the best
 educated man in the ,church of ,christ1
 in ,australia1 next to ,t4 ,j4 ,gore4  
,he is ,g4 ,b4 ,moysey4 ,who will say he
 would better have kept his calf8  ,thus
 we find ,o4 ,a4 ,carr becomes a        
schoolteacher1 though his purposes were 
all set otherwise4 ,it seemed forced    
upon him by his consciousness of the    
good he might do4 ,we are to find the   
same thing occurring again and again in 
his life4 ,duty seemed ever calling him 
to the desk when his own heart yearned  
for the pulpit4 ,as yet he was          
able--both to preach and teach with all 
his might4 ,unfortunately that might was
 not based upon physical resources4  ,on
 the other hand1 ,mrs4 ,carr must always
 teach1 wherever she was1 because       

teaching was a part of her being4 ,she  
had opened a class for young ladies in  
her home4 ,her accommodations compelled 
her to limit the number of pupils to    
about twenty2 but1 on account of this   
limitation1 she was enabled to select   
those girls who were most refined1 and  
who promised the best spiritual reward  
for her labors4 ,this was her second    
school2 and while it was by no means so 
pretentious as her college at           
,lancaster1 the results were doubtless  
more far-reaching4  ,her system of      
education1--indeed1 her conception of   
education--differed materially from that
 found in ,melbourne4 ,if her method    
seemed radical to the most conservative1
 it filled with delight those open to   
impressions of new truth4 ,mrs4 ,carr's 
scheme to educate a girl was not to fill
 her with facts1 but to develop her mind
 and heart4 ,this has not always been   
understood by those who patronized her  
various schools4 ,the commonplace test  
of how much a pupil knows1 did not      

always apply to her classes4 ,she took  
pains to teach them how to preserve     
their health1 how to deport themselves1 
how to preserve their modesty and       
integrity1 how to become forces in the  
world4  ,in a word1 she did not labor to
 root in those tender minds a multitude 
of facts which the passing of time      
sweeps away2 it was her desire to form  
of each impressionable girl1 a noble    
woman4  ,it was her conviction that no  
higher work exists in the world than the
 development of high ideals of          
womanhood4 ,if she could have reached   
young girls in any other way1 in daily  
living1 she could have dispensed        
altogether with the school4  ,the school
 was but a means to the end of shaping  
lives4 ,there were1 perhaps1 girls in   
,melbourne at that time1 who were       
learning more facts than ,mrs4 ,carr's  
girls were learning2 who might1 it may  
be1 have answered with greater          
exactitude if questioned as to the      
dimensions of the planets' orbits1 or as

 to the geological eons4  ,these things 
did not seem to her of supreme          
importance4 ,what to her mind1 mattered1
 was to make world-blessings of her     
girls4 ,this was so deep a conviction of
 her soul1 that she had little patience 
with literalism4  ,it is necessary to   
understand her purpose1 in order to     
comprehend the relationship between her 
and her pupils4 ,when ,mrs4 ,carr found 
in any girl those true and enduring     
qualities which1 however much neglected1
 promise a harvest of love1 and         
gratitude1 and noble deeds1 and         
thoughts1 there were no pains too great 
for her to take1 to develop that soul4  
,but when it was her lot to be thrown   
with a girl whose life-purposes were all
 antagonistic to the sphere of the      
cultured woman--a girl who suspected    
insincere motives1 and watched for      
faults1 and hardened herself against    
sweet influences1 ,mrs4 ,carr felt that 
she could do more good by giving her    
time to more susceptible spirits4  ,thus

 it came about that the pupil who       
reached after the higher standards of   
life1 found ,mrs4 ,carr a woman of      
motherly tenderness2 while she who drew 
back1 found her cold and unsympathetic4 
,it is difficult to learn the real      
character of any teacher from her       
pupils1 unless we take into             
consideration the character and point of
 view of those interrogated4 ,the pupil 
in sympathy with the instructress will  
praise her1 one in rebellion will blame 
her4 ,it seems necessary to say this1   
because ,mrs4 ,carr has often been      
misunderstood and misrepresented4 ,an   
obdurate and intractable pupil usually  
has a family to espouse her view of the 
case2 and the neighbors share the       
impression of the family2 and visiting  
guests share the opinions of the        
neighbors4  ,it is not always that the  
pupil wilfully misrepresents2 indeed1 in
 most cases1 she does not intentionally 
do so2 but she cannot understand1       
because her heart is not in accord4 ,it 

would be a strange thing if any teacher 
should be universally praised by her    
pupils1 and the suspicion would         
inevitably arise that she had not done  
her full duty4  ,on one point all of    
,mrs4 ,carr's pupils are agreed2 that   
she was a splendid disciplinarian4      
,whether you loved her or feared her1 or
 disliked her1 she made you keep good   
order while under her instruction4  ,as 
to her success in school work at        
,melbourne1 we shall content ourselves  
with letting the consul speak a good    
word for her1 then relate a little      
incident4  ,geo4 ,r4 ,latham to ,mrs4   
,carr3 ,knowing the respectable         
character of the colleges in the ,united
 ,states of which you are a graduate1   
and feeling a lively appreciation of    
your thorough education1 finished       
accomplishments1 and intellectual and   
moral worth1 and learning that you have 
opened a select school for young ladies 
in this city 7,melbourne7 ,i most gladly
 consent to the use of my name as       

reference4  ,the terms per quarter for  
board and tuition were from ,l#ah-ah-j  
to ,l#aj-aj-j4 ,mrs4 ,carr taught the   
following3 ,english ,literature1        
,mathematics1 ,natural ,science and all 
,english branches usually taught1       
,italian1 ,french1 ,german1 ,pianoforte1
 ,guitar1 ,drawing and ,painting1       
,leather ,work1 ,wax ,flowers4 ,she was 
the only teacher and1 we may conclude1  
had her hands full6  ,illustration3     
,port ,elliott--,farthest ,point ,south 
,the anecdote we referred to1 related to
 one of ,mrs4 ,carr's pupils1 ,ettie    
,santo4 ,her father1 ,philip ,santo1    
lived in ,south ,australia4 ,he was a   
member of ,parliament2#aa and a rich    
iron monger4 ,he dealt largely in       
imported agricultural implements4 ,he   
had the same love of family that ,thomas
 ,magarey exhibited2 every day at three 
he would go out to his splendid         
residence in the suburbs1 and play an   
hour with his children4 ,then after     
exercising1 he would go to the library4 

,after tea he wrote and read two hours1 
then assembled the family for           
,bible-reading and prayer4 ,ettie       
boarded with ,mrs4 ,carr4 ,it was the   
first time she had stayed away from     
home4 ,she was a very quiet1            
undemonstrative girl4 ,her father came  
to ,melbourne to visit her4 ,one day he 
showed ,mrs4 ,carr a letter he had      
received from his daughter before his   
arrival4 ,in the body of the letter was 
this sentence3  ,father1 ,i love you2 ,i
 have never told you so2 ,i can write it
 better than ,i can speak it4  ,this is 
narrated as an illustration of ,mrs4    
,carr's educational ideas4 ,to bring    
love into being2 or1 as in the case of  
this noble-minded girl1 where love      
already existed1 to give that love a    
voice--to teach faithful service and    
strengthen holy aspirations1 these were 
her imparted lessons4 ,the soul which   
could not receive them might be hardened
 against her1 but nevertheless she sowed
 the seed2 with her1 teaching was a     

religious exercise4  ,at this busy time1
 while ,mrs4 ,carr had her girls1 and   
,mr4 ,carr his boys1 to say nothing of a
 thousand outside duties to be          
performed1 a character entered their    
lives like a good fairy4 ,janie ,rainey 
was born and reared in ,scotland4 ,her  
sister married a gentleman that is to   
say1 a man of means1 and for a time     
,janie lived with them4 ,but it soon    
became borne in upon her that her       
brother-in-law looked upon her as a     
burden to his household4 ,she knew a    
,presbyterian minister in ,melbourne1   
who1 in answer to her letter1 encouraged
 her to come to ,australia1 where she   
could find plenty of work4 ,she made the
 long voyage1 and found asylum in his   
house1 until she should find regular    
employment4  ,one day she appeared at   
the house in ,barclay ,terrace4 ,beneath
 her sunbonnet was to be seen a bright  
face1 and shrewd yet kindly eyes4 ,as   
she sat in the hall in her plain but    
scrupulously neat dress1 ,mrs4 ,carr was

 charmed by her ,scotch accent1 and by  
her manner of dignified dependence4     
,janie explained that she had heard     
,mrs4 ,carr needed a servant2 she had   
come to keep the house for her1 to wash1
 to cook1 to do anything4 ,she was      
received with joy4 ,as ,mrs4 ,carr      
afterward said1 ,it was love at first   
sight4  ,before the ,carrs came to      
,melbourne1 ,janie had gone to hear ,mr4
 ,surber preach4 ,the first time ,i     
heard him1 she said1 ,i knew it didn't  
sound like the kirk6 ,i could understand
 him2 it was so plain6 ,when she had    
heard him preach about half a dozen     
times1 she said1 ,i must confess my     
faith6 ,she became an intelligent       
,christian4 ,she knew a great part of   
the ,bible by heart4 ,i have read the   
,new ,testament all my life1 she        
declared1 and never knew what it meant  
before4  ,janie worked for the ,carrs   
all the time they staid in ,melbourne4  
,she regularly attended the ,sunday     
services1 the prayer meetings1 and the  

other gatherings of the church4 ,from   
her wages she gave one shilling every   
,sunday morning4 ,she read the church   
papers and the daily papers while the   
,carrs and their boarders were at       
breakfast4 ,her room was kept clean and 
inviting1 and a talk with her was       
refreshing2 seldom did a preacher visit 
the house1 who did not ask to see       
,janie4  ,mrs4 ,carr would sit in the   
kitchen to hear ,janie read ,bobbie     
,burns1 with the proper accent4 ,the    
servant had seen the places described in
 the poems2 she had known people who had
 known the poet4 ,she knew anecdotes    
about him that have never seen the      
print4 ,she told about a working girl   
who1 on looking into his room1 found him
 stamping upon the floor1 and rushing   
back and forth like mad2 how she had    
rushed down stairs crying1 ,he's        
daft6--how ,burns on hearing the cry    
exclaimed1 ',daft6' the very word ,i was
 trying to think of6--and how he slapped
 his knees1 and fell to writing4  ,it   

was ,janie's delight to take care of    
,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr1--to stand between 
them and those innumerable details of   
daily life1 that sap the energies1 that 
waste the time1 and ward off the        
essential objects of life for those who 
have no ,janies4  ,she would go to      
market seeking to tempt our appetites4  
,she would say1 ',oh1 you don't eat     
enough to keep a bird alive6' ,she      
petted us4 ,no one regarded her as a    
servant except herself--but she always  
held herself to be one4 ,she was1       
indeed1 more of a companion4 ,a         
beautiful character--one who did her    
duty because it was duty1 and who loved 
us till we felt that she was one of the 
family4 ,her disposition was bright and 
cheerful4 ,we often found her reading   
while the kettle boiled1 or going about 
her work with an open book propped upon 
the kitchen table4 ,one day ,i went into
 the kitchen and found her laughing     
outright4 ',what is it1 ,janie8' ',oh1  
,i was laughing at what ,mark ,twain    

says about the ,turkish bath6' ,what    
ever concerned us seemed as sacred in   
her eyes as a religious matter1 and she 
would guard it as her own interests4    
,hers was a life in which we could see  
no fault4  ,a high testimonial to one   
who serves for years in one's kitchen6  
,a testimonial rarely given1 rarely     
merited4 ,let this be an excuse1 if one 
is needed1 for giving so much space to  
the simple maid from ,scotland4 ,here is
 one whose soul bursts through the      
vapors of false pride and unlovely shame
 that does so much to soil the beauty of
 the poor4 ,here is one who recognizes  
the dignity of service1 and who shows by
 humble acts that mark each hour1 she   
loves her neighbor as herself4  ,and now
 that we have one so efficient and      
willing to admit the visitors1 to cook  
the meals and to do the washing1 let us 
retire to the library and1 without fear 
of interruption1 enjoy a sheaf of       
letters1 which lie before us2 not1      
indeed1 drinking them to the very lees1 

but sipping here and there4 ,our word   
for it1 if the reader be in the mood for
 mail-opening1 he shall not go          
unrewarded4  ,here is a young man       
writing from the ,agricultural ,college 
of ,kentucky ,university1 whom ,carr and
 ,surber have evidently advised to go   
thither for a ,christian education3 ,i  
suppose when ,i told you ,i would come  
here to school1 you thought ,i would    
never come4 ,after hard work ,i got to  
,england1 and ,i worked hard before ,i  
got here2 but when there is a craving   
for an education1 no toil or labor will 
hinder that young man4 ,i come to study 
the scriptures1 to be able to go into   
the world to preach the ,gospel4 ,i work
 five hours in the ,a4  ,m4 ,college on 
the farm1 and the machine shop4 ,i got  
to this place without one cent of money4
 ,what do you think my first work here  
was8 ,dropping potatoes--,sir2 yes1 sir6
  ,j4 ,b4 ,myers to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i     
promised to tell you about the changes  
in ,lancaster1 7from which we may glean 

a little local coloring of ,mattie's old
 home47 ,the railroad runs right by the 
old ,methodist church1 out by the       
cemetery2 indeed1 it took away one      
corner of the old brick building4 ,the  
passenger depot is on the ,crab ,orchard
 pike4 7,then he enumerates all the new 
houses on the various pikes1 tells what 
girls are going to set out1 and remarks 
that he pays more attention to ladies   
since his sister's departure47  ,i am   
still in the old room over ,brother     
,sweeney's store6 ,i have furnished it  
up with a #cj bookcase1 etc4 ,i have    
resigned my position in the ,male       
,academy to teach a public school no    
more forever6 ,i can't live that        
way--too much time consumed in watching 
the pupils1 and making them keep        
order1--and the rest of my time1 too    
worried to throw my soul into the work1 
and give efficient instruction4 ,i begin
 a private class of about #bj choice    
boys1 right away4 ,then about some who  
have died2 some who have married2 a     

foolish young girl who has kept her     
marriage a secret2 and a poor gentleman 
who is growing too fleshy1 and the fond 
hope that--,when you and ,ollie come    
back to old ,kentucky1 you must keep    
house1 and ,i will board with you6 ,a   
year of your absence is about gone4 ,may
 the three pass speedily6 ,yea1 let them
 all pass rapidly that you and ,ollie   
may be returned to me4 ,how ,i love you 
my dearest sister6 ,tell ,ollie ,i love 
him2 too1 and am proud of him6 7,very   
different does ,brother ,joe talk1 now  
that he no longer stands hatless upon   
the pike1 stopping our stage coach67    
,here is a letter from our blacksmith1  
,eneas ,myall3 ,i would not think of    
writing to you2 but ,i know what it is  
to be far from home1 and the pleasure of
 receiving a letter when among          
strangers2 and besides1 it is my duty to
 answer your letter4 ,i regret very much
 that you did not get to see any of my  
folks when you were in ,england4 ,i wish
 you could see more of ,england4 ,i am  

satisfied it is the greatest opening for
 primitive ,christianity in the world4  
,ollie1 this will be rather a broken    
letter as ,i am talking1 selling and    
writing all at the same time4 ,we are   
getting along religiously1 as well as   
common4 ,it looks a little odd to see   
your father and mother attending church2
 but we are all glad to see it4 ,your   
father is always in his place1 and so is
 your mother1 when she can get there4   
,and let me tell you1 you are not       
forgotten in our prayers4 ,we hardly    
ever have a meeting that you are not    
bidden ,god's speed4 ,brother           
,bartholomew of ,philadelphia was here1 
raising money to sustain a missionary in
 that city6 ,not very many were present1
 so our contribution of #fj was quite   
liberal1 ,i assure you4 ,our envelope   
system is working-well4 7,introduced    
into ,may's ,lick ,church by ,o4 ,a4    
,carr1 who visited personally every     
member and gave each fifty-two envelopes
 in which to place the promised weekly  

offering for a year74  ,and now1 ,ollie1
 as ,i am about to close--if we meet    
never again here1 let us meet in        
,heaven4 ,let us be faithful to our     
,god4 ,my faith bids me go forward in   
the unshirking discharge of my duty1 and
 the promise will be mine4 ,all the     
,myalls send their love to you and your 
lady4 ,now1 farewell for the present4   
,god bless you both4 ,thus the          
blacksmith who beats his money out of   
iron to spread the ,gospel--writing1    
talking1 selling1 all at once--the      
hammer in his hand1 ,god in his heart4  
,miss ,mary ,whittington writes from    
,daughters' ,college1 and we should find
 interest in a picture of the scene     
where ,mattie ,myers received her       
education2 ,i have a faint idea of how  
you feel1 ,mattie1 off there in         
,australia1 for ,i took a four weeks'   
trip to ,illinois1 and cried to get back
 to ,president ,williams and the        
college4 ,you need a correspondent like 
myself1 to give you little suggestive   

trifles of the college life4 ,we have a 
baby here1 wonderful1 blue-eyed and     
spiritual1 not a girl1 alas6 but a      
boy--,prince ,whittington ,williams--the
 ',whittington' is for an old maid who1 
having no children of her own1 is       
thankful when people sometimes name them
 for her--the writer1 in a word4        
,mattie1 ,i hear the supper bell2 ,i'll 
run down and eat some battercakes1 and  
drink a cup of coffee--don't you wish   
you could hear the supper-bell once     
more8  ,well1 ,i had my supper in the   
same dining-room where you drank tea1   
and dieted1 of yore1 but it was not upon
 the same old oilcloth1 for now we have 
a table cloth6 ,moreover the room is    
neatly carpeted1 and the old chairs have
 been carried into the school rooms to  
make way for new ones4 ,the girls' rooms
 have new carpets all over them--no     
naked space under the bed--and have been
 furnished with neat walnut toilets1 and
 full tin sets for the washstands2 and  
,i must not forget the red oil-calico   

curtains4 7,the reader must bear in mind
 that during ,mattie's sojourn here1    
such luxury was unknown47  ,mrs4        
,williams is fat and merry4 ,president  
,williams is also in a flourishing      
condition--weighs #afj4 ,his flesh makes
 him very handsome2 you ought to have   
seen him several months ago6 ,the secret
 is that he has quit tobacco4 ,dr4      
,williams is still himself4 ,you would  
have been convinced of it if you had    
heard him this morning at church-time1  
when he came storming into the library1 
crying out1 ',where's ,mary8 ,i don't   
intend waiting any longer on anybody6   
,is she trying to keep me waiting       
another half hour8' ,and there ,i had   
been hiding behind the door half an     
hour1 waiting for him6 ,it did me good  
to rise up1 and tell him so4  ,here is a
 letter from our friend ,albert ,myles1 
who carried ,oliver away from his sick  
room in ,lexington to hold a meeting at 
,ghent3 ,when you bade me goodby in     
,cincinnati about one year ago1--7how   

short it seems6 and now1 how far        
away67--you remember that my health was 
very bad4 ,well1 it grew from bad to    
worse1 till ,i lay at death's door4 ,at 
,crab ,orchard ,springs ,i rallied1 and 
grew steadily better until ,october     
#bjth1 #ahfh1 when ,i--,i--what shall ,i
 say8--,i married6 ,yes1 that was the   
day that gave me my ,ellen for my wife4 
,two weeks later we took charge at the  
,mt4 ,sterling church1 where we are     
still doing what we can in a small and  
humble way4 99 99 99 ,i could see you   
two as you braved the dangers of the    
,irish ,channel1 and took the long      
voyage to ,australia4 ,i could see you  
as you star-gazed and moon-gazed2 as you
 promenaded the deck2 as you sat and    
sang with the guitar2 as you read and   
prayed in the raging storm4 ,as you say1
 none but ,god can know what you        
suffered on that voyage2 but it is a    
precious thought that ,he does know4    
,ol41 ,i gather the following impression
 from your answer regarding my coming   

out to ,australia1 #a4 ,melbourne is the
 best field in ,australia4 #b4 ,this    
field is supplied4 #c4 ,adelaide is     
supplied by ,gore1 ,earl and others4 #d4
 ,new ,zealand is in danger of a war    
with the natives1 the issue of which is 
doubtful without help from the          
government4 #e4 ,whoever accepts the    
,l#hj must go to ,new ,zealand4 ,with   
these facts before me1 to be honest1 it 
does not appear to me that ,australia is
 more in need of preachers than many    
places in the ,united ,states4  ,in ,new
 ,york1 there are only about #djj       
,disciples2 in ,philadelphia1 only about
 #cjj2 while in ,baltimore1 ,cincinnati1
 ,chicago1 ,st4 ,louis and ,san         
,francisco1 which will average about    
#be1jjj population1 there is scarcely an
 average of #ajj ,disciples2 moreover1  
in many rural communities1 we have not  
even been heard of6 ,in ,california are 
thousands of ,chinese who are actually  
worshiping-idols6 ,it occurs to me1 that
 men who love the ancient order of      

things1 are as much needed here as in   
,australia4 ,you say also1 that the     
manner of worship there is different    
from what it is here4 ,this being so1   
one would have to spend some time       
preparing himself for the changed       
condition4 ,if ,i know my own heart1 ,i 
never wanted to do anything so much in  
my whole life1 as to go to ,australia2  
but the more ,i think of the matter1 the
 more firmly ,i am convinced that if one
 goes to ,australia at all1 he ought to 
make up his mind to stay there4 ,j4 ,c4 
,keith 7the other member of our ,trio7  
has succeeded in getting a comfortable  
house of worship built in ,louisville4  
,he is doing well4 7,we have a purpose  
for presenting ,mr4 ,myles' objections  
to going to ,australia1 which will be   
developed later74  ,another letter from 
brother ,joe1 written in ,may1 #ahfh1   
and of more than transient interest3    
,the last spike on the ,union ,pacific  
,railroad was driven last ,monday4      
,thousands of faces are turning         

,westward1 where large farms can be     
bought for small prices4 ,new ,york and 
,san ,francisco are at last united by a 
mammoth railroad that spans the         
continent4 ,while the last spike was    
being driven1 telegraphic wires were in 
connection with all the larger cities1  
and at each stroke of the hammer1 the   
wires rang signal bells from the        
,atlantic to the ,pacific4 ,as ,i read  
the accounts of the great               
demonstrations1 of processions and      
bonfires1 my own breast caught the      
spirit of the age of great enterprises1 
and ,i felt like seeking my fortune amid
 the rich prairies of the ,west4 ,but   
then1 ,i thought1 man's life does not   
consist in the things he possesses2 so  
,i am resolved to be content in my ,old 
,kentucky ,home6 ,i feel inexpressible  
satisfaction in the thought that while  
teaching boys1 ,i am exerting a         
purifying and elevating influence1--an  
influence that will mould society1 and  
tinge its religious1 literary and       

charitable institutions1 long after this
 heart has ceased to beat4 ,o1 what a   
privilege is ours1 ,mattie1 of setting  
in motion waves of eternal blessing6    
,how strange that the great mass of     
mankind neglect such opportunities6  ,we
 are now agitating the question of the  
removal of the ,capitol from            
,washington4 ,if the ,union remains     
undivided1 such a step will be made     
sooner or later4 ,but wherever they put 
the ,capitol1 my home shall be three    
miles from ,stanford on the ,crab       
,orchard pike6 ,i like to think how ,i  
am going to fill one cellar with choice 
apples to roast by the winter fires4    
,wilt come and see us1 and help peel and
 eat1 while we talk of ,australia8 ,and 
what rich cider for you and brother     
,ollie6 ,and there is the garden--oh1   
what a variety of vegetables6 we'll     
store them away in the other cellar1 and
 keep them for you4 ,and if you should  
happen to come back home in strawberry  
time6 ,cake1 cream1 berries--oh1 you    

must not think of staying longer than   
three years6 ,counting six months for   
going and coming1 and three years for   
active service in ,melbourne1 you'll get
 here in ,august1 #ahga4 ,well1 we can  
visit the ,crab ,orchard ,springs       
together--they are only distant a short 
buggy-ride of eleven miles on the smooth
 pike--and we can take a jug along and  
bring it back full4 ,you say it will be 
too warm8 ,but remember1 we have a good 
ice house4 ,then what a fine lot of     
chickens and eggs we will have and 99 99
 99 ,but by this time sister ,mattie is 
weary of cleaning off her spectacles1   
and puts her head upon her arm in that  
far-away ,barclay ,terrace1 and gives it
 up1 gives it all up for the time--with 
faithful ,janie to ward off visitors4   
,oh1 brother ,joe1 how could you6  ,do  
you remember the ,english ,murbys who   
carried the ,carrs away from their      
splendid hotel in ,london1 and          
established the missionaries in their   
own house8 ,here is a note from ,mrs4   

,murby3  ,i often take up my album to   
look at you both4 ,i think over again   
the events of the few days we spent     
together so pleasantly4 ,i always regret
 your time with us was so short2 but we 
hope to give you a hearty welcome again 
in old ,england4 7,strange how          
everything dear to us is old6 ,it should
 be a comforting thought to             
grandparents47  ,you overrate any little
 attentions we may have given you4 ,it  
was a great pleasure for us to make your
 acquaintance4 ,our brother 7the        
,chicago merchant7 returned to the land 
of his adoption the month after you     
left4 ,willie is a bonnie lad now1      
nearly eighteen months old4 ,nellie is  
over four1 and quite a little companion 
for me4 7,let us trust she1 too1 will   
find primroses in the streets of        
,london74  ,if you would like a         
photographic representation of ,kentucky
 ,university life1 do not skip this     
letter from ,j4 ,h4 ,stover4 ,it is     
nothing to our purpose who the author   

may be2 but he has succeeded in laying  
before us not a description of that     
college life1 but the life itself4 ,here
 is the scene in which ,oliver1 as a    
student1 so often mingled1 and which    
,mattie1 as a visitor1 so often looked  
upon2 ,lexington in the month of ,june4 
,faded1 almost gone1 are many of the    
words1 but when we rescue them from     
threatening oblivion1 they throb again  
with the actual1 which throbs best in   
trivialities4  ,our exhibition went off 
last night4 ,brother ,j4 ,b4 ,jones gave
 his first oration before the public2 it
 was well delivered throughout4 ,the    
valedictory was by ,w4 ,a4 ,oldham1 who 
did the best ,i ever heard him4         
,milligan1 ,mc,garvey1 ,meng1 ,wilkes1  
etc41 sat upon the rostrum4 ,the ladies 
had helped decorate the house with      
cedar1 etc41 very tastefully4 ,robt4    
,milligan has just got him a new coat   
and pair of boots4 ,he has laid aside   
that old coat which he used to wear1    
even the first year4 ,he has a new hat1 

too1 but he still keeps on the same old 
shawl4 ,he comes into chapel with his   
hand to his head1 as of old4 ,he did not
 have his usual sick spell this spring4 
,the last time we met1 he told us that  
we were to have vacations from our      
duties1 'but1 young brethren1' he said1 
'there is no vacation in the school of  
,jesus ,christ1 our adorable ,redeemer4'
  ,brother ,mc,garvey is just the       
same--same old coat4 ,i went down to the
 dormitory this morning and1 as usual1  
there were about half a dozen boys      
standing before ,morton's bookstore4    
,they were discussing who had the best  
speech1 and showed the best delivery1 at
 the ,exhibition1 last night4 ,brother  
,jonathan ,m4 came out and said1 ',good 
morning1 young gentlemen6' in that tone 
bordering on sharpness1 as usual4 7,what
 a keen observer6 ,we should dread to   
wear our old coat where he could see    
us67  ,brother ,myles is here4 ,so is   
,miss ,ella ,allen4 ,they were together 
last night1 but ,i know nothing farther 

than when you left4 7,the reader has    
already seen what that came to47        
,professor ,neville1 ,w4 ,t4 ,moore and 
uncle ,dick ,bishop have gone to        
,europe4 ,professor was excited to      
death4 ,it was his long-looked for trip4
 ,he bought him a new suit of clothes1  
for the trip4 ,he looked funny in his   
sack coat4 ,professor ,white looks just 
the same1 except his hair is longer4    
,those same old shoes with holes in the 
toes1 he still wears4 ,his hat1 turned  
down before1 and up behind1 hangs on the
 peg on the post yet1 during            
recitation-time4 ,the boys1 as of old1  
went to the board1 'fizzed' and took    
their seats when he said1 ',that is     
sufficient1 ,i believe6' ,when ,i went  
up to him this morning to inquire my    
standing1 he looked into that same book4
 ,he told me ,i had finished the        
,junior4 ,as ,i went out the door1 ,i   
slapped my thigh4 ,don't a fellow feel  
good when he studies hard1 and does     
better than he looked for6 ,alex4       

,milligan still walks as fast as ever1  
and the bald place on the back of his   
head is none the smaller4 ,he is doing  
well in his book store4 ,brother        
,mc,garvey told me this morning to tell 
you he would write soon4 ,i heard from  
,jim ,keith a few days ago4 ,he is doing
 well6 ,miss ,whitie ,hocker graduated  
at the ,sayer ,institute last week4 ,our
 ,sunday-school had a festival about two
 months ago to which the ,midway ,orphan
 ,school was invited4 ,the ,bible school
 was dismissed4 ,mc,garvey and ,wilkes  
managed it4 ,i think it was after you   
left that ,john ,morgan's remains were  
brought here and interred4 ,there was a 
very long procession4 ,as ,i was walking
 down the street1 today1 ,i met ,j4 ,b4 
,bowman in his old buggy1 behind that   
same old black1 bobtailed mare4 ,he was 
driving very fast as usual4 ,next ,i met
 ,prof4 ,pickett4 ,although it was a    
very hot day1 he had that coat buttoned 
up to his chin4 ,he had that same black 
cane1 and he saluted me in fine military

 style1 then walked on as fast as       
possible4 ,i met the old darkey who took
 care of ,g4 ,l4 ,surber's room the     
first year4 ,he wanted to know if ,i had
 heard from ',massa ,green ,surbah4' ,i 
saw old man ,white with whom you used to
 board4 ,he still has the grocery on the
 corner2 ,kate isn't married yet4 ,he   
still swings his hands as he walks1 and 
ducks his head forward as usual4        
,brother ,lowber came up and said1      
',well1 here is ,brother ,stover2 how do
 you come on1 ,brother ,stover8' ,i     
think he has asked me that same question
 four times this morning1 with the same 
smile4 ,he is a very warm and           
affectionate friend4  ,i saw ,bob ,neal 
next4 ,he wore his hat as you remember4 
,jerry ,morton nodded his head at me as 
he went by4 ,dick ,stohl stopped me to  
ask where he could find a ,horace1 and  
,cottingham called to me from across the
 street4 ,as ,i came home1 ,i met       
,brother ,lard returning from           
,winchester in his buggy2 he had #be    

additions there4 ,at the table1 ,brother
 ,v4 ,p4 told me his prayers were       
frequently in your behalf4 ,dear brother
 ,ollie1 if ,i have succeeded in        
interesting you with these trifles1 ,i  
am repaid for my long letters4 ,give    
,mattie my love1 and tell her ,i claim  
kin with her4 7,which letter1 we fear1  
leaves ,oliver about as homesick as ,j4 
,b4 ,myers' left ,mattie47  ,true to his
 promise1 here comes a letter from      
,prof4 ,j4 ,w4 ,mc,garvey3 ,we published
 your letter1 and a call for packages in
 the ,apostolic ,times1 and have        
received1 in response1 enough books1    
pamphlets and newspapers to fill a      
medium-sized goods box2 we will ship    
them soon4 ,we now have a circulation of
 nearly #d1jjj for the ,apostolic       
,times4 ,i received a copy of your      
tract1 and noticed it in the paper4     
,innovationists have become rampant     
among us2 they expected to run over our 
,brother ,franklin by affecting superior
 knowledge1 but the ,times cannot be    

frowned down in that way4 ,we hope to   
fill a gap in the ranks of the faithful4
 ,you are right in not encouraging the  
brethren to send to ,america for        
preachers while neglecting useful men at
 home4 ,teach them to encourage young   
men of promise4 ,some changes have      
occurred in the ,university4 ,brother   
,pickett resigned his presidency of the 
,agricultural ,college1 and it was      
offered ,brother ,errett4 ,the chances  
are1 however1 that ,errett will take a  
chair of ,bible study1 just created at  
,bethany4 ,he will probably give up the 
,standard1 and it will die4 ,it has     
never more than paid expenses4 ,brother 
,graham has resigned to take the        
presidency of the new female college of 
which ,brother ,hocker is proprietor4   
,john ,augustus ,williams has been      
elected ,president of the ,college of   
,arts4 ,you both have a large and warm  
place in the hearts of thousands of the 
saints4 ,the ,lord be with you4         
,another note from the ,australian      

student1 now at the ,university3 ,i am  
now engaged in the selling of books in  
the vacation3 my object is to make      
enough money to pay my way through      
,bible ,college4 ,my board cost me      
nothing1 for ,i am stopping at the home 
of ,dr4 ,w4 ,h4 ,hopson4 ,i suppose by  
this time you have received the books1  
magazines1 etc41 from ,president        
,milligan4 ,i preach occasionally at    
,providence and ,bethany4 ,cannot some  
of our young brethren in ,australia come
 out here and prepare themselves to     
preach to poor dying sinners8 ,they may 
say they cannot pay the passage2 but if 
they love the ,lord1 they will come1 and
 work their way through4  ,the following
 is from ,mrs4 ,carr to her brother3    
,how my heart blesses you1 for almost   
every mail brings us cheer from your    
pen6 ,if it be the will of ,god that we 
ever again see each other face to face1 
you will know how grateful ,i am4 ,you  
would laugh if you could see us running 
to the door at the ringing of the       

postman1 or leaping from our seats at   
the cry of--',arrival of the ,british   
,mail6' ,we have many dear friends here1
 but a word from ,kentucky carries our  
hearts back in a mighty rush1 and all is
 lost in the old and tried affections of
 home4 ,forget you1 did you say8 ,ah1 we
 could not if we would4 ,come back to   
you1 did you say8 ,assuredly1 if it is  
,god's will4 ,when ,i come back1        
brother1 ,i want to sit in your lap1 and
 with my arms about your neck1 tell you 
of my little trials1 and of my many1    
very many abiding joys4 ,ollie's health 
and mine1 is not good as when we first  
came here2 we fear it may be due to the 
climate4 ,ollie is so upright1 so gentle
 and kind to me1 that ,i have strength  
to bear everything4  ,now a question3   
,suppose we should establish a ,college 
in ,australia1 exclusively for young    
men1 hoping some day to convert it into 
a university--and suppose we should cry 
to ,america for professors--would you   
come8 ,think of the cries of the        

churches here for education--how they   
are obliged to send their young men all 
the way to ,kentucky to prepare them for
 the ministry in the ,christian ,church4
 ,would you come8 ,and much more to the 
same purpose1 showing that this idea of 
a ,christian ,university in ,australia1 
has become a fixed idea with ,mrs4      
,carr--an idea which she is not to yield
 readily4  ,now comes ,o4 ,a4 ,carr to  
the charge1 showing a little of the heat
 of battle that has been roused by      
controversy with the sectarians4 ,it is 
,thomas ,magarey1 father of ,alex4 and  
,vaney1 whom he accosts3 ,thanks for    
candor1 but your admonition was         
unnecessary4 ,i know how it would       
aggravate a zealous brother to think    
that my little squirt is throwing water 
on the fire he is trying to keep aglow4 
,you seem to think that ,i am           
desperately bent on doing nothing with a
 vengeance1 especially if it will injure
 ,australia4 ,it may be true ,i have no 
more judgment than a pig2 ,i may be     

showing the pig--or dog1 if you         
like1--in writing this2 but like you1 if
 ,i am wrong1 ,i apologize4 ,and now to 
the point3 ,what ,i wrote was solely to 
argue that we must not depend upon      
,america in the contemplated college    
affair4 ,my reason for believing that   
evangelists would not come here from    
there1 was the simple fact of their not 
coming4 ,i have never written a line    
home derogatory to anyone's coming to   
,australia4 ,i wrote a confidential     
letter to ,brother ,albert ,myles1 which
 he made me promise to do2 ,i gave my   
first impressions of ,australia1 and    
they were more favorable than ,i ever   
dreamed ,i could give1 when ,i was at   
home4 ,as ,brother ,myles was to come on
 ,adelaide money1 ,i frankly told him   
that ,i could not give him any account  
of ,adelaide4 ,i never believed ,brother
 ,myles would come1 when we received the
 call at the same time1 for the         
conviction that he should do so1 was not
 so strong as mine4 ,his mother was a   

widow1 and looked to him for support4   
,brother ,myles is as true a soldier of 
the ,cross as ever drew the sword4 ,had 
he seen his way clearly1 he would have  
come1 for he wanted to do so4 ,i hold   
myself free from throwing anything in   
the way4  ,pardon me for saying it1 but 
,i suppose ,i will always be a 'new     
chum' and 'too inexperienced for old    
,english women to sit under1' and 'who  
ought not to be allowed to write a      
little ,tract till some old1 experienced
 brother had reviewed it to see if it   
were sound4' ,i want you to believe that
 the 'new chum' wrote nothing he could  
not prove1 and that he is anxious for   
all to come and help in the glorious    
work1 who ought to assume the           
responsible position of a preacher4 ,so 
much from the 'bear with the sore head6'
 ,there2 now6 ,i haven't flared up4 ,i  
do hope you will send for more          
evangelists1 and that the country will  
be supplied with a faithfully preached  
,gospel4 ,alex4 is much better1 and is  

able to eat heartily2 ,vaney is well4   
,mattie1 ,i believe1 is writing to you4 
,back to the charge comes the doughty   
,englishman1 ,member of ,parliament1 and
 miller from ,south ,australia3 ,it is a
 very busy day with me1 but ,i must not 
leave you under painful feelings caused 
by hasty words of mine4 ,as ,i was      
mistaken1 ,i am heartily thankful1 and  
apologize without reserve4 ,in the first
 place1 you are a new chum1 and nine out
 of ten new chums write home under      
disappointed feelings1 as the romance   
melts from those visions which lend     
enchantment to the view4 ,but since you 
did not do so1 ,i am much to blame for  
hasty accusation4 ,as to the rest1 you  
misunderstood my letter4 ,the fault is  
with me4 ,i am always getting myself    
into unpleasant scrapes by my           
correspondence4 ,even the newspapers    
that report my speeches complain that   
they cannot tell whether ,i am joking1  
or in earnest4 ,i have always looked    
upon you as a great acquisition to the  

cause of ,christ in ,australia4 ,i      
cannot imagine what you mean by talking 
of 'a bear with a sore head4' ,i am     
utterly unconscious of having written   
anything to give rise to your           
expression4 ,will you kindly send me the
 whole passage4 ,i do not think of you  
as a bear at all1 sore-headed or        
otherwise4 ,why1 ,i look upon you as one
 of the pillars of the ,cause4 ,i       
think1--if we get so much out of        
,brother ,carr at #bd1 what will we get 
at #cj6 ,then ,i think that by the time 
you are #cj1 you will have ruined your  
health1 and be fit for nothing4 ,i feel 
angry that you undertake so much4 ,i    
know1 had it not been for you during    
,brother ,surber's absence in ,new      
,zealand1 the ,cause would have gone to 
ruin in ,melbourne4 ,then how could ,i  
have thought you in the way1 as 'a pig1'
 or as a man8 ,i do not think any of our
 evangelists are without faults2 but if 
,i let them see that ,i do not consider 
them faultless1 they should not         

therefore run back to ,america1 as they 
sometimes threaten to do6 ,i ought to   
have known better than to take such     
freedom with our friends from ,kentucky4
 ,it is said by travelers that a        
,southerner will allow you to tell him  
his faults1 or his country's faults4    
,but he will not2 or can not1 understand
 any playful allusions to them4 ,now1   
,brother ,carr1 ,i am exceedingly sorry 
to have written anything that hurt your 
feelings4 ,i begin to have some dim     
recollection that ,i may have written   
something about a bear with a sore head1
 but ,i cannot remember what it was4    
,what was it8 ,i have ,sister ,carr's   
letter2 am delighted with it2 was afraid
 she might be cross about that bear4 ,i 
have no letter from my boys1 but hope to
 receive one soon4 ,but ,i must close   
this long rigamarole which ,i cannot    
read myself1 it is so badly done4#ab    
,as a last letter in this chapter's     
mail--what a long chapter it is         
making6--this is offered from ,martin   

,zelius1 he who began ,melbourne life   
with one shilling1 and later sent to    
,america the gold that brought over ,mr4
 and ,mrs4 ,carr2 it will show that he1 
too1 was interested in that ,tract3 ,i  
have heard that you intend to           
investigate1 and bring out1 the         
injustice that one of the religious     
bodies here has done our people4 ,i hope
 you will do it most effectually1 not   
for the sake of victory1 nor of         
retaliation1 but for the love of the    
truth4 ,stand up at any time1 and under 
any circumstances1 to defend the        
commands of ,jesus4 ,he has said he will
 never leave us1 nor forsake us4 ,when  
we have our friend ,jesus to stand by   
us1 our confidence is raised to the     
highest pitch4 ,my dear brother1 it     
brings the tears to my eyes when ,i look
 back on the past1 and see how ,jesus   
has shielded me from many a trial1 from 
many a foe4 ,stand up for him1 ,brother 
,carr6 ,he who is with us is more than  
all who can be against us6  ,the way in 

which the ,church of ,christ looked at  
religious matters was so different from 
the usual view1 that the ,american      
evangelists felt the pressing need of   
tracts to disseminate their ideas4 ,one 
illustration of their effectiveness1 may
 close this branch of the subject4      
,there was a young man whose parents    
lived in a house passed1 every day1 by  
the ,carrs1 on their way to town4 ,the  
father belonged to one denomination1 the
 mother to another1 while the son1      
finding the ,calvinistic doctrines of   
both repellant to his bent of mind1     
refused to accept any scriptural or     
unscriptural principles4 ,he graduated  
at the ,melbourne ,university1 then took
 a special course for the degree of ,m4 
,d4 ,he went into the adjacent country  
to practice1 without having ever met the
 missionaries4 ,one day he came across  
one of ,o4 ,a4 ,carr's tracts4 ,i read  
it with great interest1 he said4 ,i     
asked myself1 is this the truth8 ,i was 
then unsatisfied with the truths of     

,christianity4  ,the young man sought   
his ,bible1 and began with ,moses and   
the prophets1 in a course of systematic 
and scrupulous examination of the ,word4
 ,he read himself into the belief of the
 ,christian church4 ,he called upon the 
neighbors to meet in a hall1 that he    
might tell them what had won him to     
,christianity4 ,he delivered to them a  
course of lectures1 insisting that      
everything needful to man's salvation1  
and life of holiness1 was explicitly    
laid down in the ,bible4 ,at the        
conclusion he cried out1 ,is there any  
one here who believes8  ,more than a    
hundred rose and answered yes6 ,he heard
 them confess their faith in ,christ's  
divinity4 ,he baptized them4 ,having    
determined to prepare himself for the   
ministry1 he laid aside his practice1   
went to ,kentucky ,university1 and1     
thanks to his splendid education1 was   
able to finish the course in a year4    
,thus ,dr4 ,a4 ,m4 ,fisher became       
,fisher the ,evangelist1 thanks to a    

tract written by one who1 not many years
 before1 was gathering up the shavings  
in ,myall's wagon shop4   #h ,martin    
,zelius1 happy man6 ,about the time     
,eneas ,myall was seeking work and found
 it at ,may's ,lick1 ,kentucky1 ,martin 
,zelius stood in the streets of         
,melbourne1 wondering to what he should 
turn his hand4 ,he turned his eye and   
saw across the street a flaming placard3
 ,evangelist from ,america1 ,h4 ,s4     
,earl1 will preach in ,st4 ,george's    
,hall1 etc4 ,no where to go1 he thought 
to himself1 ,i will go hear that man4   
,he was charmed with what he heard1 and 
soon became obedient to the faith4 ,he  
entered upon a business life in which   
his success was marvelous3 everything he
 touched seemed to turn to gold4        
,whole-souled1 enthusiastic1 he stood   
before the church and asked the         
privilege of sending from his own       
earnings the money to pay the expenses  
of the evangelists from ,america4 ,one  
night1 when he had come from church he  

learned that a brother was aggrieved at 
him3 he hired a cab1 drove across the   
city to that ,brother's home1 called him
 from his bed out to talk with him      
alone1 and broached the matter in such a
 way that the ,brother said3 ,o1 it was 
a trifle1 ,i should not have mentioned2 
,i am ashamed of myself because ,i did4 
,is it possible that you have come all  
this distance to talk about that8 ,why1 
yes1 said ,martin ,zelius1 our ,savior  
said1 'if thou bring thy gift to the    
altar and there remember that thy       
,brother hath aught against thee1 leave 
there thy gift2 go be reconciled to thy 
,brother1 and then come and offer thy   
gift4' ,i could not pray to-night until 
,i came to see you1 and know what ,i had
 done to offend you4 ,well1 ,i always   
thought a great deal of you1 but more   
now than ever4 ,forgiven and happy he   
goes home1 at peace with all the world4 
,his wife1 fit companion for such a man1
 of meek and quiet spirit1 entered into 
fullest sympathy with ,mrs4 ,carr1      

understood her1 knew her and loved her4 
,she entreated ,mrs4 ,carr to visit her 
daughter in ,california and arrangements
 were made to do so1 to start in two    
weeks 7in ,november1 #aijg72 but in five
 days she had gone to the eternal home4 
,o4 ,a4 ,c4  #i ,see appendix4  #aj     
,alexander ,t4 ,magarey and ,vaney ,j4  
,magarey were sons of ,thomas ,magarey1 
,m4 ,p41 of ,south ,australia4 ,they    
made their home with us while attending 
the ,university of ,melbourne4 ,two more
 congenial spirits ,i never met2 nor    
better students4 ,then1 too1 they were  
,christians from very love of the       
,savior1 and delighted in the truths of 
the ,gospel4 ,they were very intelligent
 in the ,scriptures4 ,after my return   
from ,australia ,alex4 visited me in    
,kentucky4 ,it was my delight to take   
him among my kindred2 for he and his    
brother seemed to me like one of my own 
family1 and to present him to the       
,brethren as a specimen of what sort    
could be found in ,australia4 ,the      

memory of him1 his father1 brother and  
the ,magarey family is very precious4   
,alex4 would have me take him to see the
 mother of ,brother ,be4 sley who went  
to ,australia1 came home an invalid and 
died of consumption3 he must weep with  
that mother and see the grave of that   
young man3 he must see those--teachers  
and preachers--of whom he had read2 he  
wanted to take them all by the hand1 and
 such a hand grasp as he gave was       
remembered4 ,we were sitting together in
 the ,main ,street ,church in           
,louisville during the ,state ,meeting  
in #ahhj1 when ,t4 ,p4 ,haley asked if  
any knew of rich men's sons who are     
preachers of the ,gospel4 ,only two were
 known--,t4 ,m4 ,arnold of ,covington1  
,kentucky1 and ,alex4 ,magarey4 ,on one 
occasion his horse1 which no one drove  
but him1 took us in a buggy from his    
father's home to a church near ,adelaide
 where ,alex4 preached4 ,the people     
there were poor1 and he would minister  
to them--preach the gospel to the poor4 

,he taught them to give4 ,a woman who   
had no money had gathered the wild      
flowers--her offering--better than gold 
to him4 ,he took them home and pressed  
them1 possibly had them as long as he   
lived4  ,the name ,magarey always       
honored in the ,campbell ,home1 is it   
strange that when ,alex4 came to the    
,united ,states the next time it was for
 the express purpose of bearing to his  
,australian home a bride--niece of      
,alexander ,campbell8  ,these young men 
7,a4 ,t4 and ,s4 ,j4 ,magarey7 were my  
ideals of what young ,christians ought  
to be and do3 they were so congenial to 
me--my companions even playmates1       
sympathized with me so fully1 helped me 
in my work1 that when their earthly life
 ended it seemed that a part of my own  
life had gone with them4                
,o4 ,a4 ,c4  #aa ,philip ,santo--a      
prince among men--a generous1           
sympathetic soul ,come to see us1 was   
his message to me1 ,jeff4 7,t4 ,j4      
,gore7 wants to see you--,i will take no

 excuse4 ,of course1 ,i had to go4 ,when
 we had enjoyed his home for a while he 
sent ,jeff4 and me to the seaside--to   
,port ,elliot1 the farthest limit of    
land toward the ,south4 ,up on the      
immense cliff at the hotel we feasted   
the body and rested1 while we looked far
 out over the ,southern ocean toward the
 ,south ,pole4 ,at night the tide would 
lash the waves up in sprays to the very 
top of this cliff3 in the afternoon we  
strolled the beach1 gathering shells1   
and leaving our little 787 footprints to
 be washed away at even4 ,every year ,t4
 ,j4 ,gore visits ,port ,elliot with his
 family for a season2 and a picture of  
it hangs on the wall at ,carr-,burdette 
,college4  ,philip ,santo1 happy man1   
was always planning1 preparing something
 for the good of the ,church4 ,he would 
sit in his ,library at night and read   
until absorbed in some happy thought he 
would say3 ,jeff41 what does this       
,scripture mean8 and then he would be   
silent until next ,lord's day morning   

when ,jeff4 would be delighted with the 
lesson1 and the exhortation ,philip     
,santo would give at the church4 ,those 
who heard him speak in the ,house of    
,parliament were glad to hear him in the
 ,church2 for in the honesty of his soul
 he ministered in each place4 ,when ,i  
bade him good-by he insisted that ,i    
take fifty dollars2 for1 said he1 ,i do 
not permit the preachers to come to see 
me at their own expense4  ,he visited us
 in ,hobart ,city1 ,tasmania4 ,he       
entered the store of his old time       
friend1 with a cordial greeting4 ,how do
 you prosper8 ,the friend1 a            
hypercalvinist1 he who heard ,o4 ,a4    
,carr gladly1 read ,milligan's ,scheme  
of redemption and pronounced it the best
 book1 next to his ,bible1 he had ever  
seen1 but who drew back when he heard a 
sermon on ',my ,sheep'--,very well      
indeed1 he said1 until the preacher     
7,carr7 began to preach ,campbellism4   
,what is that you said he preached1 said
 ,santo4 ,what is ,campbellism8 ,oh1 ,i 

don't know2 but that is what they said  
he preached4 ,then he enveloped himself 
in a mist of dreary theology1 and       
proceeded into the darkness of the      
decrees of foreknowledge and fixed the  
fate of all1 as he thought4 ,whereupon  
,santo remarked3 ,do you think that any 
man of ordinary sense can understand    
what you have been saying8 ,our friend  
was a good man1 and he could bear it1   
when ,philip ,santo said it2 but he went
 into the other room to cool off2 but   
soon returned to indulge in             
reminiscences4 ,he read in a few days   
the announcement that ,the ,hon4 ,philip
 ,santo1 from ,adelaide1 would preach   
the next ,lord's day in ,o4 ,a4 ,carr's 
place4 ,then it was revealed that he had
 given himself away together with his   
cause2 but he continued to maintain     
stoutly that a sheep could never become 
a goat4  ,on leaving us he said3 ,i want
 to give you this3 you may need some    
pocket change--and placed #ej4jj in my  
hand4 ,thus he moved around among the   

churches--distributing to the necessity 
of saints like he was given to          
hospitality in his home4  ,his heart's  
desire was to visit his brethren in     
,america4 ,his active business life     
forbade a lingering while here4 ,he     
telegraphed to me to meet him in ,st4   
,louis4 ,feeling that we must have him  
in our home at ,columbia1 my answer was 
to tell him how he could come1 and be   
sure to come2 but he must set sail from 
,california at a fixed date and could   
not4 ,we missed the joy of his presence4
 ,how ,i would love now to have the     
opportunity to do his bidding2 but he   
has gone from the earthly life4         
,o4 ,a4 ,c4  #ab ,by association with   
him and his family in his own home ,i   
learned to love ,thomas ,magarey1 and   
henceforth to think of him very much as 
his sons thought1 and to feel that he   
was a father to us all to correct and to
 help us4 ,he could not offend me if he 
would by any strange position he might  
take1 or any thing he might say2 nor    

would he intentionally do so4 ,he was   
born to be heard1 to say what should be 
in the affairs of men4 ,right or wrong  
in what he claimed as truth1 he was a   
genuine man4 ,o4 ,a4 ,c4     ,,chapter  
,,xi4  ,,busy ,,years ,,in ,,australia4 
,in the shifting crowds of men and women
 along our life-pilgrimage1 few are     
those who feel an abiding interest in   
the concerns of others4 ,we meet and    
part1 each thinking of what he may have 
gained in the way of social inspiration1
 rather than of what he may have        
imparted4 ,it is not indifference1      
however1 which most severely galls the  
sensitive spirit2 it is the active      
opposition that ever seems the lot of   
him or her who would help humanity4 ,i  
do not know if any feet have reached the
 upper rounds of high ideals1 without   
shaking off detaining hands4 ,in the    
case of ,mrs4 ,carr1 influences adverse 
not only to her work1 but to her peace  
of mind1 were destined to attend her    
through life4  ,it is impossible to     

estimate the good that might be         
accomplished1 if mankind would rally    
around those souls fired with lofty     
purposes1 and strengthen and make more  
effective those purposes1 by sympathetic
 encouragement2 if it were human nature 
to add to lofty ambitions1 by lending   
substance from one's own slighter       
forces4 ,but it appears to be the rule  
that wherever one is found who desires  
to do a great good for others1 a dozen  
are found to weaken his influence and to
 seek to undermine his work4 ,those     
physical mannerisms which are presently 
to perish with the flesh1 are seized    
upon for the purpose of striking dead1  
influences which might otherwise have   
been eternal4  ,illustration3 ,on ,road 
to ,salmon ,ponds1 ,tasmania            
,illustration3 ,hobart ,town1 ,tasmania 
,when ,mrs4 ,carr1 experienced for the  
first time the cruelty of this truth1   
she was unprepared for it4 ,in later    
years1 having learned her lesson1 having
 been convinced that opposition to truth

 is inherent to human nature1 she was   
able to hold her courage with a fixed   
and steel-willed conviction1 that cut   
its way through all walks of opposition4
 ,but at first she was not prepared for 
this unlovely trait of lesser minds4    
,accordingly1 we sometimes find her     
sinking1 wavering1 fluttering like a    
bird in a snare1 before the breath of   
treachery1 and the opposition of jealous
 natures4  ,to understand the story of  
this life in its entirety1 one must know
 the details of these struggles and     
these disappointments4 ,yet we would    
rather leave the story incomplete1 than 
perpetuate misunderstandings and        
misrepresentations4 ,those who opposed  
,mrs4 ,carr in all of her educational   
plans1 share the fate of one who chooses
 as his part in life1 that of           
opposition4 ,it is not he who opposes1  
but he who performs1 to whom the world  
owes its gratitude4 ,those who are      
antagonistic to good works1 court the   
oblivion that awaits them4 ,those who1  

in spite of discouragements and         
hostility1 hold tenaciously to lofty    
purposes1 leave to the world such       
monuments of their devotion1 as the     
sun-kissed college on the               
flower-embossed hill overlooking        
,sherman1 ,texas4  ,we shall content    
ourselves1 therefore1 with passing by1  
in silence1 the words and deeds of the  
ill-natured1 the unfriendly and the     
indifferent4 ,one should not go back    
into the past to gather its thorns4 ,so 
much is said at this place1 that those  
conversant with the controversies and   
contentions of school and church life   
during the last quarter of the          
nineteenth century1 need not expect to  
find them reanimated in this volume4    
,the following selection from ,mrs4     
,carr's diary deals with her first trip 
to ,north ,tasmania whither1 two years  
later1 she and her husband were to go   
for a year's sojourn3  ,jan4 #c4 ,left  
for ,hobart ,town1 ,tasmania1 on the    
ship ,southern ,cross4 ,sisters at the  

wharf4 ,kissed ,ollie goodby4 ,dashed   
away the tears--may we meet again1 dear 
husband6  #dth4 ,passed through ,port   
,philip's ,bay4 ,over the ,rip1 that    
terrible ,rip6 what seasickness it      
brings6 ,terrible storm6 ,i was crowded 
out of my birth1 but was glad to get the
 fresh air4 ,the captain and stewardess 
were kind4 ,the ,lord bless them4  #eth4
 ,reached ,hobart ,town1 #g a4 m4 ,met  
by the ,walworths1 to whom ,ollie had   
telegraphed4 ,saw more vice in two hours
 than ,i saw in ,new ,york in two weeks4
 ,what wicked people6  #fth4 ,sailed in 
the ,monarch to ,new ,norfolk1 #bb      
miles4 ,scenery along the ,derwent is   
grand1 but not to be compared to that of
 the beautiful ,ohio4 ,hop gardens far  
up the hills1 shrouded in mists4 ,how   
lovely6  #gth4 ,visited ,salmon ,ponds1 
#g miles from ,new ,norfolk4 ,salmons   
raised here1 as they are not native to  
,australia2 #cj1jjj sent to the ocean   
yearly through the streams that supply  
the ponds from the ,derwent4 ,returned  

to ,north ,tasmania by coach2 fine view 
of the country--how ,i wished for       
,ollie6  #hth4 ,stormy day4 ,spent it   
indoors1 sewing and gazing at frowning  
,mt4 ,wellington1 the pride of          
,tasmania4 ,attended services on a      
man-of-war4  #ajth4 ,visited ,town ,hall
 and ,museum4 ,saw handwriting of the   
,king of ,madagascar4  #aath4 ,went by  
coach to ,launceston1 distance of #abj  
miles4 ,the grand mountainous scenery   
compensated for the long ride4 ,passed  
the ,western ridge on top of which smile
 beautiful lakes1 #a1jjj feet above the 
sea4 ,more like ,kentucky than any      
scenery ,i've witnessed4  #abth4        
,visited ,cataract ,gorge on ,south     
,esk4 ,to ,prince's ,square where stands
 the finest fountain in the ,colonies2  
it was imported from ,paris4  #acth4 ,at
 ,mechanics' ,institute saw life-size   
oil paintings of ,victoria and ,prince  
,albert1 and the ,prince and ,princess  
of ,wales4 ,what a sweet1 gentle face   
,princess ,alexandria has6 ,dear woman1 

she deserves a better husband4 ,these   
people are so kind to me--,ollie will   
love them for that4  #ad4 ,visited ,mr4 
,gunn1 ,curator of ,museum1 who promised
 to send specimens to ,kentucky         
,university4 ,my husband's ,alma ,mater 
is dear to me1 because dear to him4     
,launceston by ,tamar4 ,sick all the way
 to ,port ,philip4 ,scenery along ,tamar
 not so bold as along the ,derwent4     
#aeth4 ,reached ,melbourne1 and waited  
at ,brother ,zelius' to see ,ollie4 ,how
 glad ,i am to be with my dear husband  
once more4 ,may the dear ,lord spare him
 till ,i die4 ,only ,god knows how dear 
he is to me2 ,god will not take him from
 me4  ,at this time1 the youth whom we  
have known as ,vaney ,magarey1 leaves   
the ,carrs' household1 no longer to play
 marbles in the third story at stolen   
intervals1 but to take his place in the 
world as ,dr4 ,s4 ,j4 ,magarey2 the     
,vaney quite lost among these dignified 
initials4 ,also his brother ,alex4      
departs1 meaning to sail to ,america4   

,from ,adelaide1 ,vaney writes back2    
sending ,mrs4 ,carr ten pounds1         
evidently on her birthday1 for he tells 
,mr4 ,carr1 ,i promised ,mrs4 ,carr ten 
pounds4 ,please lay them on with your   
fist with as much severity as you think 
fitting4 ,then he tells of ,l#h1jjj     
worth of ,adelaide gold just discovered1
 and sends his regards to all inquiring 
friends1 except tailors and bailiffs4   
,somewhat later1 he writes that he will 
not return2 another may have his room4  
,he is interested in ,mr4 ,carr's work  
as a teacher of prospective             
ministers1--,for goodness' sake1 do not 
turn them out half-educated4 ,sometimes 
students are allowed to leave the       
,academy before they know enough1 and   
then they cause anxiety to many1 and    
prejudice people against colonial-made  
preachers4 ,as for ,vaney1 himself1 ,we 
are at the seaside1 and have a swim     
every morning1 and drive every day4  ,an
 interesting character1 this gay young  
physician1 son of the rich ,m4 ,p4 ,as  

we have seen1 he and his brother were   
accustomed to address the congregations 
on ,sunday mornings1 while they attended
 the ,university of ,melbourne4 ,when he
 had graduated1 ,vaney or ,s4 ,j4 as we 
must call him now1 went to ,south       
,australia and lived with his father1   
where ,gore was editing the ,pioneer4   
,the young physician married one of     
,mrs4 ,carr's favorite pupils4 ,he      
became successful in his profession1    
while his brother developed into a      
splendid preacher4 ,alex4 preaches and  
,i practice1 said the doctor4 ,when it  
was necessary for ,mr4 ,gore to be      
absent from the pulpit1 he would call on
 ,dr4 ,s4 ,j4 to preach the sermon in   
his stead4  ,in the meantime the father1
 ,thomas ,magarey1 has seen his son     
,alex4 off to ,america1 in the company  
of ,evangelist ,earl4 ,he writes to ,mr4
 ,carr1 but not now about bears with    
sore heads3 ,i have your letter dated   
',washington's birthday4' ,i have heard 
something of ,washington1 but never     

heard that he had a birthday4 ,i suppose
 ,washington is one of those best kind  
of demons1 more worshipped in ,america  
than ,england4 ,when ,i go to ,barnum's 
,museum1 ,i will inquire for his        
birthday4  ,i am glad to hear your      
,forrester's ,hall was so hot1 because  
,i had thought our ,white's ,room the   
hottest place in ,australia4 ,i am still
 inclined to think we can sweat freer at
 ,white's4 ,i am glad ,brother ,h4 makes
 a good deacon2 ,i am always glad when a
 ,scotchman can be found good for       
something4 ,dr4 ,johnson says the animal
 ought to be caught while young4 ,you   
say your health is better1 but ,i cannot
 believe it1 for you give yourself no   
chance to get better4 ,go away and take 
a rest4 ,why was ,paul allowed to waste 
so much time and energy8 ,was he not a  
citizen of no mean city 7the ,kentucky  
of his day87 ,was he not senior wrangler
 under ,prof4 ,gamaliel8 ,had he not    
graduated with honors and degree of ,a4 
,m4 from the ,university of ,jerusalem8 

,he was at least master of the art of   
tent-making4 ,yet with all these        
accomplishments1 he went away somewhere 
into ,arabia for three years4 ,then he  
goes from city to city afoot1 in danger 
of being robbed--why wasn't he provided 
with a buggy8 ,instead of preaching in a
 jail1 why not have occupied the biggest
 house in ,phillippi8 ,it wouldn't have 
been refused after that earthquake4     
,instead of working at his trade for    
bread1 wouldn't it have been better for 
the missionary cause1 if the brethren   
had paid him a salary1 and had him give 
all his time to preaching8 ,what a waste
 of time6 ,he might have been writing a 
,reply--a ,tract--to the ,rev4 ,annanias
 of the ,temple4 ,and think of him at   
,rome1 chained to a ,roman soldier 7no  
doubt a ,yankee barbarian67 ,why1 if he 
had been chained to a ,barnabas or      
,titus1 they must soon have got to      
quarreling4 ,think of him two years in  
his own hired house1 when the church of 
,rome ought to have put out handbills   

that ,rev4 ,paul would preach at the    
,town ,council6 ,but perhaps there were 
,scotch deacons in that church1 for we  
know there were ,britains in ,rome4     
,they were too cautious4  ,but a thought
 upsets my theory4 ,perhaps the ,lord   
saw that ,paul's own mind needed the    
discipline through which he was passing4
 ,perhaps it is so with young men of the
 present day--sometimes their energy    
seems wasted2 but it may be in order to 
make the most of their good qualities2  
that they may learn in time to be       
sorrowful1 yet always rejoicing4 ,well1 
,i must close my letter and go out into 
the barren wilderness which surrounds   
me1 in which the shepherd is at wits'   
end to find pasture for the sheep4      
,illustration3 ,entrance to ,domain1    
,sidney--,hyde ,park4  ,from ,mrs4      
,carr's diary1 ,mar4 #bg1 #ahgj3 ,two   
years ago we made those holy vows to    
each other that only ,god can sever4    
,two years ago1 we left brothers and    
sisters1 and all the tender associations

 of sweet home4 ,may we ever be true to 
each other1 and to ,god4 ,o blessed     
,savior1 give me more of thy gentleness 
and of thy humility4 ,make me a better  
child and a better wife1 as the silent  
years creep on1 leading me closer to the
 grave1--the dark path that leads to the
 beautiful mansion in our ,father's     
house4 99 99 99 ,visited ,botanical     
,gardens1 overlooking the ,bay4 ,visited
 ,barrabool hills and along ,barwon     
river to ,geelong across the ,bay1 #ej  
miles from ,melbourne1 where we got a   
cup of milk4  ,on ,mrs4 ,carr's         
birthday1 her pupils thus testify to    
their affection3 ,we cannot permit this 
opportunity to pass without manifesting 
our appreciation of the excellent course
 of instruction you have pursued1 and   
the kindness1 perseverance and patience 
you have combined with ,christian love  
and forbearance1 with which you have    
exercised your arduous duties4 ,you have
 not only enlarged our understanding1   
but excited in our hearts a deep feeling

 of love4 ,you are more like a dear1    
fond friend than a teacher4 ,the most   
difficult lessons become1 under your    
guidance1 pleasant studies4 ,may you    
live many years to pursue the noble     
efforts of your life4--,signed by the   
young ladies of her class4  ,from ,j4   
,b4 ,bowman1 now in ,washington ,city3  
,i have been prosecuting a claim for    
damages done the ,university buildings  
during the war2 ,i will succeed in      
getting #be1jjj1 which will be expended 
in the erection of buildings at         
,ashland4 ,i have written thanking you  
for your valued favor of shipping the   
box of specimens for the ,museum4 ,we   
had the pleasure of opening it to-day at
 the ,smithsonian ,institution1 and oh6 
how delighted was ,i1 with the rare and 
beautiful things in it6 ,it shall be    
placed in a special case in ,ashland4   
,sister ,mattie1 how exact they are in  
the classification and arrangement1     
showing so much care and skill and      
science on your part6 ,general ,latham  

arrived after a trip of six months4 ,he 
called on me to-day at the department4  
,he says ,sister ,carr is the most      
highly educated and accomplished lady in
 ,australia4 ,we have about #hjj        
enrolled at the ,university4 ,the ,bible
 ,college is a grand success4 ,i propose
 nominating ,jas4 ,c4 ,keith as ,adjunct
 ,professor4 ,oh1 if ,i had a million   
dollars1 there would be #ejj in the     
,bible ,college6 ,to this end of        
enlarging the ,university1 ,i am working
 and praying every day of my life4  ,mr4
 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr--relative to this 
brief visit to ,sidney3 ,september #bg1 
'#ga3 ,we will reach ,sidney at dark    
to-night4 ,it is hard to write on the   
ship4 ,all of us have been very sick1   
but it is fine now4 ,the wind is fair   
and we are gliding along most           
beautifully as we promenade the deck4   
,there is a man on board who has been in
 ,louisville1 and ,may's ,lick6 ,his    
name is ,smith2 a brother of ,john's ,i 
presume6  #bhth3 ,after a fine dinner   

yesterday at five1 we had music on deck4
 ,dark came on1 and with it the lights  
of ,sidney ,harbor4 ,it was the grandest
 view ,i ever had of any harbor4 ,the   
lights were everywhere1 and their       
reflection in the water was like posts  
surmounted by candles1 and we were      
sailing right into the midst of these   
posts4 ,we came right up to the wharf   
and there stood a number of ,sidney     
friends to put us in cabs4 ,after ,i    
went to bed1 the old steamer was still  
roaring in my ears1 and the floor was   
moving up and down1 as ,i went off to   
dreamland4 ,i am now sitting in a little
 parlor with a headache1 waiting for    
breakfast and fearfully hungry4  #cjth3 
,i saw ,parliament houses1 and fine they
 are4 ,i walked through ,hyde ,park1    
where is a monument to ,captain ,cook   
with this inscription2 ',captain ,cook1 
born in ,yorkshire #agbf1 founded this  
territory #aggj4' ,just over the        
monument ,i saw1 away in the distance1  
part of ,sidney harbor1 the sun shining 

on the hills1 and glistening in the     
water4 ,visited a former servant of the 
,magareys1 who is now independent and   
owns a mill of his own4 ,his daughter is
 a fascinating little creature--don't be
 jealous6--a perfect prodigy on the     
piano4 ,they insist that ,i must preach 
here two ,sundays4  ,sidney is the      
funniest laid-out place ,i ever saw4    
,part of the city is compact1 the       
streets running every direction1 at all 
angles1 like ,london1 while a short     
distance toward ,new ,town there is a   
cowpen or paddock4 ,the houses are      
strongly and handsomely built of massive
 stone1 and some have stone steps       
running to the top of the three stories4
 ,some houses look as if they had stood 
for centuries4 ,it seems to me that the 
poorest thing the people have is        
religion4 ,the one thing needful is the 
only thing neglected4 ,i am not over my 
seasickness1 and even now the table     
seems to be going up and down as ,i     
write4 ,give my love to ,surber and     

,zelius1 etc4 ,if my tooth quits aching1
 ,i shall bring it back to ,melbourne in
 my mouth4  ,oct4 #crd3 ,preached       
yesterday to small but interesting      
audiences4 ,at night1 three             
confessions--the first ever had in      
,sidney immediately after the preaching4
 ,the brethren were delighted4  ,oct4   
#dth3 ,went to hear an elocutionary     
effort in a little chapel2 ,i was       
charmed by the speaker's manner and     
style1 but pained because he did not    
preach the ,gospel4 ,from there we      
hurried on a boat for a trip up the     
,parramatta river1 and saw ,sidney      
,harbor to best advantage4 ,i never saw 
such a sight1 not even in old ,kentucky6
 ,it is beautiful beyond description4   
,the river was clear and smooth1        
sparkling in the sun4 ,as far as the eye
 could reach were the weeping willows   
and pines1 and trees whose foliage had  
the appearance of a continuous mountain 
range1 relieved by beautiful flowers and
 lawns surrounding the prettiest houses1

 in front of which were the winding     
walks4 ,the red soil and bright pebbles 
glistened down to the shore-bridge1     
where the boat would stop for           
passengers4 ,we saw many islands where  
were beautiful houses and gardens1 and  
could see the people walking about in   
their island homes4 ,the most famous was
 ,cockatoo ,island whither the convicts 
were once sent1 from which there was no 
possible escape4 ,there stood the houses
 in which they had once lived4 ,as the  
steamer glided on1 we saw the ripe      
oranges hanging from the trees1 and when
 we landed to go to a hotel at          
,parramatta1 the perfume of the flowers 
followed us through the streets4  ,oct4 
#ith3 ,your two letters came1 and ,i had
 a rare treat reading them4 ,i was so   
glad to hear of the success you are     
having in the matter of raising funds to
 build the chapel6 ,hurrah for those    
sisters at ,collingwood6 ,we'll have a  
chapel1 won't we8 ,certainly1 if my wife
 takes the enterprise in hand6  ,mrs4   

,carr to ,mr4 ,carr1 while he was on his
 visit to ,sidney3 ,it is very stormy   
today on land1--what will it be on the  
sea8 ,i dreamt last night of a sinking  
ship4 ,in reaching forward to save you1 
,i awoke4 ,may ,god bring you back safe 
to me1 my dear1 dear husband6 ,jane     
,nash 7of whom the reader is presently  
to hear7 is going to ,tasmania in about 
a fortnight to be married to ,brother   
,smith2 she wants you to perform the    
ceremony4 ,can you not come home by way 
of ,tasmania8 ,jane will go over any    
time you can be there4 ,let us know4    
,among the young men who were bound to  
the ,carrs by tender affection1 and a   
common religious interest1 was ,george  
,smith1 a hatter by trade4 ,some time   
before the ,sidney experience1 ,mr4     
,carr met ,smith on the street1 and the 
young man grasped the minister's hand1  
while the tears shone in his eyes4 ,he  
had been out of a job for some time4    
,and now1 he said1 ,i have found a      
position4 ,i answered an advertisement a

 few days ago1 and a telegram has come  
for me to take a place at once4  ,then  
what is the trouble8 asked ,mr4 ,carr4  
,the trouble was that the position      
offered ,smith was at ,hobart ,town1 in 
,tasmania4 ,there was no ,church of     
,christ at ,hobart ,town2 there was no  
one known to the young hatter1 and1     
moreover1 there was ,jane6 ,how can ,i  
leave the brethren8 exclaimed ,smith2   
and how can ,i leave ,jane8  ,jane ,nash
 had been reared a ,roman ,catholic4    
,through the influence of her suitor1   
she was induced to attend the preaching4
 ,she was so disturbed by what she      
heard1 that she resolved to take her    
,bible1 visit the different preachers1  
and have them point out the places that 
might tell her what to do to be saved4  
,she visited several2 but they could    
only tell her to read her ,bible1 to    
pray1 to wait for a divine influence4   
,at last1 she accosted ,mr4 ,surber with
 her oft repeated question3 ,will you   
tell me what ,i must do to be saved8  ,i

 cannot tell you1 said ,mr4 ,surber2 but
 ,i will direct you to those who can2   
men who ought to know1 for the ,savior  
himself inspired them to speak his will4
  ,illustration3 ,sydney ,harbor        
,illustration3 ,port ,jackson1 ,sydney  
,illustration3 ,sydney ,harbor  ,jane   
was greatly excited4 ,mr4 ,surber took  
her back to the day of ,pentecost1 and  
had her sit under the preaching of      
,peter4 ,her question was the very one  
,peter had been asked4 ,the answer on   
that day was the answer now4 ,jane      
confessed her faith1 and was baptized4  
,it was best for ,george ,smith to leave
 ,melbourne1 that he might make a home  
for himself and his betrothed4 ,dear as 
both were to the ,carrs1 they urged the 
young man to accept the position1 and   
,jane1 to wait till he could send for   
her4 ,after they were married1 they     
faded for a time from the lives of ,mr4 
and ,mrs4 ,carr2 but1 as we shall       
presently see1 they were again to enter 
their history in a way more pronounced4 

,in the meantime ,j4 ,c4 ,keith writes  
from ,louisville1 and gives us a        
melancholy bit of news as regards that  
,australian student whom we had seen    
dropping potatoes1 to hurry along his   
education2 ,keith writes to ,mrs4 ,carr3
 ,i have read with interest all your    
articles to our different papers4 ,you  
are doing a noble work for the ,master4 
,few women in this fashion and          
money-loving age would endure so much   
for the ,savior4 ,oh1 that woman would  
rise to the dignity of her position6 99 
99 99 ,my letter has been interrupted4  
,the life of a city preacher is a       
checkered1 yet a glorious one4 ,one day 
he exhorts the brethren to be faithful1 
the next he faces a bridal pair1 the    
next he stands beside the dead2 then he 
visits the poor and bereaved and goes   
reading1 and singing1 and praying1 on   
his way4 ,i met ,brother ,earl and      
,magarey 7our ,alex47 ,earl is working  
hard to raise the #bj1jjj for your      
,bible ,college in ,australia4 ,i saw   

,mr4 ,cowley yesterday4 ,he is in this  
city1 working for some ,boston book     
house4 7,this is our enthusiastic       
,australian pupil4 ,note his sequel47   
,don't think the ,cause lost much4 7,ah1
 yes1 let us solace ourselves as best we
 may47  ,j4 ,w4 ,mc,garvey writes       
encouraging words1 not about young      
,cowley1 who1 alas6 is no longer ours1  
but regarding another ,australian       
student who is destined to remain in the
 fold3 ,our ,bible ,college is moving on
 with steady growth4 ,we have #ajg      
matriculates and expect #bj more4 ,the  
,apostolic ,times is growing in favor1  
but not so rapidly as we would like4    
,the tendency among us is strongly in   
favor of latitudinarianism2 our         
opposition to this rouses counter       
opposition4 ,the ,standard1 under its   
free and easy policy1 has almost caught 
up with the ,review4 ,the ,christian has
 at last possession of the ,pioneer1 and
 has a clear field in ,missouri4 ,we    
have recently had a runaway match of a  

rather unusual character4 ,a young son  
of ,brother ,g4 ,w4 ,longan of          
,missouri1 who was a student at the     
,bible ,college1 got a dismissal to go  
home1 and slipped off with ,emma ,lard1 
,brother ,lard's third daughter4 ,bad   
for the children of two preachers6 ,all 
the special friends of the parties are  
very much mortified4 ,the young couple  
are poor and inexperienced2 they have a 
poor prospect before them4 ,brother     
,capp 7our young man from ,australia7 is
 making a good student4 ,he is          
industrious1 popular1 and recites very  
well for a new pupil4 ,much love to     
,sister ,carr1 and many thanks for her  
good letters in the ,times4  ,john      
,augustus ,williams is very doubtful    
about that ,australian ,university      
scheme2 he writes to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i    
know the ,lord1 by his tender           
providence1 is guiding you to do a good 
and noble work4 ,i hardly know what to  
say in reference to your proposed trip  
to the ,united ,states with a view to   

raise funds for a ,college in           
,australia4 ,no doubt you could succeed 
better than ,brother ,earl 7whose       
efforts for #bj1jjj came to nothing74   
,but you would assume a great           
undertaking4 ,while ,i would give you   
all the help ,i could1 you would have to
 depend mainly on your own personal     
appeals4 ,it is impossible to excite any
 general interest in an enterprise that 
lies so far away4 ,though ,charity may  
extend a liberal hand1 she does not     
reach far4  ,mrs4 ,carr1 in a letter1   
gives a sidelight on her busy life3 ,if 
you could follow me one day through ,no4
 #d ,barclay ,terrace1 and then through 
the streets of ,melbourne1 you would lay
 your finger upon my lips1 should ,i    
seek to apologize for not writing       
oftener4 ,i am discharging some duty    
every waking hour1 and ,i rarely retire 
till after twelve4 ,yet with all my     
humble efforts1 a host of duties        
unfulfilled is daily pressing upon my   
conscience4 ,often in the storm1 it is a

 perplexity to know what should be done 
first4 ,but ,i rejoice that ,i had the  
strength to cut the cord binding me to  
the vanities of life4 ,no1 ,i do not    
complain1 for ,i never lived until ,i   
came to ,australia4 ,when ,i read1 two  
years ago1 ,mrs4 ,browning's line1      
',where we live1 we suffer and toil1' ,i
 thought it a golden bar of poetry2 now 
,i know it to be a diamond of truth4    
,then1 it moved my girl's spirit with   
the murmur of the outer world2 now1 it  
pushes my woman's nature toward the     
inner significance of all things4 ,yes1 
to suffer and toil1 is to live6  ,so ,i 
enjoy this life2 but ,i should enjoy it 
intensely1 if ,i had but three hours    
every day to devote to self-improvement4
 ,it may be a selfish desire2 not having
 a single hour to cultivate my mind1 is 
a sore trial4 ,i try to smother this    
longing1 fearing it may be wrong2 but my
 every effort seems to give it a        
brighter glow4 ,it is a part of my life1
 a part of the life that hungers after  

the beautiful1 the wise1 the infinite4  
,if ,i were with you1 ,i would bore you 
from morning to night with poetry2 for  
during my summer vacations in girlhood1 
my store of poetry grew painfully       
immense4 ,have you read ',gold ,foil1'  
and ',bitter ,sweet1' or ',dream ,life1'
 and ',reveries of a ,bachelor'8 ,if    
not1 a rich feast awaits you4 ,there is 
a deep1 strong poetry in all that       
dropped from ',ike ,marvel's pen1 though
 he wrote nothing but prose4 ,i thought 
of comparing that brilliant writer to   
,washington ,irving1 but remembered the 
grave of buried love1 and ,friendship   
weeping there1 and my hand refused to   
commit the sacrilege4  ,in ,october1    
#ahga1 we find that one of our          
,trio--the graduating class of          
'#fg--;has been attacked by a foe from  
whom there is to be no escape4 ,the     
letter is from ,albert ,myles3 ,yes1 the
 notice in the ,times by ,brother       
,brooks was correct4 ,i am disabled from
 preaching--my last sermon was delivered

 ,april #bfth1 six months ago4 ,i may   
never be well enough to preach again1   
though ,i try to keep a brave heart and 
hope on4 ,it was at first a cold1 of    
which ,i thought little1 but instead of 
getting better1 ,i finally had a        
cough--the doctors said it was          
bronchitis4 ,by their advice1 ,i        
resigned my position and went to ,st4   
,louis1 as the doctors said a rest would
 restore me4 ,but shortly after ,i came 
to the city1 the #hth and ,mound ,street
 congregation earnestly solicited my    
services4 ,they are poor1 and only about
 #bjj4 ,i consented to preach twice on  
,lord's day1 if they would not ask me to
 visit2 but it was a mistake2 the work  
did not seem heavy1 but ,i grew worse1  
and worse4 ,i still thought my lungs    
were sound1 and being called to the     
church at ,columbia1 ,mo41 ,i thought ,i
 would go there for the country air4 ,i 
had been but a week or two1 when ,i was 
compelled to quit and return to ,st4    
,louis4 ,i had the doctors examine me   

again1 and1 to my utter astonishment1   
they said with great unanimity that ,i  
had old fashioned tubercular            
consumption1 and that my life depended  
upon quitting preaching immediately1 and
 that1 for a good while4 ,i have not    
dared even to exhort in prayer meeting1 
since then4 ,as to my coming to         
,australia1 the dangers of the voyage   
have never been considered by me4 ,but  
if ,i come--for ,i cannot even yet      
decide not to do so--could the trip     
improve me sufficiently to labor there8 
,and suppose ,i came1 and could do no   
more than ,i do here6  ,my headquarters 
are still in ,st4 ,louis2 but ,i am not 
living anywhere in particular4 ,i am at 
,mt4 ,sterling1 ,ky41 now1 where ,i see 
your brothers nearly every day4 ,they do
 not look strong1 but you can't tell    
anything about the ,carr tribe by their 
looks1 they are such a bony set6 ,i must
 go to church now--will finish this     
letter after church if strong enough4   
,the next day he takes up the pen again4

 ,you have doubtless seen an account of 
the death of my brother ,james4 ,no man 
in the ministry did so much work as he1 
in the same length of time4 ,he was     
literally the victim of overwork6 ,we   
have also lost our darling little       
,allene2 she was #bj months old4 ,not   
only we1 but every one thought her      
remarkably beautiful4 ,dear ,ol41 you   
have never been blessed with one of     
these little heavenly messengers2 but   
neither have your hopes1 once kindled1  
been turned to ashes4 ,may the ,heavenly
 ,father give us the strength to endure4
  ,so cries out our young ,christian    
soldier1 almost fallen in the last      
trench of the hard battle2 a cry for    
help1 but a cry1 too1 of fealty1 to his 
great ,captain4 ,one by one his arms    
have been stripped from his feeble      
grasp--he cannot even exhort in prayer  
meeting6--and how fondly he remembers   
the date of his last sermon6--and no    
little ,allene 7,i shall never love     
another child so well1 he says7--no     

fighting brother ,james to carry on the 
standard4 ,but he still hopes he may get
 to ,australia for missionary service4  
,we1 who cannot share his hopes1 can at 
least rejoice that he began duty so     
young2 for consider this2 in the few    
years of his ministry1 he has done more 
for ,christ1 than many a man of sixty4  
,his beloved schoolmate1 ,oliver ,carr1 
stands much in the danger of ,james     
,myles4 ,his energies are all gone--we  
do not say wasted1 but spent2 a vacation
 is imperative1 and the missionary turns
 toward ,south ,australia1 whence have  
come the letters from ,magarey and      
,gore1 and ,gore's father-in-law1       
,philip ,santo4 ,mr4 ,carr goes thither 
on a visit to these three--the rich     
miller1 the evangelist and editor1 and  
the rich iron monger4 ,this holiday     
furnishes us with the concluding series 
of the present chapter4 ,the time is the
 ,australian spring 7or ,american ,fall7
 of #ahga4  ,mr4 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr3  
,i am in ,brother ,gore's study at      

,clapham1 safe and sick4 ,i was met by  
,santo1 7,m4 ,p47 ,earl 7who failed in  
his attempt to bring over ,american gold
 for our ,australian ,college7 ,moysey  
7who sold his calf some time ago to buy 
school books1 not in vain7 ,gore 7who   
has a new baby1 ,t4 ,j41 ,jr41 by name1 
and affords the ,australianized         
,kentuckian a fresh vantage point from  
which to argue against homesickness7 and
 many others4 ,i never was so thoroughly
 seasick4 ,i was on the bed or couch    
from one harbor to the other4 ,i'm sick 
yet4 ,brother ,gore and ,i came near    
talking all last night through4 ,i've   
been asked many questions about ,miss   
,ettie 7,gore's sister-in-law1 who wrote
 to her father1 ,i love you1 and who is 
still attending ,mrs4 ,carr's           
boarding-school47  ,he writes the next  
day3 ,i've gotten off my sea-legs1 but  
my health is no better4 ,we drove out to
 ,magarey's and the family were glad to 
see us 7no talk of sore-headed bears1 we
 may conclude74 ,alex4 is well1 7who    

preaches while his brother practices47  
,for the first time1 ,i pulled ripe     
oranges from the tree4 ,we talked       
incessantly4 ,i ate six before dinner4  
7,the talk1 then1 not quite incessant67 
,this country about ,adelaide is a level
 plain for #bjj miles around the        
seashore1 girt by hills like those at   
,maysville on the ,kentucky side4 ,in   
the early morning1 as ,i look at those  
hills and the lovely plains silvered    
with light1 all is so much like home    
that my heart rises in my mouth1 and ,i 
could almost say poetry6 ,adelaide seems
 to have been laid out for about        
#bjj1jjj people1 but only about #cj1jjj 
have come2 so the spaces between the    
houses have been made into lawns and    
fragrant gardens4 ,it is truly a rural  
place4 ,the houses are principally      
one-story1 with gardens1 trees1 etc4 ,i 
only wish you were here to enjoy it4 ,we
 talked about ,kentucky ,university and 
the 'boys1' etc41 all day long4 ,these  
are just my kind of folk6  ,mr4 ,carr a 

few days later3 ,i am resting1 oh1 so   
good6 ,i'm as easy as an old shoe--,i   
wrote that while looking at ,brother    
,santo1 who had just come in to sauce   
me4 ,he is a good man2 ,i have a deal of
 fun with him4 ,i get on the scales     
nearly every day to see if ,i've        
fattened4 ,i wish you could breathe this
 clear1 fresh air1 and the perfume of   
the roses6 ,i can hardly stop in the    
house long enough to write a letter4 ,i 
baptized one last night4 ,i told you how
 scattered the houses of ,adelaide      
are--no danger of anybody's getting     
killed by being run over4 ,this air is  
so clear that you can distinctly see the
 bodies of the trees and the cows       
grazing on the hills1 six miles away4   
,tell ,miss ,ettie ,i don't blame her   
for being homesick for a place like     
this2 all the family are just like ,miss
 ,ettie1 so you would like them all4    
,mrs4 ,carr to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,i am        
distressed over ,dr4 ,campbell's        
diagnosis4 ,if your right lung is weak1 

a few more weeks' preaching in the hall 
would bring on disease4 ,now1 my dear   
husband1 the best thing that you could  
do1 is to act the part of a rational    
being by taking the doctor's advice4 ,if
 you will spend the summer in ,tasmania 
7whither our friend ,geo4 ,smith has    
gone to make tall silk hats17 ,i will   
gladly stay here in ,melbourne for your 
sake4 ,if you ought to return to        
,america before the building of the     
,chapel--in other words1 before the     
,cause is firmly established in         
,collingwood1--,i am willing to do that 
or anything to re-establish your health4
 ,these are only suggestions2 your own  
judgment must decide4 ,no consideration 
could induce me to oppose you in any    
course the doctor might pronounce4      
,ollie1 take good care of yourself4 ,i  
am glad you and ,brother ,gore are going
 to the mountains4 ,climb ,mt4 ,lofty1  
if it is accessible4 ,you won't be able 
to tease ,ettie about her country1 when 
you return1 you are so enthusiastic     

about its beauties4 ,my birthday party  
passed off happily4 ,my girls surprised 
me with a beautiful toast rack1 butter  
knife and candlestick4 ,it was a real   
surprise4 ,we had delightful music4 ,two
 complimentary tickets just came for you
 from the ,town ,hall4 ,ettie and ,i    
will have the tickets1 and you can have 
the honor4 ,may the ,lord bless you1 my 
darling1 and give you the strength to   
accomplish your proposed work in this   
land4 ,i will be as economical as ,i    
can1 that your health may not suffer for
 want of travel4 ,your large donation to
 the ,chapel ,fund will make things a   
little hard1 but the ,lord will supply  
us in a way that we know not4  ,mr4     
,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i have been with 
,alex4 to see such sights from the top  
of ,mt4 ,lofty1 as ,i cannot describe4  
,the ,magareys have done their best to  
make me happy1 and oh1 ,i do enjoy it6  
,we went to church2 ,brother ---- gave  
us the fall of ,jericho4 ,we got home at
 #i1 enjoyed our cocoa1 then to rest4   

,brother ,gore is going to give his     
class a two weeks' holiday2 then we will
 go fishing1 and sit on the fence6 ,we  
have great audiences here1 our ,cause is
 very strong in this country2 and yet   
there are only about #cej real members  
7year #ahgj7 in ,adelaide2 the faithful 
are few6  ,mrs4 ,carr to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,i 
miss your wise counsel and kind         
encouragement in the discharge of       
duties4 ,i would not wish to live       
without you2 ,i feel that ,i could not4 
,i hope you will write to ,brother      
,albert ,myles without delay4 ,in his   
present health1 he must be greatly      
crushed by the death of his brother4 ,if
 you do not take the rest you require1  
you will go as perhaps ,brother ,albert 
is going4 ,the ,lord bless ,brothers    
,santo and ,gore for their goodness to  
you6 ,ollie1 ,i wish you would write    
more of what you feel1 and less of what 
you see4 ,i want to know if you are any 
better1 and ,i want to know ,dr4        
,campbell's opinion in full4 ,ettie and 

,i enjoyed the annual meeting of the    
deaf and dumb at the ,town ,hall4 ,we   
had a representation of a cricket match2
 and the battle of ,hastings4 ,how did  
you happen to write ',six shillings are 
too much for the book8' ,in my opinion  
you should have said ',six shillings are
 too many1' or1 'is too much4' ,i called
 on the ,american consul's wife2 both   
are pleasant people4 ,i am still        
determined to keep you in ,tasmania two 
or three months during the summer1 even 
if ,i have to keep lodgers4  ,mr4 ,carr 
to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i find no fault in what
 you have written for the ,times1 why   
you should not have it published4 ,i    
return you the ,,ms4 with my approval4  
,brother ,gore and ,i went by coach to a
 fine old ,english tavern at ,port      
,elliott where we staid till ,saturday4 
,i got you some shells4 ,we wandered    
over the beautiful fields1 gathering the
 wild flowers daily1 and hourly left our
 little 787 footprints on the beach to  
be washed away4 ,i wish you could have  

seen that view6 ,mattie1 do you think ,i
 would let you stop at home and slave   
away1 for me to have all the fun1 just  
because of what ,dr4 ,campbell says     
about one lung8 ,i am glad your birthday
 party passed off so well4 ,many thanks 
for the flowers from your bouquet4      
,mrs4 ,carr to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,i am sending
 you an article for the ,times1 for you 
to criticise4 ,return it to me and ,i   
will send it to ,brother ,mc,garvey1 as 
,i want to write to him4 ,if there is   
anything in the article you disapprove1 
underline it1 and perhaps ,i will omit4 
,that which you cannot tolerate1 doubly 
underline1 and ,i will certainly strike 
it out4 ,does the little boy really cry 
for you1 when you start for town1 or    
isn't it for ,brother ,gore8 ,thanks for
 the nice flowers4 ,i appreciate such a 
remembrance from my 'prosy husband4' ,if
 ,ettie returns next year1 ,i will keep 
you in ,tasmania for your health three  
months4 ,she is such a good girl1 ,i    
love her more every day4 ,i miss you    

more than ,i can tell1 darling2 but ,i  
have made up my mind to do what is best 
for you4 ,brother ,dick remembered you  
at morning service1 yesterday4 ,it is   
after eleven now1 and ,i must read some 
,french before ,i sleep4  ,mr4 ,carr to 
,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i am sorry ,i wrote you   
anything about ,dr4 ,campbell's         
notion--,i believe you called it a      
'diagnosis4' ,there is nothing serious4 
,my breathing is all right1--but my     
unbreathing isn't perfect4 ,but ,i think
 ,i'm coming round finely4 ,i shall     
certainly write to ,albert ,myles4      
,brother ,santo is teasing me--,i can't 
write4 ,he is such a jolly good soul4   
,he has been put up for the ,upper      
,house1 and is pretty sure to go in4    
,much excitement about it4 ,brother     
,gore and ,i tease him all the time4    
,mrs4 ,carr to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,i still     
insist upon that ,tasmania trip4 ,sister
 ,smith is confident you can do much    
good there during your two months' rest4
 7,sister ,smith is the ,jane ,nash1    

once a ,catholic1 whom ,geo4 ,smith left
 when he accepted his position in       
,tasmania4 ,ever since the hatter went  
thither1 he has urged the ,carrs to come
 and establish a ,church of ,christ2 now
 that he has married ,jane1 he has a    
faithful ally in sending the call for   
help to ,melbourne47 ,expenses are      
running up1 and ,i have no way to meet  
the bills2 but the ,lord has helped us  
in the past1 and he will in the future4 
,your trip to ,adelaide has put us in   
debt2 but never mind1 we will get out2  
just now1 we must restore my darling's  
health4 ,your letter was read to the    
church last ,lord's day1 and all were   
rejoiced at the improvement of your     
health4 ,they say it is a shame you have
 never had a long rest after three      
constant years of labor6 ,they desire   
very much your recovery1 for they know  
how much depends upon you at            
,collingwood4 ,i am writing on your     
table in ,ettie's room4 ,she occupies   
your study and will till you return4    

,aren't we saucy girls6 ,but you will be
 so glad to see us1 you won't scold4 ,my
 eyes are closing--so good night1 my    
love4  ,illustration3 ,in ,botanical    
,garden1 ,melbourne  ,illustration3 ,in 
,botanical ,garden1 ,melbourne          
,illustration3 ,town ,hall1 ,melbourne  
,seats #d1jjj on ,first ,floor          
,illustration3 ,in ,botanical ,garden   
,mr4 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,had a long  
talk with ,sister ---- 4 ,she is too    
despondent to be a happy woman4 ,there's
 no use in such a thing as that4 ,be    
cheerful and happy6 ,i wish you were    
with me here at ,two ,wells4 ,i was at  
the ,port yesterday1 #g miles away1 and 
got to fishing and got several bites1   
and came near catching a fish4 ,i had   
him near the top of the boat1 but he--  
7,ah1 yes67 ,i am now at ,north         
,adelaide1 at ,magarey's4 ,everybody in 
the room is talking away1 telling me    
what to write--write this and           
that--',tell ,mrs4 ,carr that joke on   
you1' etc4 ,such a pleasant             

visit6--talk1 music1 etc41 and ,i played
 drafts and beat them badly every time1 
and then threatened to beat my          
antagonist with the board4 ,brother     
,thomas ,magarey and ,i had a long walk 
and talk4 ,he is a fine man and is sorry
 for ever having misunderstood me1 and  
been led to think strange of us4 ,he    
shows a great interest in your work4    
,in the next chapter1 we enter upon that
 ,tasmanian visit which was destined to 
be of far greater proportions than ,mrs4
 ,carr at first planned4 ,as a final    
word on the life at ,melbourne1 we quote
 from ,mrs4 ,carr's diary1 when all were
 together in the work3  ,my evening     
class as usual4 ,ollie is with his      
,adelphian that he loves so well4 ,how  
it has grown in favor under his good and
 gentle guidance6 ,how delightful to see
 him yield a ,christian influence over  
the hearts of those destined to become  
the pillars of the church6  ,took two   
young ladies to ,chapel4 ,they had never
 seen a baptism before1 and were        

favorably impressed4  ,had a talk with  
my dear husband on the ,baptism of      
,jesus and ,john4 ,how hard ,i try to be
 worthy of ,ollie6  ,ollie went to      
officers' meeting after preaching1 and  
came home after twelve1 much exhausted4 
,blessed ,savior give him health and    
strength1 and keep me humble4  ,wrote to
 ,president ,williams about my plan for 
an ,australian ,college4 ,blessed       
,savior1 give my husband strength to    
labor for ,thee4     ,,chapter ,,xii4   
,,experiences ,,in ,,tasmania4   ,the   
following extracts from letters of #ahgb
 furnish an interesting account of the  
removal from ,melbourne to ,hobart      
,town1 ,tasmania4 ,mr4 ,carr writes to  
,mrs4 ,carr3 ,arrived at ,lancaster1    
safe but sick1 ,january #fth4 ,we set   
out for the ,temperance ,hotel1 but it  
had become intemperate and gorged with  
guests before we got there4 ,we went on1
 and have struck a bargain with an old  
woman who charges us one-six for each   
meal1 and one-six every time we sleep4  

,i came near stealing a march on my     
landlady by falling asleep this         
afternoon without the old lady's knowing
 it4 ,pretty high fare1 but we are high 
up in the second story4 ,called on a    
,church of ,england acquaintance2 he    
didn't invite me to his residence1 but  
asked me to his pew4 ,the coach doesn't 
leave for ,hobart ,town till ,tuesday at
 #e a4 m4 ,this place is just now taken 
by storm by pleasure parties from       
,melbourne2 ,i suppose they will go on  
to ,hobart ,town4 ,i am better to-day4  
,i do believe if ,i stayed here1 ,i     
could establish a church4 ,the people   
are delighted to hear of your teaching1 
and of your plan of teaching4 ,shall ,i 
get you any boarding pupils8 ,i believe 
this climate will be good for me4       
,january #aj4 ,we arrived at ,hobart    
,town last evening4 ,brother ,smith was 
at the ,coach ,office1 by chance or     
providence4 ,there were #dh passengers4 
,it was a very large open coach and we  
had a fine view of the country from     

,launceston to ,hobart4 ,all the cabmen 
and mischievous boys in the country     
flocked around to see why such a big    
affair had come to town4 ,we were very  
cordially received by ,brother and      
,sister ,smith1 and after cocoa1 went to
 bed1 and that was delightful1 too4 ,it 
is raining today1 and ,i feel wretchedly
 dull and bad4 ,i can hardly sit up4    
,january #ae4 ,i do trust you are not   
discouraged4 ,i am not4 ,remember you   
are a child of ,god1 and all things work
 together for your good4 ,i believe ,i  
have come to ,hobart ,town just at the  
right time1 and the ,lord will bless my 
coming to the good of this people1 and  
the restoration of my health4 ,i am     
enjoying the hospitality of ,brother and
 ,sister ,smith1 who show me every      
attention4 ,she prepares many nice      
things for me to eat1 and he has given  
me a fine new hat4 ,i have a front room 
and a parlor all to myself1 and the     
climate suits me exactly4 ,brother      
,smith and ,i went to the ,baptist      

prayer meeting1 and afterwards1 they    
insisted that ,i preach on ,lord's day4 
,they asked me many questions1 to which 
,i returned ,scriptural answers2 ,i told
 them all about the church to which ,i  
belong1 and what ,i preach2 and they    
agreed1 and ,i came home on tiptoe4     
,the next night ,i went to ,town ,hall  
where the different preachers had been  
preaching all week4 ,sunday morning ,i  
preached at the ,baptist chapel to a    
good audience4 ,then we ate the ,lord's 
supper4 ,i insisted on the ancient order
 of things--especially on meeting the   
first day of the week to break bread4   
,they were delighted1 and said ,i must  
preach in their chapel whenever ,i      
wanted to speak4 ,there is a prayer     
meeting held every day at noon1 and     
preaching held three or four times a    
week in the people's hall2 but oh1 they 
are so benighted6 ,they don't know the  
,gospel in its beauty and power4 ,i just
 burn to preach to them4 ,i will1 if ,i 
get half a chance4  ,january #bj4 ,i am 

called on from every quarter to speak4  
,all seem interested in my sermons4     
,things look bright1 now2 but ,i fear   
they will soon become prejudiced against
 the truth4  ,january #bg4 ,i agree with
 you about the brick ,chapel1 and leave 
it all to you4 ,i do hope they will not 
put up a wooden one4 ,but they had      
better not have any ,chapel1 than to    
quarrel over it4 ,if the majority say a 
wooden ,chapel1 a wooden one let it be4 
,i don't believe in the ,collingwood    
,church's going down4 ,the faithful will
 remain faithful1 despite a ,chapel4    
,the people here are becoming           
enthusiastic4 ,among my large audience  
,thursday night1 ,i had two preachers4  
,the people say they never heard such   
preaching in their lives4 ,i am trying  
to work them around on ,apostolic       
grounds4 ,now1 ,mattie1 do not think all
 for me1 and nothing for yourself4 ,i   
could never forgive myself if ,i came   
here for my health1 and you overworked4 
,do not let the building of the ,chapel 

take too much of your strength4         
,february #f4 ,last ,lord's day ,i spoke
 on #ac',my ,sheep' and there were about
 half a dozen of the higher             
,calvinists--who own the ,chapel--who   
were not pleased4 ,they will hold a     
church meeting next ,thursday to decide 
whether or not ,i am to preach in their 
,chapel any more4 ,perhaps if they turn 
me out of their place it will be for the
 best1 because the people who have been 
thronging there1 do not believe in      
,calvinism2 ,i am sure none would take  
steps to the ,savior in that church1    
while ,i am preaching4 ,i could rent a  
hall for eight1 a week1 and think after 
a while ,i can have a church here4 ,the 
people meet me on the street and take me
 by the hand and say1 ',i do wish you   
were going to live here1' etc4 ,last    
,lord's day1 ,i spoke on the wharf to   
what is said to have been the largest   
audience ever assembled there4 ,i am    
going to speak tonight at the ,people's 
,hall4 ,but you must not think1 dear    

,mattie1 ,i am overdoing my strength2   
for it is no harder to preach than to go
 out to tea and talk4  ,february #aj4   
,great excitement in church affairs4 ,i 
preached on ,john #aj3bg1 and the       
audience was much interested1 even      
excited1 so that they began to talk in  
the yard about the absurdity of the     
church's bringing me to task4 ,but ,i   
went in to my trial4 ,one of the deacons
 made the motion that because ,i        
preached that it was possible for one   
who had been converted1 to fall away and
 be lost1 and because ,i said that      
,christ died for all1 the ,chapel be no 
longer tendered to me4#ad ,the motion   
was put1 and only this deacon and two   
others voted for it4 ,one man would not 
vote either way1 and four voted in the  
negative4 ,the chairman announced that  
,i could use the ,chapel when ,i liked1 
only three being opposed4 ,but ,i       
declined to accept the offer1 and       
yesterday tried all day to get a place  
to preach in2 but was told in each      

place1 ,no1 it would injure the other   
congregations1 by drawing away their    
members4 ,i am going to preach on the   
wharf tomorrow1 where ,i will have a    
larger audience than ,i could ever have 
at the ,chapel4 ,the cause of the       
,master will not be hurt by this        
opposition4 ,the editor of a weekly     
paper has offered me one page to edit   
religiously1 and thus ,i will preach to 
the people4 ,brother and ,sister ,smith 
and ,i sat up late last night talking   
over the situation4 ,she cried like a   
child and he is so excited over the     
matter that he doesn't know what to do4 
,they will give us a room as long as we 
can stay4 ,you must come4  ,february    
#aa4 ,to-day has been one of great      
anxiety4 ,as ,i could not get a hall to 
preach in1 ,i thought it best to go to  
the ,baptist ,chapel as a hearer4 ,the  
deacon of whom ,i wrote yesterday1      
preached in a vexing manner and ,brother
 ,smith was highly wrought up over the  
misrepresentations of my position4 ,i   

preached on the wharf to a large throng 
in the afternoon1 and at night heard a  
celebrated ,congregationalist4 ,i was so
 disappointed at passing one ,lord's day
 evening without preaching the ,word1   
that ,i was unable to give him a fair   
hearing4 ,the people are in a furor     
because ,i cannot get a place to preach 
in4 ,one lady whom ,i have never met1   
offers to give ,l#e toward erecting some
 sort of shed1 that ,i may have a place 
to preach4 ,i am not discouraged4 ,not  
even in ,old ,kentucky did ,i ever see  
so much interest manifested4 ,the ,lord 
will surely make some way here that his 
,truth may be heard4  ,from ,mrs4 ,carr 
to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,my heart is full of you 
and your mission1 and prayers for your  
success4 ,i believe the ,lord will bless
 your efforts4 ,i am determined that you
 shall have a hall to preach in1 ,i know
 you will never sacrifice any of the    
fullness of the ,gospel1 hence you      
cannot continue at the ,baptist ,chapel4
 ,i send you ,l#h that you may rent a   

first-class hall4 ,this ,i have         
borrowed1 and ,i would borrow for       
nothing but to further your efforts in  
the ,gospel4 ,people ask me if you have 
had any ',results4' ,do not write to any
 one but me1 of your labors1 until you  
have had what the people call           
',results1'--until at least #bj have    
obeyed the ,gospel4 ,i will pay your    
rent until then1 and after that you may 
be sure of the hearty co-operation of   
the churches4 ,it is the work performed 
that determines the value of any        
instrumentality4 ,at least1 that is the 
opinion of the churches2 and their idea 
of work performed is embodied in        
',converts1' or1 as some say1           
',results4' ,and they are not wholly    
wrong4 ,don't write to others about your
 work until you have success4 ,the ,l#h 
will rent a hall for two months at ,l#a 
per week1 and by that time you will     
certainly have some ',results4' ,but    
don't forget to take care of my         
darling's health4 ,i do trust that your 

success will be such that you can stay  
three months longer4 ,a gentleman we met
 in ,london at ,mr4 ,murby's1 called    
with letters and papers from ,mrs4      
,murby4 ,she says we must make up our   
minds to a long stay with her in        
,london1 on our return to ,kentucky4    
,we resume ,mr4 ,carr's letters to ,mrs4
 ,carr3 ,i have done it4 ,i have rented 
one of the best places in the city1 ,odd
 ,fellows' ,hall1 for #ac-i per week1   
including cleaning1 gas1 etc4 ,am now at
 the printing office getting out        
posters4 ,we are to have six hymns      
printed for next ,lord's day4 ,i will   
ask baptized believers to remain after  
the sermon1 to see how many members of  
the church there will be4 ,tell ,brother
 ,dick to send #ej hymn books1 with     
bill4 ,and tell him to send my baptizing
 suit in the same box4  ,february #ai4  
,our first day at the hall was a very   
successful one4 ,the house was crowded  
and the people stood at the door4 ,poor 
,brother ,smith is hardly able to       

contain himself for joy4 ,on ,tuesday we
 meet to organize a church4 ,don't      
forget to send that baptizing suit4     
,february #bj4 ,to-night 7,tuesday7 we  
met in a side room of the ,odd ,fellows'
 ,hall and talked on the basis of union4
 ,i answered their questions1 and we had
 a happy time4 ,then ,i asked all to    
hold up their hands who were in favor of
 taking simply the ,new ,testament as   
their rule of faith and practice1 and   
nearly every one held up his hand4      
,fifteen of those who had been baptized1
 gave me their names1 pledging          
themselves to live by the ,word of ,god4
 ,so you see1 we have a start even in   
,hobart ,town4  ,february #bg4 ,lord's  
day evening the hall was crowded2 some  
stood1 some sat on the floor4 ,there are
 some candidates for baptism1 but a     
difficulty has arisen4 ,the three who   
objected to my preaching1 do not want to
 let me have the use of the baptistry4  
,they have called a church meeting to   
which ,i am invited to explain what ,i  

make of baptism4#ae ,in the morning we  
met at the hall to break bread1 so ,i   
regard the church as begun in ,hobart   
,town4 ,our collection from the #ae who 
have taken their stand with us1 was     
#a-f-j last ,lord's day morning4 ,pretty
 good for a start1 isn't it8 ,i will    
soon be able to return that money you   
borrowed4 ,there is no communion service
 in ,hobart ,town1 and ,i had to send to
 ,melbourne for one4  ,march #e4 ,our   
evening audiences are increasing1 but   
only a few meet to break bread in the   
morning4 ,the people are so ignorant of 
everything pertaining to ,christianity1 
that ,i have to teach them as if they   
were children1 sure enough4 ,many never 
heard of what ,i preach2 and while they 
admit the truth of it1 they stand aloof4
 ,about #ejj read each week my religious
 page of the ,advance4 ,that is better  
than tracts4 ,come to ,tasmania6 ,i am  
sure you could do a good work here1 and 
this climate would restore your health4 
,we will treat you1 oh so well6 ,let me 

know when to expect you1 and ,i will go 
out and sit on the wharf and wait for   
you4  ,mrs4 ,carr to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,the   
,southern ,cross leaves ,melbourne the  
#bfth of ,march1 the anniversary of our 
wedding4 ,i wish we could be together in
 ,hobart ,town on that day4 ,i will     
bring my piano4 ,if you are on the wharf
 at #f3cj ,thursday morning you will see
 your wife4 ,but ,i'll not expect you   
there1 for ,i remember your motto--',he 
who cannot rest his head upon his pillow
 and enjoy his forty morning winks1 is  
up to knavery1 or else he drinks6' ,at  
the tea meeting everybody asked about   
you1 and expressed joy at your success4 
,the brethren are delighted that you    
have established a church in ,tasmania4 
,no1 ,i will not bring ,sister ,smith a 
half dozen reams of cotton2 paper is    
sold by the ream2 but thread by the     
gross2 perhaps you meant reels4 ,it does
 seem strange that in less than a week1 
,i'll see my husband6 ,i scarcely know  
how ,i'll behave myself6 ,an appeal was 

made to the ,lygon street church for    
assistance to ,collingwood1 in the      
erection of a brick chapel4 ,all        
thoughts of a wooden building have been 
abandoned1 and harmony is prevailing4 ,i
 am sure ,i'll get pupils on the piano  
and guitar when we are established at   
,hobart ,town4 ,president ,williams'    
last words to me were1 ',only believe1  
,mattie1 and the light of his face will 
always shine upon you4' ,i believe the  
,lord will open a way for our support1  
if not through my labors1 in some other 
way4 ,i am going to have your faith1    
,ollie1 and ,i know ,i'll be happy4     
,take good care of yourself4 ,i'm sure  
you work too hard4 ,remember your work  
and your wife1 and take care of your    
health6  ,the reader who has followed   
the preceding pages does not need to be 
told why the ,carrs finally left        
,australia4 ,the admonition which each  
constantly gave the other--,take care of
 your health1--could not be observed4   
,even on holidays1 as we have seen1 hard

 work came pressing at the door2 and the
 climate was never favorable to the     
constitution of the missionaries4 ,they 
left1 at last2 but the ,collingwood     
,church established through their       
efforts1 remains to perpetuate their    
influence4 ,at ,hobart ,town1 success   
came in spite of active opposition4     
,when ,mr4 ,carr was challenged with the
 inquiry1 ',what do you think is the    
design of baptism8'--his reply was as   
follows3  ',he that believes and is     
baptized shall be saved4' ,that is what 
the ,savior says4 ,that is what ,i      
think4  ,this reply was so              
unsatisfactory that he was refused the  
use of the baptistry4 ,the town1 less   
scrupulous in its views1 proffered the  
use of public baths4 ,the public would  
assemble upon the porch of the bathroom1
 and1 in the salt water1 the converts   
would be immersed4 ,it was not in vain  
that ,mr4 ,carr preached on ,my sheep   
hear my voice4 ,the entire ,baptist     
,church with the exception of six came  

to the congregation at the rented hall4 
,at the end of three months1 ,mrs4 ,carr
 joined her husband4 ,during the year in
 ,tasmania1 they lived with the ,smiths4
 ,mrs4 ,carr taught music1 and she and  
,mrs4 ,smith made sailors' caps and sold
 them to help on with the missionary    
work4 ,whaling ships came in there1 and 
the demand for sailors' caps was        
unceasing4  ,but while ,mrs4 ,carr thus 
lived in partial seclusion1 sewing and  
teaching music lessons1 her thoughts    
reached far beyond the straitened       
opportunities of the colonies4 ,five    
years from the native land had resulted 
so far as visible results went1 in the  
establishment of two churches1 one in   
,melbourne1 one in ,hobart ,town4 ,such 
accomplishments were well worth the     
sacrifices they had demanded1 but they  
were achievements aside from those      
definite ideals which she had formed at 
the beginning of her school life4 ,her  
boarding school in ,melbourne had done  
much good1 but it was not a permanent   

institution2 with her departure1 it     
passed away2 and she was resolved that  
out of her life should come a monumental
 school1 which1 though she departed1    
should remain4 ,her plans conflicted    
with her husband's intense zeal for     
souls1 hence she quietly worked away at 
sailors' caps1 and agreed1 if he thought
 best1 to go next to ,new ,zealand for  
the ,cause4 ,but at last1 when it became
 manifest that his health demanded a    
rest from work too great for even a     
strong man1 and a decided change of     
climate1 she declared for a return to   
,america4 ,to go back meant not only the
 probable regaining of his health1 but  
the carrying out of her educational     
ambitions2 and in order the better to   
perfect herself in her chosen work1 and 
to secure the needed rest for both1 she 
resolved that they should spend the next
 year in travel1 studying the countries 
of the ,orient1 and dwelling among the  
hills round about ,jerusalem4  ,mr4     
,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr1 from ,hobart      

,town1 ,january #ag1 #ahgc3 ,last night 
we had our ,tea ,meeting and oh6 such a 
,tea it was6 ,everybody seemed pleased  
with everything but one abominably long 
address4 ,the speech of the evening had 
much about you2 'a lady of such rare    
abilities1' 'your condescension in      
coming amongst them1' 'they would never 
find your equal1' etc4 ,the good you    
have done1 your kindness to all1 your   
talents1 were dwelt upon by nearly every
 speaker4 ,poor ,brother ,jones could   
hardly restrain his feelings4 ,he said  
he had never seen your like4 ,the       
singing was splendid4 ,the room was most
 tastefully decorated4 ',farewell to    
,brother and ,sister ,carr for a        
season1' and ',welcome to ,brother ,g4  
,b4 ,moysey1' were the letters hanging  
about4 7,mr4 ,carr's successor at       
,hobart ,town was that ,moysey who had  
sold his calf for learning47 ,after     
,brother ,moysey's first sermon on      
,lord's day1 there was one confession4  
,it was a grand sermon1--he is just the 

man for the place and ,i am sure will do
 a splendid work here4 ,everybody sends 
love to you4 ,i am so excited1 ,i'm ill4
 ,i do hate to go from here4 ,i never   
knew before how much ,i thought of this 
people4 ,i have spent three days taking 
,brother ,moysey around to see the      
people in their homes4 ,i am so sorry to
 hear of your illness4 ,take good care  
of your health4 ,love to ,brothers      
,gore1 ,santo1 and everybody--dear me6  
,i can write no more4   #ac ,see        
appendix4  #ad ,see appendix1 ,my       
,sheep4  #ae ,see appendix4             
,,chapter ,,xiii4  ,,travels ,,in ,,the 
,,orient4   ,an account of one's travels
 in lands far from the scene of one's   
life-work1 has no proper place in       
biography1 unless such travels reveal or
 develop characteristics of the         
traveler4 ,no matter how wide-spread may
 be the interest in the countries       
traversed1 the biographer has no right  
to convey his reader from land to land1 
simply because the feet of his subject  

have gone on before4 ,we would1         
therefore1 pass over the oriental       
experiences of ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr with
 but a word1 if we did not have before  
us extensive notes on the journey1 in   
,mrs4 ,carr's own hand4  ,the fact that 
she wrote of her experiences1 makes them
 at once of biographical value1 for we  
are enabled to observe the reaction of  
peoples and countries upon her own mind4
 ,while it is true that these notes were
 made that she might tell others what   
she had seen1 it must be remembered that
 they were not intended for publication4
  ,on a beautiful ,may morning1 the pet 
steamer of the ,peninsular and ,oriental
 ,line1 with all canvas spread1 was     
skimming the smooth waters of the       
,indian ,ocean4 ,no albatross of        
ill-omen hovered round our ship4 ,the   
passengers1 light-hearted and joyous1   
were chatting under the awning1--when   
the man at the wheel shouted1 ',fire6   
fire6'  ,at that awful word1 every man  
of the crew was at his post1 while pale 

passengers stared at each other1        
fainting women fell into trembling arms1
 and the children caught the contagion  
of fear4 ,suddenly our ,captain turned  
his wide-mouthed trumpet upon us and    
shouted3  ',ladies and gentlemen1 ,i beg
 your pardon2 the crew is on a fire     
drill6' ,those who had fainted1 never   
forgave him for his failure to notify   
them of what was to happen4  ,a night of
 excitement succeeded4 ,about ten       
o'clock1 while we were on deck1 enjoying
 the balmy air of the tropics1 the sharp
 report of a pistol was heard1 its flash
 gleamed for an instant on the          
waters1--and a suicide had cast a gloom 
over all4 ,a night of watching by the   
dead passed1 and at the rising of the   
sun we witnessed a burial at sea4 ,the  
body1 enclosed in a canvas sack and     
weighted with iron1 was laid upon a     
latticed bier close to the opened       
gangway4 ,it was held in place by two   
guards lest1 even in that calm sea1 a   
sudden tilt of the ship send it into its

 grave before the time4 ,the service of 
the ,church of ,england was read2 then  
the body fell heavily into the waters1  
there to remain until the coming of that
 sound which is to penetrate even the   
depths of old ocean4  ,a few days sail  
brought us to the luxuriant shores of   
,ceylon4 ,we spent several days driving 
over the beautiful island1 through      
cocoanut and banana groves and cinnamon 
gardens1 inhaling the spicy breezes1 and
 sorrowing over the degradation of the  
people4  ,from this beautiful but       
sin-cursed isle1 our ship soon brought  
us through the straits of               
,bab-el-,mandeb1 and anchored at ,aden1 
on the barren shores of ,arabia4 ,near  
,aden are situated the immense tanks    
holding millions of gallons of water1   
without which the land would be         
uninhabitable4 ,continuing our voyage up
 the ,red ,sea1 we passed ,mocha1       
renowned for its coffee1 and in due time
 arrived at the gate-entrance of the    
great ,sinaitic ,peninsula1--,suez4     

,suez1 washed upon one side by the sea1 
is encircled upon the others by the     
barren wastes of the desert4 ,no tree1  
shrub1 or blade of grass1 relieves the  
gloomy sterility of the landscape4 ,we  
hasten on by rail4 ,soon a long1 low    
line of water appears1 just beside the  
railroad track4 ,behold1 it is the      
,nile--that river cradled in the depths 
of mysterious caverns1 forcing its way  
through granite ledges and mountain     
barriers1 rushing over cataracts1       
foaming through narrows1 then flowing   
gently onward1 singing amid perpetual   
sunshine1 until it empties by its seven 
mouths into the great blue sea4 ,a river
 which has a place in history by the    
side of the ,euphrates and the ,jordan2 
a river which the ,egyptians worshiped1 
and the miracle of whose waters made a  
,pharaoh tremble2 a river on whose banks
 perished ,thebes with her hundred      
gates1 and ,memphis with her monuments2 
a river that has seen the coming of     
,ethiopian and ,persian1 ,macedonian and

 ,roman1 ,saracen and ,turk1 in         
fulfillment of the curse ,god spoke     
through ,ezekiel4  ,after stopping at   
numerous stations where we were greeted 
by sights1 sounds1 and odors peculiar to
 the coarse civilization of the ,orient1
 the minarets of ,cairo and the pyramids
 of ,gizeh looked down upon us4 ,after a
 minute examination of the pyramids 7,i 
omit a thoughtful and logical           
disquisition on the various problems    
presented by these monuments7 we drove  
back to ,cairo under the grateful shade 
of the lebbekh trees1 over a fine       
macadamized road1 built in #ahfh in     
honor of the ,prince and ,princess of   
,wales4 ,after a pleasant and profitable
 talk with the ,american consul1 who    
kindly came to bring us our passports1  
and to invite us to dine with him1 we   
reviewed1 as usual1 the scenes of the   
day1 and rested as only weary           
sight-seers can rest4  ,early the next  
morning1 we drove through the           
,esbekeeyah1 the ,corso of ,cairo1 on   

our way to ,heliopolis4 ,it is easily   
identified from a distance by the oldest
 obelisk in ,egypt1 bearing the name of 
the founder of the ,,xxii4 dynasty4 ,in 
,scripture1 ,heliopolis is called ,on4  
,moses is said to have studied here1 and
 ,joseph's father-in-law was a priest of
 its renowned temple4 ,here ,plato lived
 for thirteen years4 ,it seems to have  
been literally a city of obelisks1 for  
it furnished all that have been         
transported to ,europe4 ,its destruction
 was prophesied by ,ezekiel4  ,the way  
to the magnificent palace of ,shoobra   
lies along a beautiful avenue of        
sycamore1 fig1 and acacia4 ,the ,shoobra
 road is the ',rotten ,row' of ,cairo4  
,it is perhaps the most republican      
promenade in the world4 ,no vehicle or  
animal is excluded4 ,the ,khedive and   
his outriders are jostled in most       
unseemly fashion by bare-boned donkeys  
whipped along by ragged urchins4        
,ministers1 consuls1 bankers1           
money-changers1 speculators1 singers1   

actors1 ballet-dancers1 adventurers1 and
 not least conspicuous1                 
,english-speaking tourists1 form a      
curious medley4 ,after a drive to the   
tombs of the ,caliphs through sand that 
buried our carriage wheels almost to the
 hub1 we spent a pleasant evening with  
the ,american consul and his            
accomplished wife in their beautiful    
oriental home1 then slept the dreamless 
sleep of the weary traveler4  ,in the   
early morning we mounted our donkeys    
which were ornamented gorgeously in     
oriental style4 ,these donkeys1 in honor
 of our nativity1 had been christened   
,uncle ,sam and ,yankee ,doodle4 ,we    
expressed our appreciation of such      
patriotic names1 when1 lo6 almost every 
donkey in ,cairo1 in the neighborhood of
 our hotel was suddenly transformed into
 an ,uncle ,sam or a ,yankee ,doodle4   
,but ,mr4 ,carr and ,i would not desert 
the first of the name4  ,i wish you     
could have seen us flying along the     
,nile at the rate of the ,western       

,lightning ,express1 ,eli1 without      
either bridle or mane to cling to1 our  
,english tongues crying1 ',stop6        
stop6'--which the ,arab ears of our     
muleteers interpreted into1 ',faster6   
faster6' ,our muleteers were very       
accommodating fellows1 and their        
interpretation encouraged them to       
renewed efforts to increase the speed of
 our donkeys1 by applying1 every thirty 
seconds1 a sharp-pointed steel          
instrument4 ,our ,english-speaking      
dragoman was too far ahead to hear our  
cries of distress as we rocked in the   
cradle of 7on7 the donkey4              
,illustration3 ,a ,new ,year's          
,reception  ,after an hour's most       
exciting ride1 we dismounted at the     
,museum of ,egyptian ,antiquities4 ,here
 is a mummy coffin1 whose hieroglyphics 
demonstrate that the ancient ,egyptians 
had a conception of hell and heaven1 and
 a belief in the immortality of the     
soul4 ,there is an inscription proving  
that the ,sphinx existed before the time

 of ,cheops2 and that even then1 the    
people were rich and civilized4 ,here   
are ancient knives1 scissors1 needles1  
etc41 but nothing is made of iron1 which
 they thought a bone of their evil      
genius4 ,here on exhibition are the     
magnificent jewels found on the mummy of
 ,queen ,aoh-,hotep1 the mother of the  
first king of the ,,xviii4 dynasty4     
,here can be found the confirmation of  
many narratives of the ,old ,testament4 
,the first great event in the ,kingdom  
of ,judah1 after its separation1 was the
 invasion of ,shishak1 king of ,egypt4  
,according to the sacred record1        
,shishak came against ,jerusalem with   
#a1bjj chariots and #fj1jjj horsemen1   
took the fenced cities1 and was about to
 invest the capital1 when ,rehoboam made
 his submission4  ,on the outside of the
 great temple at ,karnak1 hieroglyphics 
commemorate the success of ,shishak     
against ,judah1 and records a long list 
of captured towns--the fenced cities of 
,scripture4 ,the picture ,moses gives of

 a ,pharaoh ruling over an absolute     
monarchy1 finds confirmation in the     
ancient ,egyptian tombs4 ,from vast     
numbers of papyri1 we learn in detail of
 that old civilization--records which   
even ,herodotus was not able to read4   
,in these we find a counterpart of the  
picture of that country presented by    
,moses4 ,after a slumber of #c1jjj      
years1 these records present the people 
prostrating themselves1 the laborers    
storing away grain1 the baker with his  
three baskets upon his head1 the        
brickyards with ,jewish laborers        
supervised by ,egyptian taskmasters1    
etc4  ,in the ,museum of ,antiquities   
are statues of kings and queens who     
lived in the era between ,moses and     
,abraham4 ,in front of them is an       
immense glass case in which is deposited
 their crown jewels1 artistically       
executed4 ,among them is a massive gold 
chain1 more exquisitely beautiful than  
anything ,i saw in the ,tower1 among    
,victoria's crown jewels1 unless ,i     

except the ,kohinoor4 ,it was more      
beautiful than the jeweled swordhilt1   
breast plate or crown of the ,shah of   
,persia1 worn at his reception at       
,milan1 though they represented nearly  
half the wealth of his kingdom4  ,thus  
it is proved that in the era in which   
,joseph received the chain of gold from 
,pharaoh1 such chains1 of rare          
workmanship1 were already in vogue4     
,less than a century ago1 critics were  
hurling their shafts of contempt against
 the so-called blunders of ,moses2 but  
monumental history substantiates his    
credibility4 ,truly1 ,egypt is one of   
,god's historic books4 ,his handwriting 
is on temple and tablet and tomb4 ,here 
dead men speak1 and stones rise up to   
testify4 ,bricks of unburnt clay1 torn  
up from the ruins of centuries1 tell of 
,israel's bondage and labor4  ,of course
 we went to the bazaars and parks1      
cathedrals and mosques1 the missionary  
schools1 and the ,college of ,cairo--the
 principal ,university of the ,east4    

,and then to ,alexandria--to which the  
ancient city has1 indeed1 bequeathed    
nothing but its name4 ,though earth and 
sea have remained unchanged1 imagination
 can scarcely find a place for the      
ancient walls4 ,little vestige remains  
of the magnificent days of the          
,ptolomies and the ,caesars4            
,one-fourth of the population is        
foreign2 the city seethes with the scum 
of all the cities of the ,mediterranean4
 ,here luxury and literature1 the       
,epicurean and the ,christian1 dwelt    
together2 but now1 in the ,oriental     
part1 one finds only dirty1 narrow1     
tortuous streets1 mud-colored buildings 
with terraced roofs1 varied by fat      
mosques with lean minarets4  ,here once 
stood the renowned library of antiquity4
 ,here the ,hebrew ,scriptures expanded 
into ,greek under the hands of the      
,septuagint4 ,here ,cleopatra1          
',vainquer des vainquer du monde'       
reveled with the ,roman conqueror2 here 
,mark preached the truth upon which     

,origen attempted to refine2 here       
,athenasius held warlike controversy2   
here ,amer conquered1 and here          
,abercrombie fell4  ,in company with our
 intelligent dragoman1 we sailed from   
,alexandria on a ,russian steamship1    
and1 after a voyage of a day and a half1
 beheld the queer stone city of ,joppa1 
with its fort-like houses rising tier   
above tier on the hillside4  ,i cannot  
describe the enthusiasm we felt at the  
thought that we were at last to walk    
upon the soil hallowed by the feet of   
patriarchs1 prophets and apostles and to
 visit the scenes where they lived1     
labored1 and communed with ,god4 ,we    
walked through the winding1 slanting    
streets of ,joppa1 and called at the    
house of ,simon the tanner4  ,so well   
preserved were the vats of his tannery  
that one would hardly have been         
surprised to find the distinguished     
guest of ,simon walking on the housetop 
in the twilight4 ,but we must confess   
that we could not identify this house by

 the description given in the tenth     
chapter of ,acts4  ,leaving ,joppa early
 in the afternoon1 in a ,german         
spring-wagon1 and passing through the   
only gate on the land side1 we set our  
faces toward the ,holy ,city4 ,gardens  
and orchards1 groves of orange1 fig1 and
 pomegranate1 made the country          
delightful4 ,our road lay directly      
across the plain of ,sharon4  ,isaiah   
prophesied that ,sharon should be a     
wilderness1 and the black huts of the   
,bedouin tell the fulfillment of that   
prediction4 ,we look in vain for the    
beautiful flower to which ,solomon      
likened his beloved4 ,but although man  
is no longer regaled by its fragrance1  
the true ,rose of ,sharon still unfolds 
its charms to every believer1 whether he
 be a child of the plain1 or the        
mountain4  ,we passed by ,ludd1 and     
refreshed ourselves at the ,arimathea of
 ,joseph4 ,we approached the hillside   
village of ,kirjath-jearim1 with its    
terraces of olives and fig trees4       

,leaving the valley of ,ajalon1 the     
rough macadamized road led us up the    
rocky sides of ,judea's hills4 ,we      
traveled nearly all night2 and1 just as 
we reached the highest point in the     
road1 between the sea and the river1 the
 rising sun unveiled to us the minarets 
and domes and massive walls of          
,jerusalem4 ,i cannot tell you how      
inspiring1 how deep1 were the emotions  
that came crowding upon brain and heart4
  ,when we were about five miles from   
the city1 a young man1 mounted upon a   
beautiful ,arab steed1 brought us to a  
halt1 with a courteous wave of his hand1
 and1 in broken ,english1 presented us  
with the card of the ,mediterranean     
,hotel4 ,we learned that the proprietor 
was a convert of ,dr4 ,barclay1 and     
decided to make his house our home      
during our stay4 ,in a little while we  
entered the ,joppa gate amid cries of   
squalid beggars1 and1 a few yards from  
that entrance1 dismounted before our    
hotel4 ,it stands on ,mt4 ,zion1 in the 

shadow of the ,tower of ,david1 and here
 we received that cordial welcome       
accorded to those willing to pay #c a   
day4  ,standing on the heights of ,mt4  
,zion with your face to the east1 you   
have before you the ,tyropeon ,valley1  
now so full of debris as scarcely to    
appear as a valley4 ,looking a little to
 the north you behold ,mt4 ,moriah where
 now stand the ,dome of the ,rock and   
the ,mosque of ,el ,akra4 ,beyond these 
to the east1 is the deep ,valley of     
,jehosaphat with the brook ,kedron and  
the supposed ,garden of ,gethsemane1 and
 beyond rises the beautiful summit of   
the ,mount of ,olives4 ,northward is    
,akra1 and east of it ,bezetha1 two of  
the hills on which the city originally  
stood1 and a part of which it still     
covers4  ,we have lingered at ,bethesda1
 whence the angel has departed2 at      
,siloam's fountain2 at the ,wailing     
,place where the ,jews1 every ,friday   
afternoon1 lament in the language of    
their poets1 the misfortunes of their   

people2 at the ,dome of the ,rock with  
its marvelous ,moslem wonders2 at the   
,church of the ,holy ,sepulchre1 that   
centre of enslaving superstition1 whose 
annual triumphs cast a ray of hope adown
 the narrow halls of the ,vatican4      
,through a hole in the wall of the      
,chapel of ,angelo1 a torch is annually 
passed out1 supposedly lighted by fire  
from heaven4 ,the pilgrims wait in the  
darkness with wax tapers1 to be lighted 
from celestial fire4 ,the devotees bathe
 their hands in the flame1 to secure a  
special blessing2 and the extinguished  
tapers are carried to #bj1jjj distant   
homes1 to be as devoutly reverenced as  
the pilgrims who carry them4  ,there is 
nothing in the ,church of the ,holy     
,sepulchre that is not saddening to the 
heart of the enlightened4 ,through our  
visit to this building we had the honor 
of making the acquaintance of the       
,bishop of ,jerusalem1 and receiving    
from him diplomas testifying to our     
,oriental travel4 ,i fear ,i should     

forfeit mine could he know my unorthodox
 opinions of the 'sacred spots' of the  
,church4  ,illustration3 ,woman of      
,bethlehem  ,i loved to walk along the  
,via ,dolorosa1 to visit the home of    
,mary and ,martha4 ,i wept under the    
shade of ,gethsemane's gnarled olive    
trees2 ,i climbed to the summit of      
,olivet1 and listened to the ,french    
prattle of the ,countess de ,bouillon2  
,i took a donkey ride over the hills of 
,judea2 ,i lunched in the shadow of the 
rock where the man who went down from   
,jerusalem to ,jericho1 fell among      
thieves2 ,i tented in the valley of the 
,jordan with the ,stars and ,stripes and
 the ,crescent and the ,star waving     
above2 ,i stood on the whitened shores  
of the ,salt ,sea1 and gathered dead sea
 apples along the shady banks of the    
,sacred ,river2 ,i had a cooling draught
 from ,elisha's ,fountain at the foot of
 the ,mount of ,temptation2 and in the  
shadow of ,mount ,tabor1 ,i thought ,i  
heard the angel of death calling me to  

another ,canaan4 ,the flowered slopes of
 cedared ,lebanon1 the snowy top of     
,hermon1 the clear waters of ,abana1 the
 ivy of old ,damascus1 ,tyre and ,sidon1
 ,mt4 ,carmel and ,nazareth--in short1  
from ,dan to ,beersheba1 we saw all4    
,and for all the ,holy ,land1 the most  
accurate guide-book the traveler can    
have1 even to this day1 is the ,old     
,testament4 ,so perfect is the agreement
 of the land and the ,book1 that        
frequently when standing upon some      
elevated spot in ,palestine one could   
read the story of ,joshua1 ,judges and  
,samuel1 and follow accurately with the 
eye the movements from place to place1  
as readily as on a modern map4          
,illustration3 ,mrs4 ,carr in ,jerusalem
  ,illustration3 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr1 ,arab   
,gentleman's ,garb  ,since the first    
siege of ,jerusalem by ,joshua          
thirty-three centuries ago1 it has      
undergone twenty-six sieges1 and in     
almost one-third of these1 the city was 
utterly devastated4 ,the great explorer1

 ,captain ,warren1 has sunk shafts      
through the immense mass of debris      
accumulated at the wall penetrating     
stratum after stratum of debris of      
successive devastations4  ,descending   
eighty feet1 he found the road that used
 to lead from the gate1 in the time of  
,herod4 ,sixty feet farther down1 was   
discovered the road of the time of      
,solomon4 ,in the foundation-stones were
 found the marks of the quarries of     
,tyre4 ,they came upon the arches of the
 viaduct1 that1 in the days of ,solomon1
 connected the palace with the temple4  
,there is no discord between the voice  
of the ruins1 and the voice of          
inspiration4 ,these wonderful voices of 
the dead1 coming not alone from ,egypt  
and ,palestine1 but from the exhumed    
capitals of ,assyria and ,babylonia1    
awakened after a score and a quarter    
centuries of silence1 bear testimony in 
unmistakable tones that ',jehovah is    
,god1 ,jehovah is ,god alone4'          
,,chapter ,,xiv4  ,,work ,,in ,,kentucky

 ,,and ,,missouri4   ,the five years    
following the return to ,america were   
years of transition1 of experiment4     
,mrs4 ,carr was1 as always1 bent upon   
devoting her energies to educational    
work1 and ,mr4 ,carr was content to     
preach in whatever surroundings might be
 best adapted to her talents4           
,fortunate is he who discovers anywhere 
in the world1 a situation which calls   
for the exercise of all his highest     
faculties2 usually such a setting must  
be made1 fashioned from a part of that  
energy which1 might1 if not thus        
deflected from creative work1 have      
wrought the more4  ,it was so with ,mrs4
 ,carr4 ,endowed with gifts of high     
order1 gifts that the world always      
needs1 she had not1 as yet1 found the   
vantage ground for their full exercise2 
nor was she ever to find that highest   
development1 until she had fashioned    
from her own heart and brain1 the       
battle-ground of service4  ,as yet1 she 
did not know this1 but sought in various

 fields for a ready-prepared equipment1 
a sword sharpened1 and a breast plate   
polished by other hands1 with which she 
might fight for the truth4 ,returning   
from ,australia she naturally looked    
about in ,kentucky for the background of
 her ideals4 ,it was not to be found    
there1 and she came presently to        
,missouri2 first to ,fulton1 then to    
,columbia4  ,she entered into various   
school relationships1 but we find her   
restless in association with presidents 
whose ideas of school-government were   
different from her own4 ,we trust the   
following extracts from letters will    
prove of interest in themselves1 and at 
the same time tell the story of these   
years in the words of those who were    
chief actors4  ,may #bg1 #ahgd1 about   
eight months after the return from      
,australia1 ,a4 ,b4 ,jones writes to    
,mr4 ,carr from ,madison ,female        
,institute1 ,richmond1 ,kentucky3 ,if ,i
 should conclude to resign here1 would  
it be worth while to nominate you and   

,mrs4 ,carr for the position8--which    
shows that ,mrs4 ,carr is making no     
delay in seeking her sharpened sword and
 polished armor4  ,she is in fact1      
impatient in the search1 as witness this
 to her from ,mr4 ,carr1 ,may #bgth3 ,i 
am having big audiences at ,sycamore1   
,kentucky4 ,at the conclusion of the    
sermon1 last night1 eleven came forward4
 ,you must try to be reconciled with    
your lot until next fall4 ,this constant
 moving about from place to place1 is   
best for the present4 ,as to ,hocker    
,college1 they want you and ,i will hold
 myself liable to an engagement at      
,cincinnati1 for my wife's sake4 ,do not
 worry over the matter4 ,teaching must  
be attended to1 just as the institutions
 of baptism and the ,lord's supper4 ,i  
am sure you will be one of the happiest 
women in the world1 if you are settled  
at work2 and this shall be1 if we are   
spared to see next fall4  ,he writes    
again1 ,june #beth3 ,your letter came   
yesterday4 ,a man named ,carr1 opened it

 by mistake1 and when he saw that ribbon
 and those flowers1 he must have thought
 it from somebody's sweetheart1--and so 
it was6 ,brother ,crenshaw has a        
flourishing ,ladies' ,college at        
,hopkinsville4 ,these institutions have 
sprung up rapidly in ,kentucky4 ,here at
 ,princeton is another4 ,warrendale     
,college at ,georgetown is to be sold   
for debt4 ,from all ,i can see1 these   
,colleges do not promise much4 ,i am    
sure a certainty at ,hocker is          
preferable to an uncertainty elsewhere4 
,extract from the ,kentucky ,gazette1   
,lexington1 ,ky41 ,august #ah1 #ahgd3   
,on the second ,monday of ,september1   
,hocker ,college 7of which ,robt4       
,graham was ,president7 will begin its  
sixth annual session4 ,the immense      
outlay of more than #ajj1jjj has made   
the building perfectly adapted to its   
purposes4 ,to the faculty of the fall   
term has been added ,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr1
 a ,christian woman of untiring energy1 
and zeal in the education of women4 ,she

 is a graduate of ,st4 ,catherine de    
,sienna and ,daughters' ,college and    
holds a ,traveling ,diploma from the    
,bishop of ,jerusalem4 ,she purposes    
delivering a series of lectures1        
extending through the collegiate year1  
upon the wonders of many lands4 ,she is 
eminently qualified as an educator and  
disciplinarian for the position of      
,principal in ,hocker ,college4  ,m4 ,w4
 ,green1 writing from ,australia1 throws
 a confirmatory light on why the ,carrs 
were obliged to return to ,america3 ,you
 say you are so busy you find it        
difficult to get time to write4 ,it is  
to be hoped that in doing so much you   
will not again overtax yourself1 and    
bring on another time of weakness4 ,i am
 beginning to feel somewhat as you did1 
before you left ,melbourne4 ,nature is  
beginning to wear out1 and calls for a  
rest4 ,i cannot get that rest on land1  
for if ,i see an opportunity to preach1 
,i feel myself unfaithful if ,i do not  
avail myself of it4 ,sometimes ,i think 

,i will never get a rest unless ,i take 
a long sea-voyage4 ,it must be hard for 
you to have your study in ,lexington1   
and your books in ,hobart ,town4        
,brother ,earl writes me of his sorrow  
at hearing that protracted meetings are 
being introduced into ,australia4       
',they1' he says1 'often bring          
unconverted people into the church2 and 
they are discouraging to the regular    
preacher1 for the people get into the   
way of not uniting with the church1     
except at the exciting time of a        
protracted meeting4' ,we are pleased    
that ,sister ,carr has obtained so good 
a place for usefulness as the one at    
,hocker4 ,we had ,brother ,magarey over 
in ,melbourne to preach for us4 ,i was  
much pleased with him1 both as to piety 
and ability4 ,his style much resembles  
your own1 and ,i cannot tell his        
handwriting from yours4 7,this was the  
miller's son1 ,alex41 whose brother     
practiced medicine and religion1 as we  
have seen47  ,while ,mrs4 ,carr is      

teaching at ,hocker1 ,mr4 ,carr writes  
to her from ,vanceburg3 ,i cannot tell  
when ,i will be home2 this is the time  
for work4 ,i would be miserable hanging 
about ,hocker ,college1 doing nothing1  
and you hard at work4 ,i will hold two  
or three meetings before ,i return4     
,miller is blazing away at ,greenup2 he 
is giving me a drumming1 ,i hear2 but he
 can't hurt me4 ,i understand that      
,brother ,sweeny has agreed to debate   
with ,miller4 ,i can assist your young  
ladies on the ,argonautic ,expedition as
 well from here1 as if ,i were with     
them4 ,i advise them to write sensible  
essays1 and have their papers strictly  
original4 ,this advice is all ,i could  
offer them1 no matter where ,i am4 ,this
 is an odd place4 ,the farmers bring    
their produce to town every other day1  
which consists of a few bundles of      
hoop-poles for barrels1 and these they  
trade for something to eat4 ,they leave 
the city with a long slice of fat bacon 
under the arm1 and a little bag of      

flour1 enough to sustain their families 
for the next day4 ,then they come1 and  
go again4 ,i am amused at the merchants1
 who give their goods for poles1 tar and
 tanbark1 and then run cooper-shops in  
connection with their dry goods and     
bacon4 ,one of our sisters here is a    
milliner4 ,she says she doesn't take    
tanbark in trade for bonnets1 but she   
has ladies' hats for ten cents a piece1 
and carries on a lively trade4 ,don't   
you want me to bring you up here1 to do 
some shopping8  ,illustration3          
,standing3 ,matt 7,mrs4 ,w4 ,b4 ,smith71
 ,r4 ,a4 ,carr1 ,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr1 ,o4
 ,a4 ,carr1 ,mrs4 ,h4 ,p4 ,carr1 ,owen  
,carr4 ,sitting3 ,mary 7,mrs4 ,goddard71
 ,wm4 ,carr1 ,mrs4 ,wm4 ,carr1 ,capt4   
,h4 ,p4 ,carr1 ,minnie 7,mrs4 ,jno4 ,w4 
,fox1 ,sr47 ,,home ,,again--,,all ,,here
  ,we learn from the following that     
,mrs4 ,carr found one year at ,hocker   
,college 7now called ,hamilton ,college7
 enough to convince her that it did not 
afford the opportunities she sought2 the

 letter is to the ,trustees of the      
,midway ,orphan ,school1 and is written 
by ,robert ,graham1 ,may #aj1 #ahge3    
,having heard that there will be a      
vacancy in the principalship of your    
institution1 it gives me pleasure to say
 that ,sister ,carr has been associated 
with me in ,hocker ,college during the  
session now coming to a close1 and that 
she is a lady peculiarly fitted to have 
charge of girls in the classroom and in 
daily life4 ,she is a lady of           
refinement1 intellectual culture1 and   
energy4 ,i think her conscientiousness1 
experience1 and religious devotion1     
point her out as one raised of ,god to  
do a great work in the intellectual     
world1 and spiritual education of women4
  ,september #i1 #ahge1 ,mrs4 ,carr1 now
 at her old home town1 ,stanford1       
receives a letter from ,john ,augustus  
,williams3 ,if you had consulted me as a
 daughter should consult a father1 you  
would have saved yourself some trouble4 
,i received several letters from the    

,missouri ,orphan ,school recently2 they
 wrote for my advice regarding          
teachers1--but ,i thought you engaged at
 ,hocker ,college4 ,school must be in   
session now1 so it is too late4 ,but you
 and ,ollie1 having no children1 ought  
to be in charge of that school4 ,it is  
#aej pupils strong4 ,what to do this    
session8 ,well1 address yourself to     
study1 and prepare yourself to take     
charge of your sister-women in any      
branch4 ,daughters ,college is full4    
,over #ajj boarders have applied1 and we
 cannot take them4 ,you and ,ollie come 
to see me4 ,yes1 come home1 and let's   
have a talk6  ,mrs4 ,carr was never     
associated with the ,missouri ,orphan   
,school1 but she was convinced that     
,missouri offered her better            
opportunities than ,kentucky4           
,accordingly1 when in the fall of this  
same year1 ,mr4 ,carr was called to     
preach for the #agth and ,olive ,street 
,church1 at ,st4 ,louis1 it meant a     
final departure from the state of their 

birth1 so far as permanent work was     
concerned4  ,at the ,st4 ,louis ,church1
 ,mr4 ,carr was the successor of ,dr4   
,w4 ,h4 ,hopson1 and the predecessor of 
,t4 ,p4 ,haley4 ,it was an interesting  
and a critical time in the history of   
the ,st4 ,louis ,churches4 ,j4 ,h4      
,garrison of the ,central ,church was   
laboring night and day to keep the      
infant ,christian upon its feet4 ,the   
faithful members of both congregations  
stood loyally by the little weekly1 and 
took their turns in ministering to the  
mission churches1 such as that at #acth 
and ,webster4  ,of the ,church for which
 ,mr4 ,carr preached1 there were three  
elders1 who were interested in this     
missionary work3 ,john ,g4 ,allen1 the  
father-in-law of ,albert ,myles2 ,dr4   
,hiram ,christopher1 former teacher of  
,chemistry at ,bethany and author of    
,the ,remedial ,system as we have seen2 
and ,dr4 ,j4 ,w4 ,ellis1 who practiced  
law during the day1 taught in ,jones's  
,business ,college at night1 preached on

 ,sunday afternoons1 wrote ,jarvis      
,jeems articles for the ,christian      
between times1 and edited the ,st4      
,louis ,ladies ,magazine4  ,the matter  
of finding board for ,mr4 and ,mrs4     
,carr was a difficult one4 ,albert      
,myles and his family lived with ,j4 ,g4
 ,allen1 hence ,mrs4 ,allen did not feel
 that she could receive an additional   
family1 however congenial4 ,in the end  
the ,carrs went to her hospitable home1 
but for some time they lived with ,dr4  
and ,mrs4 ,j4 ,w4 ,ellis4  ,to this     
association of a month1 the present     
writer owes his personal knowledge of   
,mrs4 ,carr4 ,he had never seen her     
until the fall of #ahge1 he never saw   
her after the spring of #ahgf4 ,inasmuch
 as his sixth birthday fell within those
 extremes of time1 he cannot be expected
 to speak of ,mrs4 ,carr's mental and   
spiritual characteristics1 from his own 
observation4 ,he remembers her1 however1
 not as a mere name1 or as a vague      
shadow of the past1 but with clear-cut  

distinctness4 ,of all the women who     
flitted through his boyhood days never  
to reappear1 ,mrs4 ,carr's personality  
stands forth best defined4  ,perhaps it 
was because she had no children of her  
own1 that she was able to impress       
children1 from the interest she had in  
the children of other people1--her      
absorbing thoughtfulness for youth      
itself4 ,this was with her no transient 
pastime1 but belonged to that deeper    
part of her nature which started the    
stinging tear at little bits of         
childhood-verses4 ,her manner with      
children was not gay and buoyant1 but   
gentle and untiring4  ,the child felt   
that her interest did not spring from   
impulse1 to pass with the hour1 but that
 whenever he should be ready1 he would  
find her4 ,in that inherent dignity and 
seriousness of her natural character1   
kindliness for the young shone with a   
steady light which1 if it did not flash 
out in sudden radiant mirth1 remained   
unclouded from any other interest4      

,those who have proved restive under    
,mrs4 ,carr's unrelaxing discipline1    
those who may have opposed her in school
 management1 those whom she has faced   
from the public rostrum in state        
addresses with logical argumentation1   
may have found in her a fearlessness    
that seemed at times the indication of  
an imperious and unyielding disposition4
 ,doubtless those who opposed her were  
unable to understand the wounded heart  
behind the stern1 accusing eye4 ,but    
however brave and determined1 there was 
one thing she feared1--to wound the     
heart of a child4  ,during ,mr4 ,carr's 
ministry in ,st4 ,louis1 ,mrs4 ,carr    
devoted herself to study and travel4 ,a 
large composition book1 filled to the   
last page1 shows her indefatigable      
labors with the ,german language1 under 
the guidance of ,dr4 ,j4 ,w4 ,ellis4 ,in
 #ahgf1 she went to the ,centennial     
,exposition at ,philadelphia1 where we  
find her studying the exhibits with the 
same thoroughness she had shown in      

,london and ,cairo4 ,while she is on the
 wing1 ,mr4 ,carr writes to her from    
,sedalia in ,june3  ,i'm all right here1
 a little sick4 ,friday night ,i        
lectured at ,mexico4 ,brother ,hardin   
and ,i took the freight to ,moberly2 and
 then here1 in time for the meeting4    
,dr4 ,hopson is in the chair and there  
are twenty-nine preachers present4 ,i   
met ,brother ,longan last night1 and he 
laughed as we shook hands4 ,he and ,i   
will have a private dig4 ,what do       
,brothers ,wilkes and ,rogers think of  
his ',one ,word ,more' in the last      
,christian8 ,do they think ,longan is   
right on the ghost question8 ,this is a 
charming city4 ,the country around looks
 like the best part of ,fayette ,county 
7of course he is speaking of ,kentucky47
  ,the little ,i have seen1 is          
bewitching4 ,i am on for a speech       
tomorrow1 and have been too sick to     
prepare it1 and here ,i sit with my     
finger in my mouth6 ,i hope ,i'll do as 
well as ---- did last night1 and ,i     

think ,i will6 ,brother ,monser is my   
roommate1 and we did talk last night6 ,i
 think he likes my wife better than he  
does me4 ,well1 ,i let him4 ,he is a    
good man4 ,he spoke of the time ,brother
 ,mountjoy conducted you to the platform
 at ,mexico4  ,the following1 from      
,fulton1 ,missouri1 signed by three     
citizens1 shows that while at the       
,exposition1 ,mrs4 ,carr was making     
plans for future work3 ,in compliance   
with your request1 we report as         
follows1--,we have interviewed the      
members of the church in town1 and find 
them quite favorable towards patronizing
 a school of our own2 we think #cj or   
#dj may certainly be counted upon at the
 opening4 ,we cannot do anything until  
we first ascertain that we are going to 
have a school taught4 ,desks1 seats1    
etc41 can be easily secured when we find
 there is to be a necessity for them4   
,if preparations be commenced at once1  
we think a very good school can be      
founded here4  ,september #gth1 ,mrs4   

,carr wrote to ,mr4 ,carr from          
,washington1 ,d4,c43 ,i am writing in   
the celebrated ,washington ,post        
,office4 ,i have learned a great deal   
during my short stay in ,washington4 ,i 
have made a pilgrimage to the           
,american's ,mecca1--but ,i boiled my   
peas1--and have visited all the places  
of interest in the city4 ,i will reach  
,st4 ,louis to-morrow afternoon4 ,tell  
,sister ,childers ,i would rather have  
the room over the parlor1 for you know  
how wakeful ,i am4 ,the room over her   
room we can have for a study4 ,may the  
,lord abundantly bless my dear husband1 
and grant me the happiness of seeing him
 once more face to face4  ,on the same  
day1 ,mr4 ,carr wrote to ,mrs4 ,carr3   
,brother ,franklin preaches at ,fulton  
to-day1 so ,i have run down here to     
,louisiana1 ,missouri1 to try to get a  
pupil for you 7for the prospective      
school1 perhaps to be established at    
,fulton47 ,you say you will be in ,st4  
,louis soon--then in ,fulton1 ,i        

suppose1 about the #abth4 ,is it        
possible that ,i shall see my dear wife 
so soon8 ,i do long to see you and have 
your encouragement1 and enjoy your      
counsel1 your comfort and your love4    
,you say1 ',i have just called on ,h4   
,w4 ,longfellow4 ,what a grand old man  
he is6 ,his poetic soul flows through   
every word he utters4 ,i wonder if he   
ever did anything that was wrong8' ,i   
wish ,i could have accomplished more in 
our ,st4 ,louis work4 ,i believe our new
 field at ,fulton is promising4  ,mrs4  
,carr's fourth experiment in the        
educational world was at ,fulton1 where 
she established ,floral ,hill ,college  
for girls4 ,her note book shows that her
 rules of discipline were as wise and as
 rigid1 as if her attendance had been   
much larger4 ,the attendance was not    
indeed large1 but it was sufficient to  
place the institution upon a paying     
basis4  ,at this time the ,orphan       
,school was at ,camden ,point1 and      
,floral ,hill ,college had no rival in  

,fulton4 ,however1 at ,columbia1 not far
 away1 ,christian ,college proved a     
formidable check to any thought of      
future greatness4 ,christian ,college   
had long been established2 it was       
handsomely equipped1 and could make the 
appeal throughout the ,state1 that      
,floral ,hill ,college could not offer4 
,mrs4 ,carr found herself at the head of
 a college whose management depended    
solely upon her own wisdom2 but as an   
offset to this advantage1 she knew that 
her institution could never become a    
mighty force in ,missouri4              
,illustration3 ,i ,want to ,educate     
you--,absorbing ,thoughtfulness4  ,the  
spring of #ahgg saw the close of her    
first year's work1 and the following1   
written by ,mr4 ,carr1 in ,august1 shows
 that she intended to open school in the
 fall2 he writes from ,maysville1 for he
 is on a visit among the scenes of his  
youth3  ,mother and ,i went by ,mill    
,creek1 where ,brothers ,jno4 ,i4       
,rogers and ,i4 ,b4 ,grubbs are holding 

a meeting1 on to ,mt4 ,carmel4 ,thursday
 ,i dined with ,brothers ,grubbs1       
,rogers1 ,loos and ,myall at ,sister    
,mayhue's--she was one of my schoolmates
 at ,may's ,lick4 ,the meeting at ,mill 
,creek closed last night with several   
additions4 ,everybody asks why ,i didn't
 bring you4 ,kate would 'give anything  
to go to ,floral ,hill ,college'4       
,grandfather is nearly #hf years of age1
 and has been very ill of late4 ,i      
talked long with him1 as he lay there1  
and read #b ,cor4 #e1 and prayed with   
him4 ,he wept for joy and simply said   
',i am waiting for the ,lord's will to  
be done4' ,i am so glad to find father  
and mother able to go about4 ,they are  
still working for their children4 ,you  
must be encouraged about your school4   
,brothers ,grubbs and ,rogers praise you
 for your work4 ,but nobody praises you 
more 7,i mean prizes7 than ,i6#af  ,mrs4
 ,carr had not been teaching long on her
 second year1 when she received a       
request from ,mrs4 ,p4 ,f4 ,johnson1    

,president of the ,christian ,women's   
,board of ,missions1 to make an address 
at the ,st4 ,louis convention1 to be    
held ,october #ai1 #ahgg4 ,the subject  
given was1 ',children in ,mission       
,work4' ,the request was seconded by    
,mrs4 ,sarah ,wallace1 who made this    
interesting comment3  ,from the very    
beginning of our work as a ,society1 we 
have had to battle with the habit of    
'giving nothing' among our churches4    
,the people are not stingy1 but they do 
not realize the necessity of systematic 
giving4 ,when we wanted to add to the   
amount for ,brother ,darly's school 7the
 mission school in ,jamaica71 it was    
asked1 ,what can the children do8 ,our  
board advanced the amount1 then issued  
an appeal to the ,sunday-schools4 ,we   
wanted the children to have a work of   
their own4 ,brother ,darly's school     
proved more than a success1 passed the  
examination in six months1 and is now   
under the patronage of the ,government4 
,as a result of the appeals1 the        

,sunday-schools gave1 first quarter1    
#ab2 second quarter1 #bc2 third quarter1
 #cf2 fourth quarter1--not yet reported4
 ,it is now decided that a school be    
established at ,kingston4 ,it will call 
for about #bej4 ,the ,board desires to  
continue this as children's work4 ,mrs4 
,jameson feels confident of meeting you 
in ,st4 ,louis1 when she will tell you  
the whole story4 ,her illness is not    
violent1 but lingering1 as malignant    
fever usually is4  ,in the meantime1 ,o4
 ,a4 ,carr had been preaching for the   
,fulton ,church4 ,the following from    
,geo4 ,w4 ,longan of ,plattsburg1 ,mo41 
shows the activity of both1 and that    
private digs about ghosts had no place  
in public work for the ,cause3  ,march  
#f1 #ahgh3 ,of course1 ,i can't consent 
to take the burden on my shoulder6 ,it  
falls of right on yours1 and you can    
carry it as easily as any one4 ,the     
objects of the convention are to discuss
 themes of living interest1 and general 
utility as a sort of preachers' drill4  

,we aim to assign subjects according to 
the known tastes of the individuals     
chosen4 ,i suggest that no one be       
selected who was on the program last    
year4 ,of course1 the country around    
,fulton will furnish most of the        
speakers4 ,the subject1 ',phases of     
,current ,unbelief' would be both       
interesting and profitable in the hands 
of the right man4 ,i think ,j4 ,z4      
,taylor would write a good paper on     
that1 or ,a4 ,f4 ,smith1 or ,president  
,geo4 ,s4 ,bryant1 of ,columbia4        
,procter had nothing last year2 you     
might get him to preach at night4       
,experience proves that two papers with 
discussions following1 and a sermon at  
night1 is the best division of time4 ,i 
will try to compel my mind to think of  
other objects4 ,write to ,edgar for     
suggestions as to men4  7,we may state  
parenthetically1 that the reason the    
present writer never again met ,mrs4    
,carr1 though she often returned on     
visits to ,st4 ,louis1 is because ,dr4  

,ellis moved from the city1 first to    
take charge of ,woodland ,college at    
,independence1 later to assume the      
presidency of ,plattsburg ,college at   
,plattsburg1 ,mo41 where ,geo4 ,w4      
,longan was still preaching47  ,mrs4    
,carr had not finished her second year  
at ,floral ,hill ,college when a series 
of letters were exchanged between her   
and the ,president of ,christian        
,college at ,columbia1 ,geo4 ,s4        
,bryant4 ,these letters show a          
consciousness on her part that ,floral  
,hill ,college1 if continued1 was       
destined to remain overshadowed by      
larger institutions2 and a conviction on
 his part that ,christian ,college must 
inevitably suffer from the nearness of  
,floral ,hill4 ,president ,bryant seeks 
to absorb ,mrs4 ,carr's institution1 and
 to employ ,mrs4 ,carr as ,associate    
,principal1--the same relationship she  
had held toward ,robt4 ,graham at       
,hocker4 ,this correspondence is        
interesting1 and throws light upon ,mrs4

 ,carr's ability as a woman of business4
 ,not only does she gain the various    
points for which she contends1 such as  
the number of hours she is to teach1 the
 amount of salary she is to receive1    
etc41 but she is jealous of her official
 position1 and will have none of its    
privileges abridged4 ,president ,bryant 
is a man who loves his joke1 and is     
inclined to illuminate contested ground 
with the glow of good-fellowship2 but   
,mrs4 ,carr will have none of his humor 
until all her propositions are          
definitely accepted4 ,at last1 ,may #bc1
 #ahgh1 ,president ,bryant writes3  ,the
 propositions of yours of the           
#bast--eight in number--are the         
propositions of our agreement1 as ,i    
understand them4 ,so ,christian ,college
 and ,floral ,hill ,college are one6 ,i 
congratulate ,christian ,college upon   
the accomplishment of so desirable an   
end4 ,please allow me to say that your  
spirit of self-sacrifice has not gone   
unnoticed4 ,instead of assigning reasons

 to the ',fulton ,public1' would it not 
be better1--',to the ,public8'--,for    
,floral ,hill ,college was not an       
institution of ,fulton simply4 ,i will  
gladly publish in the catalogue a       
statement over your own name1 of the    
reasons4  ,this agreement was reached   
after months of negotiations4  ,floral  
,hill ,college was absorbed by          
,christian ,college1 accordingly2 but   
,mrs4 ,carr's personality was one that  
refused to be absorbed by any           
association1 or institution4 ,so        
definite were her ideas of the          
management of a school1 particularly in 
regard to its discipline1 that her      
position as associate principal could   
never have been satisfactory in any     
school4 ,mrs4 ,carr was a woman of      
intense conviction1 and when attempts   
were made to persuade her from her      
principles1 she felt that she was being 
persuaded to error4 ,those who are by   
nature fitted to lead1 find their inborn
 talent curbed1 when this leadership is 

clogged4 ,in any school1 there can be   
but one real head4 ,mrs4 ,carr would not
 look upon her position as associate    
principal as an honorary title2 nor     
could she feel that she was doing all   
she could for the education of girls1   
when her ideas of education1 which      
emphasized conduct1 clashed with those  
of others who insisted rather upon      
grades in recitation4 ,as at ,hocker in 
,lexington1 so now at ,christian        
,college in ,columbia1 she grew restive 
before the year had expired4  ,in the   
spring of #ahgi1 ,mr4 ,carr again went  
to ,kentucky to hold meetings1 and we   
find him lingering among the scenes of  
his boyhood1 and naturally thinking much
 of the past4  ,march #ag4 ,as ,i walked
 about the streets at ,mt4 ,carmel1 many
 familiar objects met my gaze4 ,there   
was the road along which you used to    
take your morning walks1 and the woods  
in which the birds sang for you their   
best early songs4 ,they put me to sleep 
in the parlor where you said to me1 ',i 

will go with you6'--that room in which  
,i first became acquainted with you1 and
 asked you to go on an excursion with me
 to ,a,esculapia4 ,i thought of the past
 and tried to sketch the future1 and    
prayed that you may be happily situated4
 ,i expect to have a happy meeting at   
,carmel1 for those old familiar faces   
inspire me4 ,if you were here1 ,i could 
preach much better4  ,march #bj1 ,stony 
,point4 ,this is my sister's home1      
midway between ,paris and ,winchester   
7the sister ,minnie1 now ,mrs4 ,john    
,fox1 ,sr41 whom we heard of in the     
,may's ,lick days74 ,i am sitting at the
 old desk where1 seventeen years ago1 ,i
 conned my ,greek grammar under the     
instruction of my brother-in-law ,jno4  
,w4 ,fox1 who is the head of this house1
 and the head of a school here1 of      
eighteen years' standing4 ,he has a     
family of ten children all of whom1     
except the infant1 have been taught by  
him4 ,one son1 ,johnnie1 passed the     
,harvard examination last spring1 and is

 now at ,lexington4 ,professor ,neville 
brags on him1 and says he knocks '#ie'  
every time in his ,greek class4 ,his    
half-brother ,jimmie1 is one of the     
public school principals of ,lexington1 
and is much respected there4 ,he has    
taken ,johnnie with him1 pays his board 
and tuition1 and assists him in his     
studies4 7,the reader will doubtless    
recognize in ,johnnie1 the author of    
,little ,shepherd of ,kingdom ,come1 and
 ,trail of the ,lonesome ,pine47        
,president ,graham was out here1 and    
stayed one night4 ,he enjoyed it6 ,he   
says1 in talking of us1 ',ollie and     
,mattie4' ,the children all fell in love
 with him1 and gave him cakes4 ,my      
father is able to walk1 and my mother's 
general health is good4 ,at ,lexington1 
,i saw many of your old friends3        
,grubbs1 ,cox1 etc4 ,doctor ,hopson and 
,brother ,graham say that you ought to  
take a good rest4 ,now do you hear8     
,that is from headquarters6 ,my visit at
 ,lexington was too short4 ,i fell in   

with some ,australian students who came 
near monopolizing my time4 ,one young   
man1 ,charlie ,thurgood1 used to work in
 a baker's shop all week1 and come to my
 house in ,melburne1 ,saturday nights1  
to learn grammar4 ,now he is in         
,lexington1 preparing to preach the     
,word4#ag ,the ,bible ,college has #de  
students1 ,college of ,arts #fe1        
,agricultural and ,mechanical #aje4     
,professor ,neville says it is the most 
pleasant session he ever had4 ,hamilton 
,college 7formerly ,hocker ,college7 has
 moderate success4 ,i gave them a ,bible
 reading at ,broadway ,church1          
,wednesday evening4 ,the audience was   
very good4 ,it was like old times4      
,when her first year's work ended at    
,christian ,college1 ,mrs4 ,carr1 though
 dissatisfied with the restraints upon  
her1 had not decided to relinquish her  
position as associate principal4        
,however1 she and ,president ,bryant    
were unable to agree upon terms1 and in 
,july she definitely terminated her     

engagement4 ,i would not insult         
,president ,bryant1 she wrote him1 by   
supposing for a moment that he expected 
,mrs4 ,carr to accept the propositions  
in his last letter4  ,she observes that 
she would have considered a             
re-engagement because of ,mr4 ,carr's   
earnest desire to assist ,l4 ,b4        
,wilkes1 then in poor health at         
,columbia1 and also because ,mrs4       
,carr's work in the ,college had been   
greatly appreciated by patrons4 ,but the
 curtailment of her privileges and      
authority1 is intolerable2 the matter of
 salary is of no moment1 in view of this
 obstacle2 nor will she hesitate to make
 the matter clear to all who seek       
enlightenment4 ,as she remarks1 ,i do   
not know exactly what you mean by       
burying the past4 ,in the course of the 
sad work1 you may cast a few clods over 
the remains of ,mrs4 ,carr's once       
prosperous school4 ,if by burying the   
past1 you mean1 stop all discussion of  
our differences1 ,i have only to say1 it

 is impossible to bury that which is not
 dead4 ,be assured1 ,i would not bury it
 alive if ,i could4 ,when ,i am asked   
why ,i do not remain at ,christian      
,college1 ,i am constrained to tell the 
whole truth1 though ,i would rather be  
silent4 ,let us hope that ,president    
,bryant's sense of humor enabled him to 
enjoy this keen sarcasm4  ,about this   
time1 ,dr4 ,s4 ,s4 ,laws1 ,president of 
the ,university of the ,state of        
,missouri1 situated at ,columbia1 became
 desirous of associating ,mrs4 ,carr    
with the ,university4 ,he had been      
deeply impressed not only by her        
scholarship and wide experience1 but by 
her reputation as a disciplinarian4 ,as 
she was now free from ,christian        
,college1 he expressed to her his hope  
that she would consider an offer4 ,such 
an association could not but be looked  
upon by her as a high promotion in her  
beloved calling4  ,september #a1 #ahgi1 
,dr4 ,laws wrote to ,mrs4 ,carr as      
follows3 ,i mentioned the case to our   

,local ,board1 and their favorable      
action ,i now send you4 ,your answer    
will1 of course1 be addressed to the    
,board1 but ,i'd be obliged for a note  
by bearer1 informing me of your         
acceptance--,i should say1 of your      
answer1 as ,i will then be able to leave
 on the evening train for ,st4 ,louis4  
,with this note1 the present chapter    
properly terminates2 it has been a      
chapter of changes1 of rapid            
transitions4 ,we have now reached a     
period of stability1 of advancement1 of 
growth1--the ten years of ,mrs4 ,carr's 
connection with the ,university of      
,missouri4   #af ,a letter from ,mrs4   
,carr to one of her pupils she taught in
 ,melbourne4 ,the letter was discovered 
recently with the little wild flower    
gathered on the plains of ,sharon pinned
 to it3 the letter had never been       
mailed3 written thirty-three years ago1 
it shows how ,mrs4 ,carr talked to her  
girls4 ,possibly she wondered why ,maria
 did not answer her letter1 and here is 

the letter found in a pigeon hole at the
 ,college4 ,mr4 ,carr sends it on to    
,maria with apology4  ,fulton1 ,mo41    
,u4,s4,a41 ,january #hth1 #ahgg  ,my    
,dear ,maria3  ,i received a letter from
 ,maggie a few days since in which she  
stated that you had written to me1 but  
receiving no answer1 feel discouraged to
 write again4 ,be assured your letter   
never reached me1 or it would have been 
answered4 ,i often think of my dear     
girls in ,australia1 and especially of  
you and ,maggie1 because ,i loved you   
best of all my pupils in ,melbourne2 for
 my association with you was longest and
 most intimate1 and because your mothers
 were friends that never failed me amid 
the little annoyances and trials that   
life is so surely heir to4 ,i cannot    
tell you how much ,i long to see you all
 once more4 ,i cannot imagine how you   
think for a moment that ,i forget you4  
,i wrote you from ,jerusalem4 ,i wrote  
to you from ,rome1 and ,i sent you a    
,french ,journal from ,paris4 ,i would  

love to visit you in your happy home    
that ,maggie so graphically described   
and to see that beautiful boy upon whom 
she lavished so many praises4 ,vaney a  
husband and father1 and my little ,maria
 a wife and mother6 ,well1 ,i am truly  
glad it is so1 and pray that your lives 
may be happy and useful4 ,after all1    
,maria1 the sweetest thing in life is   
the privilege of ,,being ,,useful--the  
privilege of ,,work4 ,what greater      
blessing1 beyond redemption1 can a woman
 ask than the privilege of serving her  
husband and her generation4 ,we are now 
stationed in a very pretty little city  
in ,missouri and our work is pleasant4  
,mr4 ,carr preaches for the ,church     
here1 and ,i have charge of ,floral     
,hill ,college4 ,my school is prospering
 and ,i am very happy in my work4 ,tell 
,miss ,ashley ,i wish she were here to  
work with me4 ,however1 we may have the 
happiness of working together in        
,australia4 ,every winter ,i pine for   
the hot winds--yes--,,the ,,hot         

,,winds--of ,australia4 ,my health has  
been poor during the winters ever since 
our return to ,america4 ,we may meet you
 all again4 ,how are ,brother and       
,sister ,magarey and family8 ,remember  
us very kindly to them all1 also to     
,brother and ,sister ,santo and family1 
especially to ,,ettie4 ,we had a short1 
but pleasant intercourse with ,alex4    
7,magarey7 during his visit to ,america4
 ,extend our congratulations to him and 
his bride1 and our best wishes for their
 happiness and usefulness4 ,alex4 had   
come to the ,united ,states to marry    
,miss ,campbell of ,bethany1            
,va44--niece of ,alex4 ,campbell--,o4   
,a4 ,c4  ,the snow is falling drearily  
and the snow birds are hopping about    
cheerily1 as though the snow was the    
greatest boon that ,god ever bestowed   
upon his creatures4 ,it is not ',the    
,rainy ,day1' but the spirit of         
,longfellow is about me4 ,by the way1   
during my tour ,east last summer1 ,i    
called upon the grand old poet1 and had 

a happy talk with him in his own        
historic drawing room4 ,as you doubtless
 know1 the ,longfellow ,mansion was at  
one time during the ,revolution the     
headquarters of ,general ,washington4   
,longfellow is one of the few glorious  
poetic spirits that have withstood the  
corrupting influence of the world's     
applause4 ,when ,i visited the          
,centennial ,exposition ,i availed      
myself of the privilege of visiting many
 places of historic interest in the     
,east4 ,this is the only tour that ,i   
ever made through the ,eastern ,states  
,,expressly for information1 and ,i need
 not tell you that ,i enjoyed it        
intensely and feel greatly benefited    
thereby4 ,when ,i see you1 you shall    
have all particulars4 ,now1 ,maria1 you 
must not fail to answer without delay4  
,what grief it gave ,mrs4 ,carr that she
 did not have a letter from             
,maria--because this letter was not     
posted6 ,write me a 'chatty' letter4    
,tell me how you like housekeeping1 if  

baby ever has the colic1 if ,vaney      
kisses him over a dozen times a day1    
etc41 etc4 ,give my love to your mother 
and tell her ,i would love to receive   
one more pledge of her friendship in the
 form of a letter for the sake of ',auld
 ,lang ,syne4' ,or if she is the busy   
housewife of yore1 she can press ,willie
 into service4 ,remember us very kindly 
to our friend1 the ,scotchman1 your     
father and ,mr4 ,jacques4  ,i enclose a 
little wild flower that ,i gathered in  
the ,plain of ,sharon4 ,i collected many
 curios in my travels and arranged them 
into a ,museum during ,christmas        
holidays4 ,the first day of ,january it 
was opened with nice entertainment to my
 young ladies1 and ,,christened ,,floral
 ,,hill ,,museum4 ,my girls acquitted   
themselves splendidly4  ,write soon and 
believe me1 affectionately yours1  ,i   
will write to ,maggie soon4 ,,mrs4      
,,carr4  #ag ,now1 #aiaj1 he and his    
good wife are in a most efficient       
ministry in ,pittsburg1 ,pa4 ,o4 ,a4 ,c4

     ,,chapter ,,xv4  ,,lady ,,principal
 ,,of ,,the ,,university ,,of           
,,missouri4   ,during the ten years of  
,mrs4 ,carr's connection with the       
,university of ,missouri1 we find her   
busy mind occupied by three entirely    
distinct sets of interests4  ,in the    
first place1 of course1 there was the   
,university work1 into which she threw  
herself with tireless energy and        
splendid success4 ,the position she     
occupied was ,professor of ,english1 and
 ,dean of the ,young ,ladies'           
,department1--a two-fold work1 which    
threw her into contact with both sexes  
in the classroom1 and called for the    
exercise of rapid judgment in the       
government of the young ladies4  ,as    
,lady ,principal1 she not only preserved
 order in the study1 looked after the   
health of its occupants1 shaped the     
literary exercises of the various       
organizations1 and gave as much energy  
to procuring new students as if she were
 conducting a private school2 but she   

strove to win the confidence of her     
girls1 that she might lead them to      
higher spiritual planes of life2 and we 
find her making the same religious      
impress upon the minds of the young men4
  ,we need but refer to two letters     
written to ,mrs4 ,carr in later years1  
leaving the reader to judge of the      
positive results of such a character as 
that of ,mrs4 ,carr2 results too        
significant and lasting1 to excuse a    
lack of appreciation1 or to palliate the
 breach of unkind criticism4 ,one is    
written by a distinguished citizen who  
states that he was on the eve of        
committing suicide1 when he came under  
,mrs4 ,carr's influence2 and that she1  
unconscious of his darkened mind1 saved 
him by the clear radiance of her daily  
life4 ,the other tells of a young man   
who entered the ,university with no     
ambitions and no purposes in life4  ,all
 that ,i am now1 he writes1 ,i owe to   
the time spent with you in the          
classroom4 ,he occupies a high          

government position4  ,in #ahhb1 ,mrs4  
,carr1 writing to ,hon4 ,j4 ,s4         
,rollins1 states what she regards as her
 most important duties at the           
,university3 ,the subject of my salary  
was thoroughly discussed last year by   
your ,executive ,committee1 and it was  
reported to me by ,eld4 ,j4 ,k4 ,rogers1
 that my salary of #a1ejj should remain 
unchanged4 ,the avenue to my highest    
success in my supervisory work 7which is
 indeed1 my chief work71 is my social   
intercourse with the young ladies under 
my charge2 and this can be best secured 
by having a home in which ,i am free to 
invite them at any time4 ,my classroom  
work1 as ,adjunct in the ,english       
,department1 and as teacher of          
calisthenics1 entitles me to #a1bjj1 and
 the classwork is the least important1  
and the least embarrassing1 of all4 ,my 
supervisory work demands the most       
constant and harassing thought and      
involves great responsibility4  ,the    
following from ,mrs4 ,carr1 to the      

,board of ,curators1 will show how      
thoroughly she threw herself into the   
interests of her young friends3 ,i      
hereby testify that the appropriation   
asked by the ,philalethian ,society1 is 
needed to complete the furnishing of    
their ,hall4 ,i need not tell you that  
the work for girls in our ,university is
 yet in its infancy1 and needs          
especially1 therefore1 your guardianship
 and helping hand4 ,i have encouraged   
the young ladies to appeal to you1      
through ,president ,laws4 ,if you       
hesitate to grant the petition on the   
grounds of financial pressure1 will you 
please allow #ach4fj of my salary to be 
deferred1 until after the next          
appropriation by our ,legislature8      
,mrs4 ,carr began to lay great stress   
upon the physical developments of her   
pupils1--a neglected branch of education
 in her own case4 ,her entire work at   
the ,university was destined to         
strengthen those powers of government1  
already highly developed1 for the future

 scene of her greatest usefulness2 and1 
in after years1 we find her views on    
physical culture1 carried out in        
concrete form4 ,in addressing the young 
ladies of the ,university1 she said3    
,if you will stand for one day at the   
corner of ,washington ,avenue and #dth  
,street1 ,st4 ,louis1 or ,broadway and  
,fulton1 ,new ,york1 and watch the      
passing multitude1 you will see scarcely
 one in ten who is erect1 or well-built4
 ,the large majority of ,americans are  
born of imperfectly developed parents4  
,after six years' association with the  
robust women of ,england and the        
,continent1 the physical degeneracy of  
,american women appeared more marked to 
me than ever before4 ,in ,london1 the   
broad feet of robust women make the     
flags resound in the early morning2 in  
,new ,york1 the tiny feet of pale-faced 
ladies trip along ,broadway at stated   
fashionable hours4 ,an ,englishwoman    
thinks nothing of walking from six to   
ten miles a day4 ,after climbing and    

descending the ,cheops of ,egypt1 ,i was
 unable for three days to ascend an easy
 flight of stairs4 ,an ,englishwoman who
 went up the ,cheops as ,i did1 rowed up
 the ,nile1 the following day1 to the   
,boolak ,museum1 enjoyed a donkey ride  
back to ,cairo1 returned to the hotel1  
and spent the evening in nursing my     
aches and pains4 ,physical tendencies1  
whether toward beauty or deformity1 like
 gentle dispositions and moral          
obliquities1 are inherited2 remember    
that you are the coming mothers of the  
nation4  ,it is not our intention to    
dwell upon ,mrs4 ,carr's daily life in  
,columbia4 ,any young lady desiring to  
attend the ,university1 is asked to     
correspond with her4 ,she delivers      
lectures in the ,university ,chapel2 she
 contributes to the ,missouri           
,university ,magazine2 she corresponds  
with ,miss ,a4 ,m4 ,longfellow1 daughter
 of the poet1 concerning their work--for
 ,miss ,longfellow holds at this time1  
practically the same position at        

,harvard1 that ,mrs4 ,carr does at      
,columbia2 she advises with             
,representatives concerning the passage 
of bills at ,jefferson ,city2 she is in 
frequent consultation with ,dr4 ,laws   
regarding the perplexing problems that  
are always arising in ,university life4 
,in presenting the portrait of ,dr4     
,laws to the young ladies of the        
,philalethian ,society1 in #ahhf1 she   
compares the ladies department with its 
status ten years before--the year before
 ,dr4 ,laws became president4 ,it was   
natural for her to attribute the secret 
of the great development to the doctor's
 labors4 ,whatever may have caused the  
wonderful growth1 there can be no doubt 
that much of it was due to ,mrs4 ,carr4 
,she says3 ,in the catalogue of #ahgf1  
all announcements concerning the young  
ladies are restricted to #cc lines4 ,it 
records #ci lady students1 only four of 
whom lived outside of ,boone ,county4   
,the catalogue of #ahhe records a       
special service for young ladies2       

generous provisions for their physical  
education2 a ,girls ,academic ,course1  
equivalent in honor to any other        
academic course of the ,university2 a   
neatly furnished and convenient study1  
on the first floor1 and another in our  
elegant library room2 a handsomely      
furnished society hall1 lighted by      
electricity2 and many other             
conveniences1 and luxuries4 ,we have #gc
 young ladies now attending the         
,university4 ,they represent #bh        
counties of ,missouri1 and four states4 
,in #ahge1 no girl took a degree4 ,in   
#ahhe1 four received academic degrees1  
four1 professional degrees1 and one read
 the ,mc,anally ,english ,prize ,essay4 
,on ,commencement1 #ahhf1 one read the  
,astronomical ,prize ,thesis1 and       
another delivered the valedictory of the
 ,normal graduates4  ,a large and       
interesting volume could be filled with 
the lectures of ,mrs4 ,carr4 ,for       
biographical purposes1 they need be     
simply referred to1 as an indication of 

one form of her activity4 ,the          
preparation of such discourses1 replete 
with classical and historical           
illustrations1 must have consumed many  
of these late hours snatched from the   
rightful claims of repose and           
relaxation4 ,one might suppose that this
 woman1 always frail1 always wakeful1   
liable at any time to fall the victim to
 headache1 would have found the         
,university work with its many-sided    
life1 much too great for her strength4  
,for her physical strength1 it was1 no  
doubt2 but that untiring mind found     
leisure1 after its thousand details1 to 
turn in another direction4 ,as we have  
said1 she had three separate sets of    
interests1 during the ten years at the  
,university4 ,we are now to consider the
 second--her connection with the women's
 missionary work of her church4  ,we    
have a threefold purpose in dealing with
 ,mrs4 ,carr's work for the ,christian  
,woman's ,board of ,missions4 ,in the   
first place1 it formed a large part in  

her life2 in the second1 the work in    
itself is interesting2 and in the third1
 it proves how erroneous were the       
circulated reports that ,mrs4 ,carr was 
opposed to organized missionary work4   
,concerning these reports we shall speak
 at another time4 ,at present our       
difficulty is to select from among the  
many appeals to ,mrs4 ,carr to speak at 
conventions2 from reports of her        
addresses2 from accounts of money sent  
in by her for the missionary            
magazine--the ,tidings2 and from the    
various conferences held by her with the
 members of the board1--lest our        
narrative be overburdened with a mass of
 similar instances4 ,it seems almost    
incredible that one so absorbed as she  
in the ,university work1 could have     
given not only her vacations1 but       
special days during the school year1 to 
the labor of organization1 and platform 
addresses1 appeals for money to the     
missionary cause1 and for subscribers to
 the ,tidings4  ,that strangers to the  

,christian ,woman's ,board of ,missions 
may understand just what it was1 and    
that its friends may know how much it   
had accomplished at this time1 we       
present a condensed account of the      
organization1 delivered by ,mrs4 ,carr  
at the ,annual ,convention1 at          
,carthage1 ,mo41 in #ahhe2 by this means
 we are not only enabled to introduce   
the subject1 but to give an adequate    
conception of ,mrs4 ,carr as a public   
speaker3  ,i want to talk to you        
directly about our mission work1 giving 
a historical sketch of the ,christian   
,woman's ,board of ,missions from its   
incipiency to the present time4  ,in    
,july1 #ahgd1 ,mrs4 ,cornelia ,neville  
,pearre suggested the desirability of   
effecting a missionary organization     
among the ladies of the ,christian      
,church4 ,the sisters were exhorted to  
consecrate monthly little sums of money 
from their allowances1 or salaries1 as  
individual means to the spread of the   
,gospel4 ,the idea at once became       

popular4 ,a little ,aid ,society in     
,indianapolis seized upon the thought1  
and discussed it4 ,at their meeting a   
stirring letter was read from ,mrs4     
,pearre setting forth the purposes and  
basis of the proposed society4 ,at the  
same meeting1 a brief article of        
incorporation was drawn up1 to which    
eight names were signed4 ,a president1  
secretary and treasurer were elected1   
and a meeting appointed4  ,the women    
composing the new society were          
inexperienced in the work4 ,not one of  
them had ever lifted her voice in a     
convention2 all of them were wholly     
unskilled in parliamentary address4     
,they were simply housekeepers1 wives   
and mothers2 but their hearts burned to 
do more for the ,master1 and they had   
the rare sense to know that organized   
effort is the surest and shortest road  
to success4 ,not long after1 ,brother   
,isaac ,errett espoused their cause1 and
 sounded forth the entreaty1 ',help     
these women6'  ,this led to a mass      

meeting of ,christian women1 held in    
,cincinnati at the same time as the     
,general ,convention of the ,christian  
church4 ,about seventy-five composed the
 meeting1 over which ,mrs4 ,pearre      
presided2 in a most earnest and         
prayerful manner1 she presented the     
purposes and plans2 and then and there1 
the ,christian ,woman's ,board of       
,missions assumed an organized form1 and
 entered quietly upon its humble yet    
glorious career4  ,indianapolis was made
 headquarters for the general officers4 
,five ,states were represented1 and a   
vice president1 a secretary and         
managers1 were elected for each4 ,after 
a full and free discussion it was       
resolved that ,jamaica should be the    
first object of their care4 ,the        
unanimous vote for the revival of the   
,jamaica ,mission1 which ,brother       
,beardsley had been forced1 in sorrow1  
to abandon1 and whose resumption had    
long been postponed1 brought delight to 
many hearts2 though some present had    

hoped that a field nearer home would be 
chosen4  ,the following ,december the   
,executive ,committee held its first    
meeting at ,indianapolis1 and determined
 to make an effort to establish         
,auxiliary ,societies in every ,state   
and ,territory of the ,union4 ,the      
following ,january #a1ejj was in the    
treasury1 and ,brother ,w4 ,h4 ,williams
 of ,platte ,city1 ,missouri1 sailed    
with his wife and child1 for ,jamaica4  
,the day after his arrival in ,kingston1
 though debilitated from the rough      
voyage1 he preached to about thirty1 in 
a dilapidated ,chapel4 ,his audiences   
increased4 ,he established prayer       
meetings1 ,sunday-schools1 teachers'    
meetings1 and carried the ,gospel from  
house to house4 ,through his            
instruction1 several native young men   
were soon prepared to render valuable   
assistance4 ,when1 in #ahgi1 ,brother   
,williams was forced to resign on       
account of his wife's ill-health1 he was
 succeeded by ,brother ,isaac           

,tomlinson1 under whom the work steadily
 advanced4  ,in #ahhb1 ,brother ,w4 ,k4 
,azbill was appointed4 ,through his     
association with the ,baptist ministers1
 he soon ascertained that the           
differences between their doctrine and  
his was merely nominal4 ,his proposal   
that the name ',christian' be           
substituted for ',baptist' was joyfully 
accepted by several of the oldest and   
most intelligent ministers1 who1 with   
their entire congregations1 planted     
themselves upon the ,bible1 and the     
,bible alone4 ,a building-fund was      
established looking toward the permanent
 establishment of the work in ,jamaica4 
,we are especially anxious to put our   
schools upon permanent basis1 for the   
educational work is1 after all1 the best
 and most lasting missionary work4 ,it  
is our earnest prayer that we may see1  
after a few more patient years1 the     
desire of our heart fulfilled1--the     
cause of ,jamaica1 the oldest born of   
our love1 self-supporting1 under the    

exclusive management of native talent4  
,brother and ,sister ,de,launey have1   
for several years1 been supported by the
 ,foreign ,christian ,missionary        
,society1 at ,paris1 ,france4 ,in the   
summer of #ahgi1 the ,christian ,woman's
 ,board of ,missions1 with hearts       
stirred by their success in ,jamaica1   
determined to contribute to the ,french 
mission4 ,at the ,bloomington convention
 they pledged #ejj to the salary of     
,sister ,de,launey's assistant4         
,immediately after this1 our beloved    
,brother ,timothy ,coop of ,england1    
without any knowledge of our purpose1   
presented us with ,l#ajj4 ,god put it   
into our hearts to promise #ejj1 and ,he
 put it into ,brother ,coop's heart to  
pay it1 so that the following year we   
were able to give #ejj more to the      
,french mission4  ,in #ahha we enlarged 
our mission by establishing a mission   
among the freedmen of the ,south4 ,at   
,jacksonville1 ,mississippi1 ,elder ,r4 
,faurot is carrying forward the         

evangelical and educational work1 among 
a large colored population4  ,in #ahhb  
the ,christian ,woman's ,board of       
,missions became a happy stockholder in 
the ,india ,mission4 ,the ,foreign      
,christian ,missionary ,society sent    
,brother ,albert ,norton and ,brother   
,g4 ,l4 ,wharton and their wives2 we    
sent ,miss ,mary ,greybiel1 ,miss ,ada  
,boyd1 ,miss ,laura ,kinsey and ,miss   
,mary ,kingsbury4 ,these offered        
themselves for that remote corner of the
 ,lord's vineyard1 without any          
stipulated salary4 ,there is a work     
there which only women can do4 ,in      
,oriental countries1 the home must first
 be captured for ,christ2 and in these  
homes1 men cannot give instruction to   
the hedged-in women4  ,missouri had the 
honor to suggest the next field to be   
occupied--the far ,west4 ,in ,june1     
#ahhc1 ,brother ,j4 ,z4 ,taylor assumed 
control of this department1 and in a    
short time ,brother ,m4 ,l4 ,streator   
was established at ,helena1 and ,brother

 ,galen ,hood at ,deer ,lodge4 ,these   
two congregations were at that time the 
only ones in ,montana4 ,the ,western    
field is immense1 and the sooner it is  
occupied1 the less the difficulty of    
occupation4  ,as ,i spent six years of  
my life #aj1jjj miles from home1 helping
 my husband in his labors for the       
,master1 ,i will not be thought         
sectional or narrow1 though ,i say that 
,i regard the ,western mission as our   
most important one4 ,indifferentism1    
skepticism1 ,mormonism1 and almost the  
whole catalogue of isms are growing rank
 in the busy1 rushing1 money-loving     
,western heart2 if the children of ,god 
do not eradicate these poisonous weeds1 
,american civilization must inevitably  
deteriorate1 for the character of a     
country's civilization depends upon the 
character of its people4  ,in the midst 
of infidelity at home and heathenism    
abroad1 the ,christian ,woman's ,board  
of ,missions is pushing forward1 in a   
quiet1 womanly way1 without the sound of

 trumpets1 or the gleam of arms1 its    
blessed work for the ,master4 ,we are   
doing something2 but a completer        
organization will help us to a completer
 work4 ,the best results can be         
accomplished only by a systematic plan1 
a comprehensive grasp and a disposition 
of forces3 ,we must organize ever new   
auxiliaries2 we must strengthen the     
weaklings1 revive the dying1 and1 by the
 power of the living ,christ1 bring the 
dead from their graves of idleness4 ,let
 us have more and better societies4 ,the
 gifted ,mrs4 ,browning says3           
',the world wails   ,for help1 beloved4 
,let us love so well1   ,our work shall 
be the better for our love4   ,and still
 our love be sweeter for our work4'     
,daily1 we pass into the likeness of    
that which we believe4 ,very soon1      
,faith hangs out a label1 and the whole 
woman becomes a confession of its truth4
 ,if you have faith in ,god to save     
souls1 you will certainly be transformed
 into the perfect likeness of the       

missionary woman4 ,you may have much to 
discourage you2 it may be better for    
you1 if you do4 ,those from whom you    
have the best right to expect sympathy1 
may be those who will misinterpret the  
truest purposes of your heart4 ,he who  
engages in any work worth the doing1    
must antagonize somebody4 ,but what of  
that8 ,is not woman the best            
burden-bearer8 ,can you not weep tears  
of bitterness1--yet press on1 in the    
midst of all discouragements1 to the    
beautiful likeness of the ,great        
,missionary1 who left the solemn        
injunction1 ',go ye into all the world1 
and preach the ,gospel to every         
creature8'  ,we scatter the seed4 ,but  
when we are old and feeble1 who will    
gather in the golden sheaves8 ,where are
 the future reapers and sowers8 ,they   
are in the ,children's ,bands4 ,in them 
you will find the sure prophecy of the  
future of the ,christian ,woman's ,board
 of ,missions4 ,whether that prophesy be
 radiant with promise1 depends upon how 

we are educating the girls of to-day1 to
 be the women of tomorrow4 ,some time1  
our brains will grow dull1 our hands    
helpless4 ,shall not the daughters      
receive the torch of truth from the     
hands of the mothers8  ,in conclusion1  
let it be felt as inevitable that we    
should often feel tired by the way2 that
 we should hunger for human sympathy2   
that our best efforts at times prove    
barren of results1 through the          
indifference of ,god's children2 that   
the purest purposes of our hearts be    
impugned by those we love best2 for a   
public work1 however unobtrusively      
performed1 and painful criticism1 cannot
 be divorced4 ,it is said that there is 
a grape which1 transplanted from its    
native soil1 loses its taste2 but       
possesses the flavor of the soil1 when  
grown upon the banks of the ,rhine4 ,it 
is only when our lives are planted in   
the aromatic soil of the love of        
humanity1 that our lives shall be       
identified by the richness of           

,christianity2 and no human hand1       
however unkindly strong1 shall be able  
to transplant our affections into an    
alien soil1 or take from our lives their
 flavor of piety and devotion4  ,having 
now placed before the reader the object 
and accomplishments of the ,christian   
,woman's ,board of ,missions1 in ,mrs4  
,carr's own words1 thus showing her     
attitude toward it1 we come to speak of 
the third great purpose that influenced 
her life during the ten years' work at  
the ,university4  ,it was none other    
than the same central idea of her life  
which we found developed in the         
,daughters ,college days of her         
girlhood4 ,she realized that in her     
present position at ,columbia1 she had  
reached the highest step in her         
educational career2 the highest1 because
 she was thrown into touch with the     
greatest number of young lives which it 
became her privilege to shape toward    
lofty aims4  ,indeed1 her entire history
 shows advance steps4 ,the tentative    

experiment of her first school at       
,lancaster was fortunately relinquished 
for her work among the girls of         
,australia1 with its broadening         
experiences4 ,having acquired that      
broader view of life that comes with the
 extended horizon of foreign lands1 it  
would have been unfortunate1 had she not
 returned to ,america to communicate the
 fruits of her observations4 ,hocker    
,college was1 accordingly1 an advance   
upon the ,melbourne work1 just as       
,floral ,hill1 where she was sole       
authority1 hence better able to carry   
out her original ideas1--was an advance 
upon ,hocker4 ,her keen foresight1 and  
unalterable determination to sacrifice  
personal feelings for the development of
 wider aims1 led her to merge ,floral   
,hill into ,christian ,college1 thus    
losing her identity in swelling the     
general good4 ,as we have seen1 the     
promotion from the ,christian ,college  
to the ,state ,university was one of    
far-reaching importance4  ,and yet1     

,mrs4 ,carr was not content4 ,she had   
not reached that ideal toward which she 
had directed her gaze when a mere girl2 
and1 in the elements of her nature1     
there were traits that refused to be    
satisfied by anything but the great     
object in view4 ,success did not for an 
hour swerve her aside from her          
fundamental purpose2 to establish a     
college for girls in which she might    
develop her original ideas of government
 and tuition4  ,hence1 all during the   
,columbia days1 we find her seeking a   
promising opening4 ,her eyes were turned
 toward many fields4 ,her caution and   
prudence prevented her from             
relinquishing a great responsibility for
 an uncertain experiment2 but her       
indefatigable mind1 while rejecting one 
expedient after another1 never wearied  
in the quest4 ,hence it is that during  
those years1 we find her absorbed not   
only in ,university work1 not only in   
missionary interests1 but always1 as    
well1 in the great object of her life4  

,it was particularly in the latter that 
her husband proved of invaluable        
assistance4 ,called to preach in many   
diverse scenes1 it was his pleasure1 and
 his care1 to look about for a suitable 
opening where a college for girls might 
be established2 a college whose         
foundation stone should be the ,word of 
,god1 and whose every day's instruction 
should be permeated with the love and   
power of its truth4     ,,chapter ,,xvi4
  ,,pursuing ,,one',s ,,ideal4   ,the   
letters presented in the present chapter
 are not only interesting in themselves1
 but are valuable as illustrating the   
threefold bent of ,mrs4 ,carr's mind1 as
 outlined in the preceding pages4 ,they 
cover her ,university experiences4 ,here
 is a manuscript revealing ,mrs4 ,carr's
 struggles with the ,greek language4    
,she has evidently just taken up this   
study2 her exercises show the same      
thoroughness she exhibited in her       
,german commonplace-book4  ,here is a   
receipt from the ,christian ,woman's    

,board of ,missions for #ej which ,mrs4 
,carr has sent on subscriptions to the  
,tidings4 ,and ,mrs4 ,s4 ,f4 ,d4 ,eastin
 writes from ,st4 ,joseph1 #ahhj1       
requesting ,mrs4 ,carr to read her essay
 before the ,moberly convention4 ,i know
 it will be worthy the attention of that
 erudite body1 says ,mrs4 ,eastin4      
,worthy any erudite body it should have 
been2 the subject is ,john ,stuart ,mill
 and ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4  ,mr4 ,carr to     
,mrs4 ,carr1 ,october #bc1 #ahhj1 from  
the ,louisville convention3 ,your letter
 was handed me in church just before    
,brother ,mc,garvey's excellent address4
 ,your words rang through my soul all   
the time he was preaching4 ,the devotion
 to the ,cause expressed in your letter 
is an echo of my heart1 and ,i second   
your motion to go to ,paris next summer1
 but ,i fear you will exhaust yourself  
in such abundant labors4 ,your spirit is
 too strong1 and too active1 for your   
body4 ,i gave ,sister ,eastin your      
message and she says it is the very     

thing4 ,this has been a glorious        
convention1 most orderly and deeply     
pious4 ,i delivered to the convention   
the messages of ,brother and ,sister    
,rogers and ,brother and ,sister        
,wilkes4 ,to-day the convention closed  
in tears and in high hopes1 for the     
future4 ,brother ,magarey 7our ,alex4 of
 ,melbourne association7 went to        
,bethany yesterday4 ,he looks a little  
older1 but is the same blessed man4 ,i  
love him4 ,we had long talks4 ,brother  
,gore will visit home before long4 ,all 
well at ,brother ,santo's4 ,i got this  
sheet of paper from ,jimmie ,fox's desk4
 ,he is doing well--,adjunct ,professor 
in the ,male ,high ,school4 ,i am       
writing at the office of the ,old ,path 
,guide4 ,brothers ,hardin1 ,allen1      
,cline1 et al41 are talking all around  
me4 ,hardin goes to ,st4 ,louis tonight2
 ,i send this by him1 that you may get  
it soon4 ,collis and ,thurgood asked of 
you especially4 ,i told ,brother        
,mc,garvey of your work1 of ,brother    

,wilkes' estimation of you1 of your     
position in the ,university1 of the high
 praise ,president ,laws gives you1     
etc41 and ,brother ,mc,garvey says he   
wishes you could have a work directly in
 the interests of ,christianity2 but all
 he can advise is1 to stay in the       
,university until such a position opens 
up4  ,w4 ,w4 ,dowling to ,mr4 and ,mrs4 
,carr3 ,i am publishing in the ,sunday  
,school ,teacher1 biographical sketches 
of some of our prominent ,sunday-school 
workers4 ,i want a sketch of both of    
you--a synopsis of your lives and       
labors4  ,j4 ,w4 ,mc,garvey to ,mr4     
,carr1 ,june #cj1 #ahhc3 ,i am glad you 
have the heart and ability to care for  
your aged parents as you do4 ,in regard 
to educational affairs1 ,i doubt the    
possibility of legally removing the     
,canton ,institution4 ,if you need an   
institution for the education of        
preachers1 you cannot do better than to 
build a house1 and endow two chairs in  
connection with the ,university4 ,but ,i

 do not see that you need it for many   
years to come4 ,our ,college at         
,lexington can receive all your young   
men1 and do a better part by them1 at   
less expense4 ,an attempt to have a     
,bible ,college in every ,state where we
 have a strong membership1 will result  
in a large number of weaklings4 ,the    
,baptists in all the ,south aim at but  
one2 the ,presbyterians1 the same4 ,we  
are now aiming at six or seven1 and     
ours1 the largest1 has only #id4 ,since 
,geo4 ,bryant has gone home1 ,i hear    
they are expecting #bej guests at       
,independence4 ,i am surprised so many  
are expected4 ,i have not heard whether 
,brother ,oldham made a good reputation 
at first1 or not4 ,i am sure1 however1  
that he will establish a reputation and 
secure success4 ,i hope the preachers   
will help him4 7,oldham was ,bryant's   
successor at ,christian ,college1       
,columbia4 ,the institution referred to1
 at ,independence1 was ,woodland        
,college47  ,november #d1 #ahhc1 ,o4 ,a4

 ,carr issued a circular addressed to   
the ,alumnae of ,christian ,college1    
urging them to send matter for the      
forthcoming book1 ,biography of         
,president ,j4 ,k4 ,rogers1 and ,history
 of ,christian ,college4 ,this was a    
book ,mr4 ,carr had undertaken at the   
request of ,president ,rogers's widow4  
,the work was attended with much        
difficulty and many delays1 on account  
of the alumnae pursuing the usual course
 of alumnae1 by refusing1 as a whole1 to
 answer request or entreaty4  ,mrs4 ,s4 
,e4 ,shortridge1 from ,indianapolis1 to 
,mrs4 ,carr1 ,february #bj3 ,i have been
 working all day steadily on the        
,tidings1 and tonight1 being too nervous
 to sleep1 ,i take advantage of this    
halt to write to you1 though the        
midnight hour is not far away4 7,mrs4   
,shortridge was the ,cor4 ,sec4 of the  
,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m47 ,accept my thanks for  
the kindness and patience with which you
 have gone over the whole ground4 ,i    
quite agree with you in the main2 the   

only difference between us is1 ,i       
believe1 in the exceptions to the rule4 
,i must assure you that we are of one   
mind here at ,indianapolis4 ,perfect    
harmony and confidence prevail4 ,this is
 particularly true of ,sister ,jameson  
and myself4 7,mrs4 ,jameson was the     
president of the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m47  ,from
 her ,i have no secret4 ,we are very    
near neighbors2 ,i see her almost daily2
 yet ,i am continually finding new      
beauties of character to love and       
admire4 ,i find the ,tidings cannot be  
enlarged this year3 ,i wish it could4   
7,at this time the ,tidings was a small 
four-page sheet1 four columns to the    
page47 ,we are not able to rent a room1 
or office1 and we work at great         
disadvantage4 ,i never look at the paper
 that my conscience does not stir       
uneasily1 it reminds me so much of a    
motherless child4 ,and yet--,i am doing 
the best ,i can4 ,i have no journalistic
 genius1 ,mrs4 ,goodwin always insisted 
that ,i had1 but she was blinded by     

love4 ,if ,i have talent1 it is still   
dormant4 ,i do believe in you1 and trust
 you fully1 my dear ,sister ,carr4 ,i   
think of you as a lovely ,christian     
woman1 incapable of consciously doing an
 unjust thing4  ,l4 ,b4 ,wilkes1 from   
,stockton1 ,cal41 to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i am 
better--nearly well4 ,still1 if you were
 here to rub my head1 ,i believe it     
would hurt me pretty often yet4 ,you are
 in earnest--you would like to come to  
,california--and will1 if ,i can find a 
place for you and the doctor 7meaning   
,mr4 ,carr1 of course47 ,the school     
business is overdone among our folks4   
,we have three colleges1 all mixed      
schools1 and pretty badly mixed4 ,just  
come to our house and stay till you find
 a place1 let that be long or short4 ,i 
don't know how to write a letter1 so    
leave the gossipy part to my wife1 she  
is good at it4 ,i will start the doctor 
a paper in which ,i have a small piece  
on the organ4 7,for in those days one   
could write about the organ1 when all   

other subjects failed47  ,to which      
letter1 ,mrs4 ,wilkes adds a            
postscript--,he says ,i am good at      
gossip2 ,i deny the charge4 ,he would   
have you both come on here2 but selfish 
as ,i am1 ,i cannot insist on your      
coming1 for fear you might not like the 
place4  ,in #ahhd ,o4 ,a4 ,carr was     
appointed ,state ,evangelist for        
,missouri1 and the following notes are  
taken from his letters to ,mrs4 ,carr4  
,the names of places are generally      
omitted3  ,march #c4 ,we are poorly     
represented here4 ,the people don't seem
 to believe the ,bible4 ,a woman1       
though1 has been taking the rag off the 
bush4 ,it is said she can out preach a  
man--goodness6 my wife could beat       
nine-tenths of the preachers1 but ,i'm  
glad she's a woman who wouldn't preach  
publicly before a promiscuous audience4 
,there is a gloomy prospect here4       
,ignorance--you never saw the like4 ,at 
,trenton ,i tried to raise money to seat
 the meeting house at ----1 but they    

said1 ',that is in the midst of a good  
agricultural district--why don't they   
build their own church8' ,they don't    
know that infidelity stalks abroad in   
daylight there1 and that infidelity does
 not build meeting houses or anything   
else that is good4 ,i have been talking 
to an old brother with his wife--mine   
host--on missionary work1 trying to show
 that ,i am in as legitimate a business 
as the editor of the ,review when he    
publishes a paper4 ,the woman yielded at
 last--said at least there is no harm in
 it4 ,good6 ,my desire is to meet some  
more of such people1 and convert them4  
,i believe ,i can do it6 ,i will have a 
heft at it here1 ,i think4 ,some good   
old men have tried to preach and farm1  
and have not done either very well1 ,i  
presume4 ,it will be difficult to       
persuade these people to give #bjj for  
once-a-month preaching1 when they have  
been giving about five dollars4 ,i have 
not done a thing on the ,biography of   
,president ,rogers1 nor do ,i see how ,i

 can at this rate4 ,i have a bad cold4  
,the door is warped and won't close1 and
 last night the wind whipped around into
 the bed1 and everywhere4 ,i've got the 
stove between me and that crack in the  
door now1 and some of the atmosphere    
will have to get warmed1 before it      
reaches me4 ,brother ,a4 ,b4 ,jones says
 ,i'd better stay at ---- and work it   
up2 but there's nothing to work up1 and 
the only chance ,i see is to get that   
place joined on to the congregation     
here4  ,march #f4 ,i've tried to        
introduce the envelope system of        
contribution in the church here         
7,gallatin7 and have run myself down    
today2 from house to house4 ,i am in a  
cold room1 writing after speaking       
tonight at the ,christian convention4 ,i
 enclose #be for you to forward to      
father1 ,wm4 ,carr1 ,maysville1 ,ky4    
,brother ,s4 ,p4 ,richardson says1      
',give my love to ,mrs4 ,carr4' ,he says
 he was in your class at the            
,university1 and thinks a great deal of 

you4 ,he says he had a good time in your
 class4 ,he was a law student4 ,will    
,sister ,rogers be satisfied with delay 
of the ,biography till fall8 ,how ,i do 
wish ,i had the material for a complete 
biography4 ,i don't like to blame       
anybody1 but ,i have tried faithfully to
 collect it4 ,i do not like to think of 
anything incomplete in connection with  
that grand1 good man4  ,march #i4 ,thank
 you for that nice letter2 there was    
great encouragement in it4 ,a vision of 
you comes before me--it is a charming   
picture4 ,you say you are anxious that  
,i should succeed4 ,but in my case1 what
 is success8 ,if adding members to the  
churches is a success1 ,i have failed   
already4 ,i have been setting churches  
in order1 and teaching the brethren4    
,here at ,gallatin1 we meet in a hall4  
,there is no house1 and the members are 
poor4 ,from ,trenton ,i go to           
,breckenridge1 or ,grant ,city4 ,brother
 ,floyd of the ,christian ,herald1 of   
,oregon asks me for a ,missouri         

sub-editor4 ,i have recommended you to  
him4 ,i have written my notes for the   
,christian ,standard and                
,christian-,evangelist4 ,i will watch   
for your article and see if it sounds   
like ,i wrote it4 ,that was a big joke6 
,did ,i know what you could say about   
,john ,stuart ,mill and the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 
,m48 ,i don't suppose ,mill ever heard  
of such a thing as the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m41 
and ,i don't know how you thought of    
both names at once4 ,i wish you would   
write a dozen articles for our church   
papers--divide them around4 ,write on   
,women's ,work1 for the ,quarterly4     
,april #ae4 ,i rode twelve miles        
horseback for your letter1 which        
heightened the joy of receiving it4 ,i  
am utterly discouraged about that       
,biography of ,brother ,rogers4 ,i      
cannot find time and quiet to write4    
,for instance1 ,i walked nearly two     
miles to church1 then two more to reach 
a place to stay all night--where ,i had 
to sit up1 and be sociable till ,i was  

worn out4 ,the people are generous here1
 and ,i think1 religious4 ,the church is
 ajar1 and ,i am expected to set it in  
order4 ,it is rather discouraging for me
 to have to do the hard work1 then leave
 to set another church in order1 while  
some one else follows me up1 and holds  
the meetings and gets the additions4 ,i 
am here1 trying to get the members to   
act decently toward one another4 ,it    
will take a week to warm them up1 and   
then ,i will have to leave4  ,april #ai4
 ,it rained so much last night1 ,i could
 not get to meeting1 and ,i am compelled
 to stay in doors4 ,mine host is a good 
man4 ,he and wife and six children are  
all crowded together in two rooms1 and  
we have confusion worse confounded4 ,i  
have to cross a swampy valley to and    
from church 7distance two miles7 and a  
muddy1 snaky river that is to be        
despised4 ,our toilette arrangements    
consists of a washpan outside the house4
 ,it will take a week to get the        
,christians to be friends with each     

other4 ,i heat up in church and cool off
 walking home1 and cough at night4      
,between coughs1 ,i think of you1       
wondering if you are wearing yourself   
out with toil and anxiety4 ,learn to    
take life more leisurely6 ,my idea is   
for you to become author--write a book  
or two1 if you please1 and contribute to
 the journals4 ,our papers need your    
talent4 ,please forward the enclosed #be
 to mother4  ,from ,j4 ,w4 ,mc,garvey1  
,lexington1 ,kentucky1 to ,mrs4 ,carr1  
,april #bi1 '#hd3 ,brother ,patterson is
 to continue at ,hamilton ,college at   
least one more year4 ,he is making money
 out of the school at a very handsome   
rate2 but the fact that he is building a
 fine dwelling on the place he bought   
from ,brother ,lard's estate1 indicates 
that he will not remain much longer than
 a year4 ,when the time comes1 you may  
rest assured that ,i will present your  
claims and merits before the ,board1 in 
all their attractiveness4 ,i have no    
doubt you could make a success of it4 ,i

 am sorry ,i cannot accept ,brother ,j4 
,a4 ,lord's invitation to lecture on    
',bible ,colleges' at ,columbia4  ,the  
following of ,july #aeth1 shows ,mrs4   
,carr working in a fresh field--the     
,women's ,christian ,temperance ,union3 
,as ,corresponding ,secretary of the    
,columbia ,union1 ,i send you the       
following resolutions1 which were       
unanimously adopted at the last session 
of the ,union3 99 99 99 ,be it resolved 
that we as an individual ,union protest 
against the resolution passed at the    
,sedalia ,convention1 namely1 ',that the
 ,white ,ribbon hosts of ,missouri work 
for woman suffrage4' ,the woman suffrage
 attachment will necessarily complicate 
the nature of our plea4 ,an organization
 already exists entitled1 ',the ,woman  
,suffrage ,association'1 whose exclusive
 purpose is woman's suffrage4 ,many of  
our friends1 and many in our own ranks1 
oppose the plea of woman's suffrage1 as 
a part of our plea for temperance4      
,mrs4 ,carr writes to ,mr4 ,carr        

concerning a church quarrel which he is 
striving to quell--judging from her     
letter his efforts at warming up the    
members has taken an unfortunate        
direction4 ,the letter is interesting as
 showing ,mrs4 ,carr's wisdom in such   
delicate affairs3 ,i cannot tell you how
 deeply ,i deplore this church          
difficulty4 ,deal with the matter very  
gently4 ,don't write sharply to any one1
 for if you do1 you will be             
misrepresenting yourself1 and injure the
 work4 ,let the matter readjust itself4 
,i advise you to so arrange your work as
 not to be present at the county        
meeting4 ,your presence at this juncture
 might do harm to you and to the ,cause4
 ,stay away1 and write them a good1     
fatherly letter1 to be read before the  
convention4 ,i'm sure1 intuitively1 that
 this will be best4 ,your success is the
 burden of my prayers4 ,after a few more
 years ,i hope we shall be more         
together2 we shall see each other every 
day4  ,robt4 ,graham to ,mrs4 ,carr1    

from ,lexington1 ,july #i3 ,your letter 
was duly received1 and ,i immediately   
set to work to see what could be done to
 get you into the ,midway ,orphan       
,school4 ,i handed your letter to       
,brother ,mc,garvey1 and he agreed with 
me that there is little likelihood of   
the trustees placing the management     
under the control of a lady4 ,i         
consulted members of the executive      
committee1 and find they are resolved   
upon a man4 ,it is very difficult to    
find the right one4 ,keith of           
,california refused at once2            
,bartholomew of ,louisville has a better
 position1 etc4 ,it is suggested that   
you buy the now vacant school at ,north 
,middleton1 ,bourbon ,county1 and while 
,i could not advise you to such a step1 
,i mention it1 that you may know of that
 opening4 ,i see that ,corinth ,academy 
is for sale1 but ,i don't suppose you   
would want to put your means there4     
,brother ,patterson holds on for another
 year at ,hamilton ,college4 ,i can     

easily understand why you seek to be    
engaged in a school where you could work
 for the ,cause we love2 were it in my  
power1 ,i would soon have you in a      
position more congenial to your tastes4 
,as it is1 you must be content to labor 
and to wait1 till ,god opens up the way4
 ,i write this1 knowing you have a      
position of great honor and emolument1  
one that many would gladly obtain2 but  
,i know your desire1 and sympathize with
 it4  ,more notes from ,mr4 ,carr1 as   
,state ,evangelist1 to ,mrs4            
,carr--,july #ah3 ,letters forwarded4   
,you don't miss me any more than ,i do  
you4 ,i am going to hold some meetings  
during pleasant weather4 ,i have very   
few additions to report4 ,i have spent  
most of my time trying to set up        
torn-down churches4 ,as to ,vice        
,president of the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m41 ,i   
don't object for that honor to be thrust
 upon my wife4 ,i think it very         
complimentary2 get up the program1 and  
preside at ,kansas ,city4 ,how about    

that ,biography8 ,if you could work on  
that1 we would get it out4 ,you ought to
 write much for the ,brotherhood4 ,women
 can do that work1 and not trespass on  
,i ,cor4 #ad3cd-ce4 ,drive out to church
 and hear ,brother ,powell1 ,sunday4    
,don't forget to fix up the genealogy of
 the ,rogers family4 ,don't try to drive
 that horse by yourself4 ,while you are 
resting1 select the essays to be added  
to the second part of the ,biography4   
,don't work hard1 just lounge around1   
for this is your vacation1 you know4    
,august #f4 ,while at ,savannah ,i      
received some letters forwarded by you  
to ',sullivan4' ,how they came to       
,savannah1 marked thus1 ,i don't know1  
,i suppose there is no such postoffice  
as ,sullivan1 and they might as well    
come here as anywhere4 ,halt6--,i had to
 go out to preach my ten o'clock sermon4
 ,i am preaching day and night4 ,it's a 
hard row to hoe4 ,the church is in a    
deplorable condition1 and of course     
nobody will 'join4' ,but ,i am expected 

to stay up here1 and keep digging4      
,brother ,j4 ,h4 ,duncan asked me to    
help make out the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4       
program for the ,state meeting4 ,isn't  
he impudent8 ,i told him you are        
president1 and will manage it2 but ,i   
helped him on the male part4  ,november 
#bg4 ,this is ,thanksgiving ,day1 and ,i
 am to eat at a hall--a dinner by the   
,methodists4 ,i'm a good hand to eat for
 the benefit of a church4 ,i hear       
they're going to have ice cream4 ,well1 
,i can't help it4 ,i must go4 ,you will 
have to be thankful without me2 ,i'll be
 as thankful as ,i can4 ,we are to have 
a ,thanksgiving sermon by a ,north      
,methodist preacher1 and coming so soon 
after ,cleveland's election1 it is      
anticipated he will give us a gloomy    
kind of thanks4 ,he will doubtless feel 
somewhat as ,dr4 ,pinkerton did1 when he
 told his wife he had nothing to be     
thankful for because there was no       
butter4 ,our meeting drags4 ,i had to   
get this part of the county fixed up and

 friendly4 ,there is a good prospect    
now4 ,received account from ,brother ,d4
 ,o4 ,smart4 ,sorry ,i could not be with
 you and the young ladies and gentlemen 
at ',narrow ,gauge' today4  ,from the   
,missionary ,tidings1 ,september1 #ahhd3
 ,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr of ,columbia has   
been appointed vice-president of the ,c4
 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 of ,missouri1 to succeed   
,mrs4 ,j4 ,w4 ,morris1 who was compelled
 to resign on account of ill health4    
,the reader is referred to past files of
 the ,tidings for a full account of     
,mrs4 ,carr's labors as organizer1      
platform manager1 speaker1 and her      
committee work in the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4   
,she was vice president in #ahhd1 #ahhe1
 #ahhf1 after which she became a ,state 
manager4 ,during her first              
vice-presidency1 the managers were      
,mmes4 ,hedges1 ,a4 ,b4 ,jones1 ,j4 ,h4 
,garrison1 ,j4 ,w4 ,monser1 ,dr4        
,petitt1 ,t4 ,e4 ,baskett1 ,t4 ,d4      
,strong1 ,e4 ,c4 ,browning1 ,kirk       
,baxter1 ,wm4 ,pruitt2 during each of   

her terms1 the secretary was ,miss ,m4  
,lou ,payne4 ,in #ahhg she was succeeded
 by ,mrs4 ,j4 ,k4 ,rogers4  ,on the     
#bjth of ,march1 #ahhe1 the ,st4 ,louis 
publisher1 ,john ,burns1 writes to ,o4  
,a4 ,carr3 ,last ,friday ,i went to     
,columbia and had a pleasant interview  
with ,sister ,rogers about publishing   
her book4 ,we agreed that the matter    
should be delayed no longer4 ,the ,,ms4 
should be in my hands with the least    
possible delay4 ,it should be in type by
 the first of ,may1 and the books ready 
by ,june #ast4 ,as you are so constantly
 engaged away from home as our ,state   
,evangelist1 it is thought best for     
,brother ,mountjoy to read the proof4   
,as to compensation for labors1 ,sister 
,rogers stated that she is anxious for  
you to be satisfied4 ,i have agreed to  
bring out the work in first-class style4
 ,there is to be a steel engraving of   
,brother ,rogers1 and a wood cut of     
,christian ,college4 ,the work will be  
in two bindings1 one to be full ,turkey 

,morocco1 gilt4 ,the ,john ,burns       
,publishing ,company will have entire   
control of the work1 and have agreed to 
push the sale to the best of their      
ability4 ,i expected to meet ,mrs4      
,carr1 to discuss the matter with her1  
but could not delay my stay in          
,columbia4  ,at the foot of the         
foregoing1 ,mr4 ,carr writes a hurried  
note to his wife1 on enclosing her the  
letter3 ,i wrote ,brother ,burns that ,i
 would rather trust you to read the     
proof than anybody4 ,i am afraid ,i     
cannot get the work done1 even next     
month4 ,i have to settle a church here4 
,while churches are thus wrangling among
 themselves1 and sinners are standing   
aloof1 taking notes on the ,war of the  
,christians1 and the ,biography is      
apparently fated never to get itself    
into type1 ,mrs4 ,maria ,jameson1       
national president of the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4   
,m41 writes to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i read your
 letter to the ,board1 and there was a  
unanimous expression of gratification at

 its contents4 ,you are one of the women
 among us who can make public addresses4
 ,now1 if you are willing1 we will      
utilize this talent4 ,public lectures1  
properly advertised1 designed to attract
 attention to missionary work1          
particularly to the work of our women1  
might do great good4 ,of course1 you    
will have to use judgment in selecting  
the places for the addresses4 ,no       
provision has been made for an outlay of
 money in this matter1 as we can ill    
afford to divert a dollar from regular  
work4 ,i believe1 as a public speaker1  
you will spread the name1 and strengthen
 the influence1 of the ,christian       
,woman's ,board of ,missions4  ,w4 ,b4  
,johnson of the ,christian ,publishing  
,company1 ,st4 ,louis1 to ,mrs4 ,carr3  
,your ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 notes will appear 
in next week's paper2 and ,i will also  
speak of the ,university1 and of your   
work there4  ,m4 ,b4 ,mason1 ,principal 
,meadville ,public ,schools1 to ,mrs4   
,carr3 ,we intend to celebrate          

,whittier's birthday with suitable      
entertainment4 ,will you please send    
some suggestions regarding arrangements1
 program1 etc8  ,mrs4 ,maria ,jameson to
 ,mrs4 ,carr1 ,november #a3 ,ever since 
our parting1 ,i have purposed writing to
 express the pleasure given me by an    
increased acquaintance with you4 ,during
 our recent convention1 ,i learned to   
feel constantly that ,i had an able     
ally1 quick to see what was needed in an
 emergency1 and able to act             
intelligently and promptly4 ,i wish you 
would write occasionally to me during   
the year2 so many new sides of things   
are evolved by talking them over4 ,my   
daughter and son-in-law are back from   
their trip abroad1 and1 of course1 ,i   
have not had time for much1 besides     
talking to them2 but in a short time my 
thoughts will be turned to our work4    
,with the help and blessing of ,god1 ,i 
will do everything in my power this year
 for its development4 ,let ',for        
,christ's sake' be our motto1 and in his

 blessed name we shall do many wonderful
 things4 ,pray always with me1 and for  
me1 my dear sister1 that we may prove   
faithful until the end4  ,enough has    
been said about ,mr4 ,carr's work as    
,state ,evangelist--his work of several 
years1--to suggest the arduous nature of
 that labor4 ,passing by any further    
details1 we turn for a moment to the    
,biography1 which did1 after all1 find  
its way into cloth and ,morocco1 in     
#ahhe1 under the title1 ,memorial of ,j4
 ,k4 ,rogers and ,history of ,christian 
,college4  ,the book is divided into    
three parts3 the first1 of about #bjj   
pages1 is devoted to the ,life1 ,letters
 and ,addresses of ,j4 ,k4 ,rogers2 the 
second1 of some #cj pages1 is called    
,history of ,christian ,college2 while  
the third of about #ajj pages1 bears the
 title--,some ,essays and ,poems of     
,pupils of ,christian ,college1 ,edited 
by ,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr1 ,principal of   
the ,ladies ,department of the          
,university of the ,state of ,missouri4 

,this ,part ,third of the ,memorial1 is 
the only work left by ,mrs4 ,carr1 in   
book form4 ,as we have seen1 she        
undertook the editorship of the         
collection of essays and poems of the   
,alumnae1 at the request of her husband1
 in order to hasten the publication of  
the book4  ,joseph ,kirtley ,rogers was 
born in ,fayette ,county1 ,kentucky1 in 
#ahbh4 ,when he was two years of age1   
his parents left ,lexington on a thirty 
days' journey to the wild and           
,indian-infested ,west1 pitching their  
tent finally about twelve miles west of 
,palmyra1 ,missouri4 ,here they lived in
 their log cabin4 ,game was abundant1   
says the ,memorial2 panthers screamed1  
wolves howled2 bears roamed the thick   
woods2 deer were a common sight1 and    
wild turkeys hovered in the tree tops4  
,it was near the birthplace and boyhood 
scenes of ,mark ,twain1 and the author  
of ,tom ,sawyer had no need to go       
outside of ,marion ,county to find the  
original of his ,colonel ,mulberry      

,sellers4  ,when ,william ,muldrow with 
others1 borrowed #bj1jjj to establish a 
great college--,marion ,college--on the 
western prairie1 purchasing therewith   
#d1ifi acres1 and confidently expecting 
a future hay crop to reimburse the      
teachers1 he fathered a scheme that the 
colonel might have joyfully laid out    
with his toothpick upon his tablecloth4 
,to this college ,rogers went1--until it
 died2 then he attended the ,university 
at ,columbia4  ,christian ,college was  
the first institution for the collegiate
 education of ,protestant women to      
receive a charter from the ,legislature 
of ,missouri4 ,the enterprise was       
largely due to the work of ,d4 ,p4      
,henderson1 minister of the ,christian  
,church at ,columbia1 and ,dr4 ,samuel  
,hatch and ,prof4 ,henry ,h4 ,white of  
,bacon ,college1 ,harrodsburg1 ,ky4     
,when ,jas4 ,shannon of ,bacon ,college1
 was elected to the presidency of       
,missouri ,university1 he recommended a 
former pupil for the presidency of the  

contemplated college4 ,this pupil1 ,john
 ,augustus ,williams1 held the position 
from the opening of ,christian ,college 
until #ahef1 when he resigned to        
establish ,daughters ,college at        
,harrodsburg4 ,it is an odd coincidence 
that ,williams should have gone from    
,columbia to ,harrodsburg in time to    
shape the educational life and ideals of
 ,mrs4 ,carr1 and that ,mrs4 ,carr      
should1 in the course of years1 have    
come from ,harrodsburg to ,columbia1 to 
act as associate principal in the       
college inaugurated by her favorite     
teacher4  ,john ,augustus ,williams was 
succeeded at ,christian ,college by ,l4 
,b4 ,wilkes4 ,during the latter's       
administration1 ,j4 ,k4 ,rogers from    
,marion ,county1 ,mo41 acted as         
instructor2 at the close of ,president  
,wilkes' second year1 ,rogers became the
 third president of the institution2 a  
position which he occupied for nearly   
twenty years1 and which only a fatal    
disease compelled him to relinquish4    

,during his administration there were   
#agd graduates1 and it was the          
difficulty of hearing from so many1 that
 delayed the ,memorial4  ,george ,s4    
,bryant was the fourth president1--from 
#ahgg to #ahhd4 ,his successor1 ,w4 ,a4 
,oldham1 had scarcely finished his first
 year1 when the ,memorial was published4
 ,the book is true to its title2 it is  
rather a ,memorial than a biography1 the
 work of a friend1 who prefers to quote 
such men as ,g4 ,w4 ,longan1 ,j4 ,w4    
,mc,garvey1 etc41 rather than to        
substitute words of his own4  ,and if   
the life of a minister who1 for twenty  
years1 occupies the same chair in a     
school of learning1 lacks the variety   
which gives to biography an interest to 
the general reader1 still less can the  
history of that school be offered as a  
work of entertainment4 ,something more  
may be said for the part edited by ,mrs4
 ,carr4 ,whatever lack of merit her     
collection of essays and poems reveals1 
may be charged to the paucity and       

immaturity of the material in her hands4
 ,it is fair to conclude that she gave  
us the best that the alumnae gave her2  
and the impression that most of it might
 just as well not have been preserved1  
is dissipated when we are told that     
,president ,rogers was anxious to have  
the writings of his girls published as  
his memorial1 even if no word be said   
about himself4 ,viewed1 then1 not as    
literature1 but as the fruits of his    
instruction1 these writings1 breathing  
the deepest piety1 and revealing both   
learning and grace1 hold their fitting  
place in the memorial to the ,christian 
teacher4  ,but it is because this ,part 
,third reveals the mind of her who edits
 it1 that it is of moment to our        
biography4 ,in the first chapter she    
gives us an indication of what she      
regards as of the utmost value in a     
woman's life3  ,in looking over the     
scores of letters ,i have received from 
the ,alumnae of ,christian ,college1 ,i 
find that ,i have written on the        

envelopes of about nine out of ten1 the 
word1 ,christian2 on two out of ten1 the
 word1 teacher2 and on each without     
exception1 the golden word1 home-worker4
 ,in this statistical catalogue of three
 words1 is found the grandest record of 
,christian ,college4 ,that the life-work
 of its ,alumnae has been chiefly       
confined to the church1 and the         
school-room1 and the home1 is its honor 
and renown4  ,mrs4 ,carr thus sues for  
toleration of a wrong spirit manifested 
in an essay on the ,south4 ,though the  
author evinces a little bitterness1 we  
should forgive her4 ,she wrote at the   
close of our sad civil war4 ,when she   
writes vigorously and touchingly of ',a 
,washington1 a ,jefferson1 a ,calhoun1 a
 ,clay1 a ,breckenridge1 a ,benton1'    
when she proudly says1 ',behold on      
,virginia's consecrated ground1 noble   
,bethany ,college1 and ,virginia's      
magnificent ,university1' when she turns
 lovingly to ',kentucky ,university1 one
 of the proudest in the ,union1' and    

when1 in the full bound of her loyalty  
she clasps to her heart her 'own        
,missouri ,university1'--then indeed we 
forgive1 and our heart rejoices with    
hers in a common love4  ,mrs4 ,carr thus
 introduces her third chapter3 ,if no   
,george ,eliot was found in the previous
 chapter1 so no ,elizabeth ,barrett     
,browning will be found in this4 ,if the
 reader be generous1 he will find some  
very sweet poetic thought expressed in  
verse2 but he will feel no deep         
stirrings of an angelic genius1 that    
looks through ,casa ,guida window up to 
the very gates of heaven4 ,he will find 
only the rhythmical outpourings of      
ambitious girlish hearts2 and if he     
laugh at their imperfections1 he will   
only prove that his heart is old--      
,reader1 let us not delve into these    
ambitious poems1 lest we laugh and prove
 ourselves no longer young4 ,let us come
 away1 after noting this comment on a   
poem entitled ',longfellow4'  ,having   
once met him in his poet-home1 says     

,mrs4 ,carr1 having felt the warm       
pressure of his hand1 heard the low     
music of his voice1 looked into the     
clear depth of his poetic eye--having   
felt1 in short1 the benediction of his  
presence1 ,i find in the following      
simple dirge1 a peculiar charm4 ,that   
the modest author so tenderly loved her 
nation's poet1 whose song like his own  
flower-de-luce1 shall 'make forever the 
world more fair and sweet1' evinces both
 a refined taste1 and a cultured heart4 
,gone1 now1 that good white poet1 to    
mingle in the poesy of the past2 and    
vanished is she who felt the warm       
pressure of his hand1 and looked into   
the clear depth of his poetic eye4 ,but 
the world is here as when they trod it  
beneath its daily sun2 and here are you 
and ,i4 ,happy are we1 if we find the   
world more fair and sweet because of    
those who have breathed their influence 
upon it4  ,so we lay aside this         
,memorial1 the joint work of ,mr4 and   
,mrs4 ,carr1 the only book they ever    

produced1 and go on with the story of   
their lives--a story full of incessant  
work1 its routine broken by some such   
adventures as is suggested by the       
following from ,anthony ,haynes to ,mrs4
 ,carr3 ,you are invited to read a paper
 before the ,state ,teachers'           
,association which meets at ,sweet      
,springs1 ,march #bb-bd1 #ahhf4 ,your   
cabinet is just the thing we wish to see
 at the ,display--bring it4  ,from ,mr4 
,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr1 ,june             
#fth--showing that ,mrs4 ,carr has her  
eyes unalterably set upon the future3   
,there is no advertisement of           
phonography in the ,cincinnati ,enquirer
 or the ,courier-,journal4 ,so you have 
learned the shorthand alphabet6 ,well1  
,i am sure it will require a great deal 
of practice to report verbatim4 ,i do   
want you to take a rest this summer1    
whether you learn phonography or not4   
,the truth is1 you ought to be resting  
now4  ,but the report of the ,fourth    
,annual ,convention of the ,women's     

,christian ,temperance ,union shows that
 ,mrs4 ,carr was doing anything but     
resting4 ,the ,irrepressible ,conflict  
of this year1 shows her laboring        
sturdily for temperance4 ,further       
letters show her struggling at spare    
moments with shorthand4 ,what will she  
do with that8 ,this from ,mrs4 ,s4 ,e4  
,shortridge of the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m41     
suggests a new activity3  ,sister       
,jameson was very much pleased with the 
card of flowers you sent her4 ,she is   
very greatly improved--able to see and  
enjoy her friends4 ,we had a most       
delightful conference with her last     
,sunday afternoon4 ,brother ,azbill1    
,dr4 and ,mrs4 ,pearre1 ,a4 ,m4         
,atkinson and wife were there1 besides  
the member of the board1 and others4    
,mrs4 ,jameson is still confined to her 
bed4 ,she sends her love and says she   
will write very soon4 ,perhaps you can  
get your leaflet printed at ,kansas     
,city4 ,the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 will highly 
appreciate your kindness in the         

preparation of a leaflet1 in the midst  
of your various duties and obligations4 
,there is a growing demand for such     
information4 ,i am anxiously awaiting   
its appearance4  ,in the same year1 ,o4 
,a4 ,carr attended a meeting of the     
,alumni of ,kentucky ,university1 and in
 a public address1 thus referred to his 
own graduating class3 ,the class of     
#ahfg has never appeared on this rostrum
 since commencement day nineteen years  
ago4 ,we were three then2 we are two    
now4 ,we were called the ,trio4 ,for    
nigh six years of student life we were  
boon companions4 ,we shared our mutual  
joys1 our mutual burdens bore1 in a most
 intimate friendship4 ,we planned our   
future so that our paths might often    
cross each other1 but duty called us to 
labor in fields as far apart as         
,colorado1 ,california1 ,australia4     
,when ,james ,c4 ,keith1 ,president of  
,pierce ,christian ,college1            
,california1 and ,i were corresponding1 
concerning this meeting of today1 our   

hearts cried out for the absent one--the
 noble1 generous1 gifted1 brilliant     
valedictorian of our class4 ,in the     
hearts of those who knew him1 there     
arises1 as a sweet fragrance1 the memory
 of ,albert ,myles4  ,not long after the
 delivery of this tribute1 ,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4
 ,burgess wrote to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i was  
in ,indianapolis a few weeks ago1 and   
found our dear ,sister ,jameson better  
than ,i hoped4 ,i had a delightful visit
 with her4 ,she realizes that she is    
soon to leave us1 but is as bright and  
cheerful as she ever was in her life1   
and her interest in the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 
is unabated4 ,allow me to congratulate  
you on the rapid growth of the ,c4 ,w4  
,b4 ,m4 in ,missouri4 ,you certainly    
must have efficient workers4 ,your      
article on ',how to ,organize an        
,auxiliary' will meet a long felt need4 
,november #bg1 #ahhf1 ,mrs4 ,shortridge 
wrote3 ,am sending you our amended      
,constitution and the ,december         
,tidings4 ,in the list of ,missouri     

officers you will notice your name as a 
manager4 ,i hope you will approve4 ,the 
relation between yourself as ,vice      
,president1 and the ,executive          
,committee1 has been so pleasant and    
congenial1 that we are unwilling to     
sever it altogether4 ,we need your help1
 and will be grateful at any time for   
suggestions4 ,your leaflet1 you so      
kindly prepared1 has been most useful to
 me in answering the question1 ,how to  
,organize2 and it has been a means of   
encouragement to a great many timid     
sisters4 ,indeed1 my dear sister1 when  
,i think how promptly you have responded
 to my requests for help1 how your      
loving words of appreciation have lifted
 me up when almost discouraged and ready
 to give up the struggle1--the tears    
come to my eyes1 and ,i ask ,god to     
bless you abundantly4  ,the leaflet     
referred to1 is by ,mrs4 ,carr1 as      
,president of the ,missouri ,state      
,board1 and is addressed to ,the #ci1jjj
 ,missouri ,sisters who wear the badge  

of the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 ,it is an        
eloquent and logical presentation of the
 value of organization4  ,from ,mrs4    
,maria ,jameson1 came the following1    
,october #d1 #ahhf3 ,your loving message
 with the pretty card was received with 
heartfelt thanks to ,god1 who has given 
me the love of so many warm hearts4     
,surely in this regard1 never was woman 
more blessed4 ,with humble heart ,i     
accept it as one of the ways the kind   
,father 'is making his grace sufficient 
for me4' ,of course1 ,i am thinking much
 of the ,kansas ,city convention4 ,you  
and ,i have begun an acquaintance so    
pleasant--you enter so readily and      
heartily into my views and plans--so    
ready to render me judicious and active 
assistance1 that ,i looked forward with 
increased pleasure to the labor of      
coming years4 ,but 'man proposes and    
,god disposes4' ,i almost dare think    
that ,he wished to give me a special    
lesson of the absolute dependence of all
 my plans upon ,his sovereign will4     

,when ,i knew beyond a doubt that ,i    
could not be present1 the question rose1
 ,who will occupy the vacant chair8 ,one
 day it flashed across my mind that now 
we had the opportunity of making a      
graceful public testimonial of our      
respect to the woman whom the ,c4 ,w4   
,b4 ,m4 delights to honor--,mrs4        
,pearre1 who is this year1 for almost   
the first time1 free from school duties4
 ,you1 as ,vice ,president1 will open   
the convention's sessions with the usual
 exercises4 ,mrs4 ,pearre's name will be
 received by acclamation1 and you will  
conduct her to the chair1 and give her  
all the help and encouragement you would
 have given me1 staying beside her1     
informing her and supporting her        
according to requirement4 ,what shall ,i
 say of myself8 ,i have through all my  
life received wondrous good from ,god2  
shall ,i not patiently receive evil1    
also8 ,pray earnestly for me1 that ,i   
may cheerfully yes1 joyfully1 submit to 
,his will4  ,in #ahhg1 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr    

went to ,arkansas to look about for a   
promising field1 where he might labor in
 the ministry1 and his wife1 in her own 
chosen profession4 ,he writes from ,fort
 ,smith3 ,i lectured last night to a    
moderate audience4 ,we have a neat      
little frame church here4 ,the preacher 
has been re-elected2 #bb for1 #ab       
against4 ,i am sorry for him2 but he is 
going to stick to them4 ,he is a        
pleasant man1 and very kind4 ,they are  
remarkably hospitable here4 ,i send you 
a little bouquet from the front yard4   
,think of violets and roses1 a month    
ahead of the ,missouri bloom6 ,you will 
recognize the two large leaves2 they are
 maple6 ,it is now about as warm as a   
,june day at home4 ,i don't believe you 
could have any success here during the  
summer1 in teaching elocution and       
phonography2 for ,i am told that the    
people take holiday during the summer   
months1 and take it very                
extensively--even the laboring men1     
because they are afraid to work much4   

,people are dropping in here quietly1   
buying1 and slipping out4 ,there will   
probably be a rise in property after the
 bridge is built into the ,indian       
,territory4 ,work is begun on a ,u4 ,s4 
court room and new post office4 ,there  
is tied up in this nosegay a great deal 
of love for my wife4 ,i go to ,alma     
tomorrow4 7,so now we begin to          
understand what that short hand meant6  
,there are to be no more vacations1 it  
seems47  ,april #acth1 ,mr4 ,carr wrote 
from ,fayetteville1 ,arkansas3 ,brother 
,ragland tries to convince me that we   
ought to come here1 and establish a     
,young ,ladies' ,college1 in connection 
with the ,university--but young ladies  
attend the ,university4 ,he says our    
church has no school in ,arkansas1 and  
,fayetteville is the educational center1
 etc4 ,brother ,robt4 ,graham started a 
college here in #aheh and continued it  
successfully until the war broke it up  
in #ahfb4 ,his college building was     
burned4 ,he had five acres1 most        

beautiful site4 ,his residence is       
standing yet4 ,i attended the opening   
exercises at the ,university4 ,some of  
the professors remembered you2 they     
heard your lecture at ,sweet ,springs4  
,the ,university is upon a hill and is  
imposing4 ,i could not make an          
arrangement for a meeting at ,fort      
,smith1 because it is cotton-planting   
time1 and the people are very busy4     
,after preaching at ,alma two days 7and 
receiving #f7 ,i came here4 ,i will stop
 at ,springfield1 ,mo41 tonight1 and may
 remain over ,sunday1 as ,i am told they
 have no preacher4 ,i have seen several 
young ladies and talked up ,christian   
,college1 distributed catalogues1 etc41 
but they object that ,columbia is too   
far away4  ,mr4 ,carr1 from             
,springfield1 ,mo41 ,may #acth1 showing 
that ,springfield is beginning to enter 
largely into his life2 ,i preached last 
night on ',quench not the ,spirit1' and 
ended the ,ash ,grove meeting4 ,the sale
 of the college is postponed sixty days4

 ,sister ,bander said my sermon was much
 needed4 ,there now6 she is a judge4    
,they want you to send some of your     
tracts on ',how to ,organize an         
,auxiliary' here1 to ,springfield4  ,mr4
 ,carr from ,paris1 ,ky41 ,june #ith3 ,i
 received your good letter1 and was     
reading it in ,morrison ,chapel1 as ,i  
sat beside ,alex4 ,milligan4 ,he saw the
 flowers enclosed1 and said1 ',i thought
 you were over that6' ,i told him that  
was an old bachelor's idea of the       
matter--just as though true love would  
ever get over it6 ,i told ,brother      
,mc,garvey what was in your letter4 ,it 
is all right2 but ,brother ,graham asked
 at first1 if it was wise for you to    
give up your work at the ,university4   
,when ,i see you1 ,i'll tell you about  
,hamilton ,college4 ,i am here over     
night with ,minnie ,fox4 ,john is home  
from ,new ,york on a visit4 ,we talked  
so late last night that ,i could        
scarcely get up this morning6 ,saw      
,brother ,grubbs at ,lexington4 ,monday 

,i take the boat for ,cincinnati1 and   
expect to be in ,st4 ,louis at the      
,union ,depot1 ,tuesday morning next4 ,i
 had a fine sleep on the ,st4 ,lawrence1
 and didn't wake up till the boat       
whistled for ,maysville4 ,i hurried up  
and found mother busy skimming milk4    
,she can not walk far2 her ankle seems  
to be ossifying4 ,she is all the while  
anxious about the children for whom she 
has worn out her strength4 ,if ,i had   
not engaged at ,springfield1 ,i might   
have gone to ,mt4 ,sterling or          
,louisville4 ,i don't know but what     
,springfield is as good a place for     
regular employment as the other places4 
,the idea is to be content1 and do the  
work well4 ,i want you to have a year's 
good rest4 ,now is your time to rest4   
,get the good out of old ,jeff4 ,make   
him flutter around4 ,i think he had     
better be sold to some one in ,columbia 
where he is known4 ,minnie ,fox is a    
fine girl4 ,she says she would love to  
be with you in ,springfield4 ,john is   

home now for vacation1 but is going to  
the coal mines in ,southern ,kentucky   
7where his fancy is one day to follow   
the trail of the ,lonesome ,pine1 and   
discover a little shepherd herding the  
sheep in ,kingdom ,come47 ,he says he   
would like to be one of the ,assistants 
at the ,university4 ,i told him you are 
going to rest1 and he wants to know     
whether there would be a chance for him 
to get in4 ,he could bring              
testimonials--his ,harvard diploma would
 be something4 ,if you think well of it1
 you could present his name4 ,he took   
the honors at ,harvard1 and has been    
tutoring in ,new ,york ever since4 ,he  
is a teacher by education and by nature4
 ,do as you think best about it4  ,from 
the foregoing it is clear that ,mrs4    
,carr has definitely decided to         
relinquish her post of service at the   
,university of ,missouri4 ,that she     
needed rest1 there can be no doubt4     
,that she needed undivided time in which
 to mature plans for her future college1

 against the day of opportunity1 is     
equally certain4 ,at ,springfield1      
,missouri1 ,mr4 ,carr entered upon a    
three year's service4 ,as soon as ,mrs4 
,carr could sever her connections with  
the ,university1 she joined him4  ,her  
work for the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 still      
continued4 ,we find her delivering      
addresses1 arranging programs1 and      
lecturing4 ,mrs4 ,jameson1 ,mrs4        
,pearre1 ,mrs4 ,shortridge1 etc41       
continue to write her for wise counsel1 
in grave times of anxious               
consideration--for instance1 when the   
,constitution was altered1 when plans   
were on foot to make the ,tidings a     
stronger magazine1 etc4 ,when ,mrs4     
,carr ceased to hold an official        
position under the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 the  
appeals to her for advice and help came 
just as frequently as when she was      
,president of the ,state ,board4  ,her  
work in the ,w4 ,c4 ,t4 ,u4 was also    
unabated1 and during #ahhh1 she took an 
active part in the prohibition candidacy

 of ,john ,a4 ,brooks for the           
governorship4 ,a letter from ,e4 ,c4    
,browning requests ,mrs4 ,carr to do the
 ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 work of ,mrs4          
,browning1 whom ill-health prevents from
 performing her duties as manager in    
,southern ,missouri4 ,she is also       
engaged in lecturing on her tour of the 
world1 taking opportunity as she goes   
from city to city1 to investigate the   
prospects for a new college4  ,in the   
,nevada ,daily ,democrat of ,october    
#aath1 we find this estimate of ,mrs4   
,carr as a public lecturer3 ,the lady   
reads her lecture from manuscript1 and  
has a very plain1 clear voice which can 
be distinctly heard all over the room4  
,her diction is fine4 ,she is1 indeed1 a
 pleasant reader1 almost perfect in her 
pronunciation and emphasis4             
,,chapter ,,xvii4  ,,achieving ,,one',s 
,,ideal4   ,the six years following     
,mrs4 ,carr's connection with the       
,university of the ,state of ,missouri1 
might be characterized as the time of   

preparation1 struggle and victory2      
preparation in the definite formulation 
of plans for her last educational       
experience2 struggle to find the        
suitable place and the requisite means  
for the establishment of her college1   
and the victory of final achievement4   
,this period extends from #ahhh to      
#ahid4  ,as we have seen1 it was ,mr4   
,carr's earnest desire for his wife to  
take a long rest1 on his acceptance of  
the church at ,springfield2 and no      
attentive reader of ,mrs4 ,carr's life  
can doubt the need of rest at this      
time--a rest which1 in her case1 meant  
keeping house--the every-day work of    
many women4  ,while she rests1 this     
biography may also rest1 in the respect 
of dealing with events1 since the       
occurrences in the simple life are most 
enjoyed in proportion as they make dull 
reading1 and the days at ,springfield   
were happy days4  ,to illustrate ,mrs4  
,carr's force of character it may be    
related that one day when her finger was

 cut off1 she found the dismembered part
 in the folding door1 quickly fastened  
the end back in place1 and held it there
 till help could be summoned4  ,a brief 
note from the ,ladies ,aid ,society of  
,sheldon1 ,missouri1 asking if ,mrs4    
,carr can come to deliver a lecture in  
their interests1 must be taken as an    
example of countless others of a similar
 nature4 ,the following statement from  
the ,president of the ,missouri         
,university1 fitly serves as a          
transition from former experiences1 to  
the new phase of ,mrs4 ,carr's career4  
,it is addressed to her3  ,during my    
administration of the ,missouri         
,university for thirteen years1 you     
occupied faithfully and efficiently and 
acceptably the position of ,lady        
,principal1 for eight or ten years4     
,this position you resigned of your own 
choice4 ,it was not done at the advice1 
or the instance1 of either the ,board or
 the ,president of the institution4 ,you
 had always done considerable teaching1 

as well as serving as ,principal1 and it
 was always my understanding that it was
 not your pleasure to hold the position 
apart from teaching2 and as the care had
 so grown as to make that               
overburdensome1 when you withdrew1 a    
successor was appointed who has never   
done any teaching4 ,as a matter of fact1
 when you resigned1 ,i did not fully    
understand your reason for doing so4    
,allow me to express my appreciation for
 your great worth as an educator1 and to
 assure you of my earnest hope that your
 enterprise at ,sherman will more than  
realize your purposes and expectations4 
,this letter from ,dr4 ,s4 ,s4 ,laws was
 written in #ahia1 which brings us      
rather prematurely to the subject of    
,sherman4 ,the reader will find that in 
the course of events1 all interests will
 presently center in that ,texas city2  
but1 as we have said1 ,mrs4 ,carr is now
 resting 7#ahhh-i7 and the biography1 as
 a chronicle of events1 rests with her4 
,but while household cares engage her   

time1 her mind is ever active with that 
great idea of her life which has        
attended her since childhood days1 and  
which we are1 in the course of time1 to 
find bringing her to the highest        
fulfillment of her powers4 ,we have seen
 how that tireless nature has fought its
 way from battlefield to battlefield1   
ever progressing in its educational     
career4 ,it is not clearly defined to   
her judgment how1 or where1 she is to   
take the final stand in her work of     
improving the greatest number of girls  
in the most effective way1 yet1 by      
following the clews given in the        
following letters1 we may trace out her 
course to its final destination4  ,but  
if ,mrs4 ,carr has temporarily entered  
into what we may call--as distinguished 
from other years--her period of rest1   
the following clipping from a newspaper 
dated1 ,may1 #ahhi1 will indicate that  
,mr4 ,carr has been far otherwise       
engaged3  ,sunday night1 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr  
stated to his congregation that he had a

 secret of several months' standing     
which he was agonizing to disclose4 ,the
 long cherished hope of his             
congregation1 and indeed of the ,north  
,town disciples was about to be         
realized--the erection of a church      
building in ,north ,springfield4 ,he    
said the money is already raised and the
 building will begin as soon as         
specifications are determined upon4 ,he 
stated that the disciples of ,christ    
with whom he had been meeting in the    
,good ,templars' ,hall1 for nearly two  
years1 would begin1 next ,sunday1       
regular church work preparatory to      
entering their new church home in the   
near future4 ,with the dawning light of 
the permanent prosperity of the church  
of ,north ,springfield filling their    
hearts1 the congregation was dismissed1 
and the scene of rejoicing that followed
 cannot be described4  ,mrs4 ,carr in   
commenting upon this news1 adds1 ,north 
,springfield has a population of about  
#aj1jjj1 and a struggling little band of

 ,christians have been praying and      
working for the above happy             
consummation1 for years4  ,this brief   
news-item reveals1 to those who have    
built churches1 years of labor1 anxiety1
 and suffering4 ,in the meantime1 the   
quest for a suitable college opening is 
never relinquished4 ,now that the church
 is built1 one is freer to look about4  
,mr4 ,carr1 having served three years at
 ,springfield1 ,mo41 is invited to come 
to ,arkansas and examine the field4     
,the brethren will help support and     
establish a college here1 writes ,g4 ,w4
 ,hudspeth4 ,i would like to have it at 
,little ,rock1 but do not know that she 
would offer as much encouragement as a  
smaller town with no college4 ,i have   
about #djj lots in a railroad town of   
which ,i will give sufficient grounds   
for a college building2 and allow the   
other lots sold1 and donate one-third of
 the proceeds to the support of the     
college4  ,in ,december of the same     
year--#ahij--,mr4 ,carr writes from     

,bates ,city to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,it seems  
to me that the ,sherman proposition is  
the best that has been made you1 and ,i 
want you to see your way clear1 and at  
the same time ,i want you to act on your
 own judgment4 ,you say you will accept 
the terms1 if they suit4 ,i hope you    
will have some word of cheer to send    
before long4 ,do not be gloomy and      
downcast4  ,a few days after1 the       
following from ,j4 ,w4 ,mc,garvey is    
written to ,mr4 ,carr1 showing that the 
terms of ,sherman were far from         
persuasive3 ,your letter surprises me1  
for ,i thought that you and ,sister     
,carr had already moved to ,sherman1    
,texas1 and were at work there4 ,the    
,broadway ,church has engaged ,brother  
,bartholomew to preach one year1 and    
superintend the erection of a new house 
of worship1 after which he returns to   
,st4 ,louis to build a new house there4 
,i hope the school at ,sherman has not  
gone amiss1 and that it will not be     
affected by the college boom at ,dallas4

  ,mrs4 ,carr1 in explaining why        
,sherman was chosen as the site for her 
important venture1 wrote3 ,after a long 
and arduous term of labor as ,adjunct   
,professor and ,principal of the ,ladies
 ,department in ,missouri ,state        
,university my nervous system broke     
down1 and ,i am compelled to suspend my 
work4 ,mr4 ,carr accepted a call to     
preach at ,springfield1 ,mo41 believing 
the altitude would conduce to the       
restoration of my health4 ,breathing the
 ozone of the ,ozarks1 ,i was soon a new
 creature1 and ,i determined to resume  
my professional labors4 ,the thought1   
like an inspiration1 came to me1 ',build
 a college for girls1 consecrate your   
life to it1 and leave it as a bequest to
 the ,church4' ,i told ,mr4 ,carr of my 
heart's desire1 and after prayerful     
consideration1 we resolved to devote our
 united lives to the work4 ,i visited a 
number of towns and cities in ,missouri1
 ,tennessee and ,kentucky1 seeking a    
suitable location4 ,after ,i had spent a

 year thus1 ,mr4 ,carr went to ,sherman1
 ,texas1 to conduct a series of         
meetings1 and some of the prominent     
citizens1 having learned what we        
purposed1 expressed a desire to have the
 college located at ,sherman4 ,a        
proposition was submitted1 which ,mr4   
,carr forwarded me at ,springfield1     
advising me to come and look into the   
matter4 ,i came1 amused at the idea of  
locating our life-work in ,texas2 but ,i
 was then ignorant of her marvelous     
developments1 and of her still more     
marvelous undeveloped resources4 ,i     
visited a number of her splendid towns1 
and ascertained that in the wide        
territory of the ,state1 the ,church of 
,christ owned no college exclusively for
 girls4  ,it would be a brief story to  
say that ,sherman was finally selected  
and the college built there2 but how1 in
 that case1 could the reader gain a     
knowledge of the almost insuperable     
difficulties overcome8 ,it is by such a 
knowledge that we gain the clearest view

 of ,mrs4 ,carr's character4 ,she was1  
no doubt1 often despondent1 but she     
never relinquished her determination2   
nor did her zeal cause her to act too   
hastily4 ,although ,sherman now appeared
 desirable1 no stone must be left       
unturned to discover if there were towns
 more promising4  ,january #ah1 #ahia1  
we find ,president ,j4 ,w4 ,ellis       
writing from ,plattsburg ,college1      
,missouri1 to ,mr4 ,carr3 ,i wrote you a
 hasty note on receipt of your last4 ,if
 you had carried the letter a little    
longer in your pocket1 you might have   
weakened it so it might not have got    
here6 ,in regard to ,sister ,carr's     
quest--,plattsburg ,college is now      
prosperous and has been for eleven      
years4 ,i would be willing to sell it at
 a nominal price1 to get rest from the  
long-continued service of a teacher and 
his wife4 ,i see no reason why ,sister  
,carr could not continue the flourishing
 condition of the school4 ,campus1 four 
acres1 unencumbered1 non-taxable4       

,february #ab1 #ahia1 ,wm4 ,frazier     
wrote ,mr4 ,carr from ,calusa1          
,california3 ,at the suggestion of      
,brethren ,j4 ,c4 ,keith and ,w4 ,p4    
,dorsey1 ,i address you this note to    
say3 ,for some #ad years1 ,brother      
,keith has been ,president of ,pierce   
,christian ,college2 lately he sent in  
his resignation2 we will have to supply 
his place4 ,i feel at liberty to ask if 
you will be open for engagement next    
session1 beginning ,september #ast4 ,i  
am ,president of the ,board of          
,trustees1 and the ,board looks to me to
 attend to these matters4 ,the church at
 ,college ,city will be without a       
preacher in ,june2 so the ,president of 
the college will most likely be called  
to preach for the church4 ,i ought to   
have said that ,brother ,keith's health 
has been poor for three years1 and his  
physicians advise a change and rest4    
,o4 ,a4 ,carr1 in forwarding this letter
 to his wife1 adds1 ,the above received 
to-day4 ,i answered by saying1 ',send on

 your proposition1 ,i will consider it4'
 ,why not get an appointment to lecture 
at ,galveston8 ,you could easily run    
down there from ,sherman1 and see the   
place4  ,mr4 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr1      
,march #bnd3 ,i have just written to    
,brother ,keith in full asking all the  
questions you suggested1 and several    
besides4 ,i told him we would come1 and 
,i could begin preaching for the church 
right away4 ,i asked him to send you a  
catalogue at ,sherman4 ,it may be that  
the ,california plan is better than the 
,texas one4 ,i have but one objection1  
which ,i waive for your sake--,i will be
 so far away from my kin1 and the       
friends of early days4 ,besides1 you    
know ,i prefer preaching to teaching2   
but ,i suppose ,i could do both at      
,college ,city1 after a fashion4 ,so    
,brother ,capp is to be at ,springfield6
 ,well1 ,i would rather have him succeed
 me than any one else1 for the good of  
the church4 ,address me at ,omaha4  ,l4 
,b4 ,wilkes1 at ,stockton1 ,california1 

to ,o4 ,a4 ,carr3 ,i wrote to ,brother  
,frazier4 ,the place at ,college ,city  
is yours1 it seems1 if you want it4 ,you
 had better have them as a ,board1 send 
an official letter1 saying just what    
terms they mean to propose4 ,if there's 
anything ,i can do1 ,i am ready4  ,wm4  
,frazier to ,l4 ,b4 ,wilkes1 ,march     
#afth3 ,i have written to ,sister ,carr1
 making ,brother ,carr an offer to take 
our college1 and am now anxiously       
awaiting an answer4 ,what a grand       
service you could be to us1 ,brother    
,wilkes1 if you could write to ,brother 
,carr and induce him to come and see our
 college4  ,instead of quoting further1 
the ,pierce ,college incident may be    
summed up as follows3 ,the ,executive   
,board called ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr to   
,pierce ,christian ,college of          
,california4 ,the call was accepted4    
,mrs4 ,carr gave up the ,sherman idea2  
all property at their death was to go to
 ,pierce ,christian ,college2 an        
accident policy in favor of the college 

was arranged4 ,she accordingly wired to 
,college ,city that she would be there  
by the #cjth2 sold the ponies and       
carriage and the household goods at a   
sacrifice of about #a1jjj 7,mr4 ,carr   
was then in ,nebraska71 and was in due  
time joined by her husband4  ,the ticket
 agent secured their tickets4 ,they were
 on the eve of departure when a message 
from the ,president of the ,board called
 off the agreement4 ,opposition had     
arisen on the grounds that ,mr4 ,carr   
did not1 in some of his opinions1 accord
 with all of those on the ,board4  ,mr4 
,carr1 under the blow of this           
disappointment1 wrote to ,mr4 ,frazier  
as follows3 ,your reasons for           
withdrawing your offer are as great a   
surprise to me as was the telegram      
announcing the fact4 ,i stand where     
,brothers ,wilkes1 ,keith1 ,graham1     
,mc,garvey and ,grubbs stand4 ,i        
emphatically encourage and practice     
progression heavenward4 ,i will not     
desert the cause of ,christ for the     

fashion of the giddy world4 ,having no  
children1 ,mrs4 ,carr has been planning 
for several years to locate in a college
 which1 at my death1 would receive our  
money4 ,we had decided upon ,pierce     
,christian ,college4 ,i tell you this   
that you may know how completely you    
have upset our plans4  ,the foregoing is
 introduced into this biography merely  
by way of illustrating the difficulties 
with which the ,carrs were forced to    
contend1 before the final victory4      
,thus is the ,california incident       
closed4 ,the ,carrs once more find      
themselves beset by uncertainties4 ,mr4 
,carr writes to their ,springfield      
friend1 ,mrs4 ,weaver1 showing how one  
pauses irresolutely before various      
openings3  ,i have been preaching at    
,council ,bluffs1 of late4 ,i haven't   
yet decided where ,i shall labor4 ,i am 
waiting to hear from different points1  
and then we'll go somewhere4 ,president 
,j4 ,w4 ,ellis of ,plattsburg1 ,mo41    
offers us his college4 ,i don't know    

about it4 ,there is no offer so good as 
,sherman1 ,i think4 ,tell ,miss ,kate to
 write to me in shorthand if she likes4 
,i leave the other side of this sheet   
for ,mattie to say her say4  ,mrs4 ,carr
 adds3 ,it is good of you to say my room
 is waiting for me4 ,i shall never      
forget your kindness1 coming just when  
it was most needed4 ,i do try to be     
cheerful and hopeful4 ,we have the      
comfort that we have tried all along to 
do our duty1 to the best of our ability4
 ,i believe the ,lord has a bright day  
in store for us1 by and by1 if we will  
only be patient and stand for the right4
  ,june #bcrd1 ,f4 ,w4 ,smith wrote to  
,mrs4 ,carr answering her questions     
regarding the ,tennessee ,female        
,college at ,franklin4 ,he hesitates to 
advise her to accept it1 but believes   
she could make of it a success1 and     
assures her of his hearty support should
 she undertake the work there4  ,about  
the same time1 ,w4 ,j4 ,loos writes to  
,mr4 ,carr from ,louisville3 ,we have   

your article from the ,guide2 had just  
received a note from ,mrs4 ,carr        
covering the same ground4 ,i will keep  
an eye on the field1 and if ,i see any  
favorable opening1 will let you know4 ,i
 think you ought to appear more         
frequently in the ,guide4  ,in #ahia1   
the ,carrs are thinking of going to     
,kentucky with their enterprise4 ,in    
,september1 ,mr4 ,carr writes to ,mrs4  
,carr from ,brother ,mc,garvey's study3 
,brother ,bartholomew says he will      
prepare you a prospective so that a cut 
can be made from it1 of the college     
building1 if you will give him the idea 
as to size1 etc41 and that it can be    
done in three or four days4 ,for his    
work1 he will charge nothing1 but he    
will have to pay the man who does the   
drawing for the cut1 and the cut will   
cost about #ae4 ,tentative diagrams at  
this time1 show that ,mrs4 ,carr was    
making her own designs1 arranging the   
rooms of her college--wherever it was to
 be--to suit her own ideas4 ,it is no   

easy matter to make the cut of our      
college before there is any college4    
,still it must be done1 to bring the    
scheme tangibly before the public1 and  
one's imagination must become fixed in  
steel4  ,september #ith1 ,mrs4 ,carr    
writes ,mrs4 ,weaver from ,omaha3 ,i    
hope to be with you next week4 ,i shall 
be in ,springfield only a few days1 ,i  
presume4 ,then ,i shall go on to        
,sherman1 to begin the ,college         
enterprise4 ,my love to ,tillie4        
7,tillie was ,mrs4 ,weaver's little     
daughter47 ,tell the dear child to have 
a dozen kisses ready for me4  ,affairs  
seem to be crystalizing in and about    
,sherman1 ,texas4 ,a site is            
provisionally chosen for the proposed   
college1 on a beautiful elevation1 says 
,mrs4 ,carr1 in her eastern suburb1     
overlooking an immense circuit of       
country1 as charming as the bluegrass   
region of our native ,state4  ,a mass   
meeting of the citizens of ,sherman was 
called1 which ,mrs4 ,carr addresses in  

the interests of the enterprise4 ,the   
arguments she produces appear to cover  
all the ground in sight1 and all        
probable contingencies of the future4   
,she says3  ,if another girls college be
 established in ,sherman1 it will bring 
among you many more girls4 ,they1 in    
boarding-school vocabulary1 will 'get   
awful hungry1' and must be fed4 ,our    
grocers will have to order a large      
supply of boarding-school staples1 and  
our meat markets will have to multiply  
their sirloin roasts and porterhouse    
steaks4 ,these girls will have boxes of 
roast turkey and ,french candies        
smuggled to them by sympathetic mamas1  
and nature in her mercy1 will send a    
wave of nausea1 and a cry will go up for
 our ,homeopathic ,m4 ,d4 with his      
pleasant little pills1 or for our old   
school dignified ,regular with his      
calomel and quinine1 or for our cautious
 ,eclectic with his 'best' from all     
schools1 and each will add to his list  
of patients1 and our druggists will     

multiply their prescriptions1 and their 
profits4 ,these girls will delight in   
pretty dresses and becoming hats--4 ,and
 so the dry goods stores will have their
 innings1 and the milliners4 ,hope is   
next held out to the bookstores1 the    
music supply companies1 the opera house1
 the street car lines1 etc4  ,perhaps it
 is not so apparent what advantage the  
new college may be to those institutions
 already established in the city4 ,but  
,mrs4 ,carr promptly takes up this      
point1 and elucidates it with faultless 
logic3  ,for example1 ,miss ,smith1 who 
is a member of the ,christian ,church1  
comes from ,galveston1 and attends the  
,christian ,college of ,sherman4 ,she is
 pleased with the school and delighted  
with our town4 ,when she returns home1  
at the close of her session she tells   
her intimate ,baptist friend1 ,miss     
,jones1 and her intimate ,methodist     
friend1 ,miss ,brown1 what a delightful 
place ,sherman is1 and how 'jolly' it   
would be for all to go to school in the 

same town1 etc4 ,what is the result8    
,the following ,september ,sherman      
,institute opens its doors to ,miss     
,jones1 and ,north ,texas ,female       
,college welcomes ,miss ,brown4 ,but    
that is not all4 ,miss ,jones of        
,galveston has a brother who must be    
sent to college1 and1 with the true     
impulse of an affectionate sister1 she  
says1 ',oh1 brother ,jimmie1 get papa to
 send you to ,austin ,college1 or       
,mahan's ,commercial ,college2 and you  
can come to see me every ,saturday4'    
,therefore1 all the ,baptists and       
,methodists of ,sherman ought to        
encourage our enterprise to the extent  
of their financial ability4  ,mrs4 ,carr
 proceeds to point out how the building 
of her college will give employment to  
carpenters1 brick masons1 carters1 etc41
 how it will help fill the purses of the
 dealers in hardware and furniture1 and 
carpets1 and coal1 etc41 until most of  
the industries known to man are shown to
 be directly concerned4  ,what ,i have  

said has been chiefly from a financial  
standpoint1 she concludes1 but ,i know  
you love ,sherman for ,sherman's sake1  
and glory in her educational and        
religious progress4 ,i believe you have 
the gallant ,southern pride1 and the    
intensely earnest desire for the        
education of women1 to prompt at least  
one hundred and fifty of you to         
contribute to this enterprise at least  
#bjj each1 especially when you get in   
return a good-sized lot in one of the   
most beautiful suburbs of one of ,texas'
 most beautiful cities4  ,so the success
 of the enterprise is to depend1 it     
seems1 upon the sale of college-lots--an
 old story1 and usually1 a sad one6 ,we 
shall see how it succeeds in this       
instance4  ,in the meantime1 ,mrs4 ,a4  
,m4 ,laws1 wife of the ,president of    
,missouri ,university1 writes to ,mrs4  
,carr1 ,january #af1 #ahib3 ,i am glad  
you feel so much encouragement in your  
new enterprise4 ,if there is such a     
thing as a fire-proof building1 you     

ought to build fire-proof4 ,i suppose   
you have heard of the calamity that has 
befallen our ,university4 ,it is all in 
ruins4 ,last ,saturday night a fire     
destroyed the entire building with its  
contents4 ,only the museum specimens1   
and law library1 were saved1 and not all
 of that4 ,but already steps have been  
taken to rebuild and on a grander scale 
than before4 ,in the meantime the       
classes are meeting in various places1  
all over town4 ,all the portraits and   
statuary are gone to ashes4 ,mr4 ,laws' 
large oil portrait1 and two other crayon
 portraits of him in the society halls1 
and one of myself1 are destroyed4 ,we   
will be glad to hear of your success in 
the new enterprise4 ,mr4 ,laws joins me 
in love and best wishes for a new year4 
,at last1 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr comes back from 
holding meetings in ,kentucky1 and joins
 his wife at ,sherman4 ,mrs4 ,carr1 on  
,february #bnd1 writes to her           
,springfield friend1 ,mrs4 ,weaver3 ,i  
need not attempt to tell you how happy  

,i am to be with my husband once more4  
,he says it is almost like being married
 over4 ,nothing but the good work we are
 trying to accomplish could have        
persuaded me to stay away from him so   
long4 ,i have been hard at work all     
winter1 and have got the ,college       
enterprise into good shape1 and it bids 
fair to be a splendid success4 ,if we   
can only stem the tide of our financial 
troubles a year longer1 ,i think we     
shall be safe4 ,we think we can get the 
college in operation by ,september1     
#ahic4 ,if ,brother ,porterfield will   
keep our house until then1 or sell it   
for us1 or if we can get the ,omaha     
property off at half-cost price1 we will
 be safe4 ,i believe the ,lord will put 
it into the hearts of our friends to    
stand by us4 ,when the college is up1 we
 shall be able to return their kindness 
tenfold4 ,how happy we shall be1 when   
the college is built1 and we have you   
and our dear little ,tillie with us     
every winter6 ,pray without ceasing1    

dear ,sister ,weaver1 that the college  
may be built1 for we are so anxious to  
do a good work1 and we want to work     
together1 the remainder of our lives4   
,the ,reid case at ,omaha will retard   
the college enterprise1 for ,i will have
 to go there in ,april2 but we trust in 
the ,lord1 since the work we are doing  
is for ,his ,cause1 and we believe ,he  
will give us success in ,his own good   
time4  ,we shall be hard pressed1 for we
 are borrowing money1 and indeed will be
 borrowing until the college is up1 but 
after that1 we hope to have plenty to   
live on and give to the ,lord4 ,mr4     
,carr and ,i have keenly felt our       
financial embarrassment1 but remember we
 have told no one but you just how great
 is that embarrassment2 keep it locked  
up in your own heart4 ,keep your health 
and strength for ,tillie4 ,she is the   
special charge ,god has given you4 ,keep
 your energy for her4 ,is she taking    
music lessons--or do you think she is   
still too young8 ,bless her heart6 how  

,i wish ,i could kiss her this minute6  
,tell ,brother ,capp to bring you each  
,homiletic ,review1 after he has read   
it4  ,about this time1 ,j4 ,w4          
,mc,garvey1 ,president of the ,bible    
,college of ,kentucky ,university1      
wrote3 ,it gives me great pleasure to   
learn that ,brother and ,sister ,carr   
have undertaken1 in connection with the 
brethren of ,sherman1 to establish a    
female college of high grade in that    
city4 ,their removal to ,texas will not 
only promote the educational interests  
of that ,state1--for which work1 ,sister
 ,carr has eminent qualifications and   
experience1--but it will add very       
materially to its evangelizing force4   
,brother ,carr has had a great deal of  
successful experience as an evangelist1 
and his skill in organizing churches for
 effective work is not inferior to his  
presentation of the ,gospel4 ,i wish    
them abundant success in their          
undertakings1 not for their own sakes   
merely1 but for the sake of the cause of

 truth4  ,mrs4 ,carr's reference to     
money stringency may be explained by the
 fact that the payment of college lots  
did not fall due until the college      
building was actually begun4 ,as our    
story advances1 the reader must imagine 
the hundreds of attempts to find buyers 
for the lots1 the hundreds of rebuffs1  
excuses1 refusals1 which cannot find    
place in this work1 lest it sink under  
melancholy monotony4  ,april #dth1 ,mrs4
 ,carr wrote from ,farmington1 ,texas1  
,i don't want to write to you1 ,i want  
to talk to you1 face to face4 ,tell     
little ,tillie to help you pray for our 
success in the college enterprise4      
,sherman takes #aej lots2 and if we can 
sell #ajj additional outside of         
,sherman2 the thing is a success4 ,may  
our ,heavenly ,father be with us1 and   
speed the work of our hearts4 ,if our   
,springfield property could be sold1 it 
would be such a help4 ,tell ,brother    
,capp if he can sell ten lots for us1 we
 will thoroughly educate one of his     

daughters1 board and all1 free of       
charge4 ,several preachers here1 and one
 in ,kentucky1 have undertaken this1 and
 ,i believe they will succeed4 ,if he   
will undertake this1 let me know at     
once1 and ,i will send him map of lots1 
picture of building1 and all necessary  
information4  ,to this letter ,mr4 ,carr
 adds a postscript3 ,we are in ,grayson 
,county1 in the interests of the        
college4 ,mattie has lain down to read1 
after we had a talk about you1 of the   
time which we hope will come1 when1 the 
college built1 we shall have a home1 and
 you and ,tillie with us in the ,sunny  
,south4 ,i had a visit from ,brother ,j4
 ,d4 ,mc,clure and his son-in-law from  
,iowa--where ,i had a vacation on       
leaving ,springfield4 ,i wish you could 
know these people4 ,they are the right  
kind4 ,he wrote before coming1 ',i shall
 be as proud to see you as if you were  
my own brother4' ,you may be sure ,i was
 proud to see these true men and to     
introduce them to ,mattie4 ,they are    

booked for five lots in the college     
enterprise4 ,remember our address is    
,sherman1 ,texas1 and letters will be   
forwarded us1 wherever we may be4  ,on  
,october #ajth1 the following from the  
,sherman ,soliciting ,committee to ,mrs4
 ,carr1 suggests some of her            
difficulties3 ,after a full discussion  
of the matter1 the ,soliciting          
,committee decides that it would be     
inopportune to try to sell the remainder
 of the ,college ,park lots4 ,it is     
thought best to defer this until after  
the ,november election2 and1 in fact1   
the opinion prevails among the majority 
of the ,committee that it would be      
better1 if possible1 for you to finish  
selling your #ajj lots1 return to       
,sherman1 report that you have carried  
out your part of the agreement1 and that
 if ,sherman does not come up to her    
part of the agreement1 that you will    
proceed to go elsewhere with the        
college4  ,mr4 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr1    
,january #ac1 #ahic3 ,what a surprise to

 receive your card announcing that you  
are in ,kansas ,city and will go to     
,springfield before returning to        
,sherman6 ,still it's all right1 if you 
can sell the lots4 ,i have had a fearful
 time1 ,i sold only three at            
,clarksville4 ,we will have to take off 
the names of ---- and ----1 who say they
 cannot take their lots6 ,all in all1 ,i
 have sold #ij lots4 ,dear me6 ,i have  
done my best1 and have lost a great deal
 of time--rain and mud4 ,i think we can 
close it up in about two weeks when you 
come4 ,sell all the lots you can1 but do
 not delay1 do not waste time4 ,i don't 
believe any lots could be sold in ,paris
 or ,bonham4 ,i tried faithfully4       
,joshua ,burdette1 son of ,geo4         
,burdette of ,clarksville1 ,texas1 lives
 at ,eufaula1 ,indian ,territory4 ,he is
 a member of the church and is making   
money2 you might sell him a lot4 ,tell  
those ,springfield preachers ,jimmie    
,pinkerton 7son of our old favorite     
professor and doctor7 and ,john ,hardin 

and ,tom ,capp1 ,i say for them to put  
their names on your list for a lot each4
  ,in short1 one thinks of little but   
lots1 these days2 one dreams of lots2   
one writes always1 speaks always1 of    
lots4 ,people must learn that these lots
 are for sale1 they must be persuaded   
that the purchase of them is for        
individual good1 for educational        
enlargement1 for the advancement of     
spiritual interests4 ,the ,carrs believe
 all this4 ,will others believe8        
,fortunately others are found to enter  
heartily into the project4#ah ,but1 as  
one might naturally expect1 there is    
great opposition1 which one always finds
 as the shadow to bright deeds4 ,it     
would seem that no light can shine in   
the world without casting the shadow of 
opposing forces upon the ground4 ,there 
are some who treat the ,carrs with rude 
incivility2 will buy no lots1 and will1 
if possible1 persuade others from       
buying4  ,on one occasion1 ,mrs4 ,carr  
was obliged to walk to the station from 

a distant farm-house--do you know those 
muddy ,texas roads in the ,black        
,lands8--because the farmer is opposed  
to buying the college lots2 he watches  
her grimly as she makes her way along   
the difficult road1 with no intention of
 offering his horses4 ,we have before us
 letters written to ,mrs4 ,carr by      
members of the church in good           
fellowship--men of recognized standing  
in their communities1 and who1 without  
doubt believe themselves to be excellent
 ,christians4 ,but alas6 these letters1 
in refusing to buy the college lots1 are
 not1 as it would appear1 the letters of
 gentlemen1 so we must pass them by4    
,these were in truth times of pressing  
need4 ,mrs4 ,carr often found it best to
 walk that she might save the expense of
 a cab4 ,the ,carrs had just suffered a 
loss of #ab1jjj in property at ,omaha4  
,often ,mr4 ,carr was obliged to go     
hungry in his expeditions of            
lot-selling1 and on his way to hold     
meetings4 ,there were taxes to be paid  

on vacant property1 interest to be found
 that borrowed money demanded1 while    
traveling expenses were necessarily     
large4  ,will you please tell me where  
,i can get a meal for twenty-five cents8
 ,mr4 ,carr inquired of a stranger in a 
town whither he had gone to lecture4    
,the man indicated a restaurant4 ,mr4   
,carr went away1 but soon returned to   
the stranger1 saying1  ,will you be so  
kind as to tell me where ,i could get   
the quarter8  ,yes1 was the glum        
response2 at the bank4  ,and1 said ,mr4 
,carr1 when referring to the incident1  
with a twinkle in his gray eye1 he      
wouldn't even promise to come to hear me
 lecture4  ,in the meantime ,mrs4 ,carr 
was also traveling1 in the prospects of 
her future college4 ,wherever she went1 
one writes1 she carried good cheer and a
 blessing to that home4 ,there she would
 give instruction1 impart advice1 there 
she would help with the sewing1 and1    
with pleasure1 would teach and care for 
the children4  ,but the thought that she

 should be thus financially embarrassed 
and placed in a dependent position1 was 
most distressing to ,mr4 ,carr4 ,yet    
there was no help for it1 until the lots
 should have been sold4 ,we do not dwell
 upon these days of heartache and       
suffering1 to inspire remorse in the    
breast of anyone who offered obstacles  
to the great enterprise4 ,we would1     
instead1 pay a tribute to those who gave
 a welcome2 who cheered up the way2 who1
 instead of doubting the outcome1 hoped 
for the best2 who1 instead of waiting   
for ultimate success1 helped in time of 
need4 ,it is he who smiles at his open  
door1 who joins his song to that of the 
singer along life's highroad1 and       
reaches out his hand to help1 and waves 
to the departing traveler his confidence
 of victory1--he it is1 who finds the   
world growing better4 ,for the world is 
always growing better for him who makes 
it better for others4 ,those who helped 
the ,carrs with friendship1 and with a  
participation in their college-plans1   

cannot be named in this book2 but we    
should like to think that those still   
living might read these lines1 and each 
take them to himself4  ,january #cj1    
#ahic1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr issued this 
typewritten manifesto to subscribers for
 lots3  ,when you purchased one of the  
,christian ,college lots1 we promised   
you that you would not be called on for 
the first payment before ,september1    
#ahib4 ,because of ,mrs4 ,carr's        
protracted suspension of the work1 on   
account of sickness1 the sale of lots   
has been1 of course1 retarded4 ,we shall
 be ready1 however1 for the distribution
 of lots by ,march #ast1 #ahic1 and     
write to you at this early date1 that   
you may have ample time to arrange for  
making at that date the ,,first         
,,payment 7#ajj74 ,please make your     
draft of #ajj payable to ,hon4 ,t4 ,j4  
,brown and ,judge ,h4 ,o4 ,head1        
,trustees1 ,sherman1 ,texas1 who will   
make you a deed to your lot4 ,if you    
desire to pay all cash1 and it will be  

best of course1 if you can1 send the    
draft for #bjj 7the full amount7 payable
 to the said ,trustees4 ,we shall begin 
the college building by the middle of   
next ,march1 and open the first session 
in ,september1 #ahic4  ,but if the      
reader supposes that all now glides     
smoothly forward1 let him read this of  
,may #bjth3 ,the distribution of the    
,christian ,college lots has been       
unavoidably postponed until the first of
 ,july next1 when it ,,will ,,positively
 ,,take ,,place in the court house in   
,sherman1 ,texas1 at #b o'clock p4 m4   
,o4 ,a4 ,,carr1                         
,m4 ,f4 ,,carr4  ,at last the ground is 
broken for the foundation of the college
 building1 and ,mrs4 ,carr proudly walks
 behind the plow1 and guides it in the  
making of one long furrow4 ,can you not 
see her marching thus1 grasping the     
handles with all her strength1 her eyes 
aglow with the realization that she is  
digging deeper than a foundation of     
stone8  ,o4 ,a4 ,bartholomew is called  

upon to undertake the construction of   
the building1 ,july #bgth4 ,he shows    
hesitation and remarks--while our heads 
nod mechanically1 ,ah1 how true6 ,i do  
not know what to say4 ,the churches for 
which ,i have made the completest plans1
 have found the most fault4 ,especially1
 if ,i did not charge them much6 ,and we
 who have never built churches1 yet feel
 like crying1 ,ah1 yes1 how true6  ,let 
us pass over the months of sleepless    
nights1 of anxious days4 ,there was one 
matter that brought great hindrance to  
the scheme4 ,it was currently reported  
that the college was merely a private   
enterprise of the ,carrs1 like any other
 private school2 and the ,carrs would   
reap all its advantages and profits3 and
 that the claim that it was deeded to   
the church was a specious pretense made 
in order to induce people to buy lots4  
,these charges were made1 not by the    
enemies of education and ,christianity1 
not by unfriendly denominations1 but by 
the members of the ,christian church2 in

 other words1 by the very body to whom  
the college was deeded1 to be theirs    
forever4  ,this accusation had its      
staunch adherents1 men who for years    
were ready to argue warmly1 if not      
dispassionately1 in its support4 ,the   
fact that it could have been disproved  
by simply glancing at the records1 seems
 to have lessened none of its force4 ,it
 wrought much delay in selling the lots1
 and1 after the college was built1 it   
served to lessen the attendance4        
,carr-,burdette ,college was1 indeed1 a 
free and loving gift1--given1 one might 
almost say1 in spite of the reluctance  
of the beneficiary1 and held in his     
possession while he disclaimed its      
ownership4  ,it is not our wish to      
lessen the patient helpfulness of many  
of the members of the church4 ,had the  
,carrs worked themselves to death they  
could not have disposed of the lots1 had
 not people been found to buy them4     
,people there were found1 as we have    
seen1 who co-operated with the ,carrs to

 the extent of their ability1 and many  
of these were among the most illustrious
 of the ,texan brotherhood4 ,but for    
years1 one might find at a general      
convention1 the spirit of suspicion and 
hostility to ,carr-,burdette            
,college--as ,christian ,college was    
finally named1 and1 at important        
committee meetings1 it would be plainly 
declared that the college was a private 
enterprise and did not belong to the    
church4  ,but we will never get our     
college up at this rate4 ,let us pass on
 to the winter of #ahic1 which takes ,o4
 ,a4 ,carr once more to ,kentucky4 ,who 
would ever have thought that the        
,kentucky boy of ,may's ,lick1 chalking 
his problems on his father's barn-door1 
would1 at a later day1 be going up and  
down his native ,state1 selling college 
lots1 and looking out for prospective   
pupils of his own8 ,these pupils are for
 next year4 ,the day for laying the     
corner-stone of the college1 is to dawn 
while ,mr4 ,carr is far away from       

,sherman4  ,on ,december #bfth1 ,mrs4   
,carr writes to him3 ,i hope you will   
have a happy time with your kindred4 ,i 
am very lonely without you2 but it must 
be thus1 until those twenty lots are    
sold4 ,necessity is a stern tyrant4 ,but
 we have borne thus far1 and we can bear
 a little longer4 ,how happy we'll be1  
when we can be at home together all the 
time6 ,the corner-stone will be laid    
,new ,year's ,day at #c p4 m4 ,i am     
dispatching you tonight to have your    
message in your own hand writing1 to be 
read on the occasion1 and it will be    
deposited in the bowl of the            
corner-stone4 ,it is too bad you can't  
be here4 ,this sacrifice should make a  
heart-appealing chapter in my book4     
,have your speech here without fail1 in 
your own hand writing4 ,your message in 
your letter to me is beautiful1 and     
,i'll read that if necessary1 but there 
are other things in that letter ,i don't
 want to go into the corner-stone4      
,suppose you send a dispatch1 for fear  

your speech will not come in time4 ,do  
this at once4 ,i send this to           
,maysville1 and a copy to ,carmel4 ,a   
merry ,christmas to all6 ,how ,i wish ,i
 were with you6  ,as to the book        
referred to1 that1 of course1 is the    
,history of ,carr-,burdette ,college2   
the book which ,mrs4 ,carr intends to   
write--after the college is built1 of   
course2 a book which will tell of almost
 superhuman struggles1 of cruel         
sacrifices and1 thank ,god6 of words of 
love and cheer1 and of final peace in   
our home1 where we shall live together4 
,but the book was never written4 ,here  
and there among groups of old letters we
 find a document superscribed           
,important1 or1 ,for the ,book--and we  
know ,mrs4 ,carr wrote that1 with her   
mind upon some future day1 when she     
would have time--time in her old age1   
the heat of battle dying away1 and the  
calm of memory softening the past--a    
time that never came1 else this book    
would have had no being4  ,january #aj1 

#ahid1 ,mr4 ,carr to ,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i go 
to hold a meeting at ,vanceburg1        
,kentucky4 ,i am sorry ,i could not be  
at ,sherman when the corner-stone was   
laid4 ,of course1 it was laid right side
 up1 with care2 and as my wife is to see
 to it1 ,i'm sure it will be well done4 
,but it is too bad that ,i have to be   
away1 causing you to work yourself down1
 and get sick4 ,i am devoutly thankful  
to ,sister ,hildebrand for her care of  
you4 ,tell her she shall have her       
reward1 by and by6 ,i suppose the       
corner-stone was laid on the #gth--     
sickness having made ,new ,year's ,day  
impossible4 ,i do hope you will excuse  
me for not sending a message worthy of  
the occasion4 ,i wonder what you did    
with my poetry8 ,if you planted it in   
the rock1 ,i will have to get up        
something else for your ,book4 ,look    
here6 ,what did you think of that       
poetry8 ,perhaps there has been another 
delay of corner-stone                   
ceremonies1--pshaw6 if ,i could get into

 the spirit of it1 ,i could write       
something1 but ,i am so unsettled and so
 put out from not doing anything1 that  
,i can scarcely write a letter1 to say  
nothing of writing what is to be left as
 a monument6  ,the following1 from ,mr4 
,carr1 ,january #bdth1 is a fitting     
trumpet-note with which to close the    
discords and harmonies of the           
college-overture3 ,i received a paper   
to-day--,picture of college is fine4    
,hurrah6 ,your address is grand--,just  
the thing6 ,you are doing fine work4    
#ah ,their names are in those ,envelopes
 at the ,college inscribed for my book  
and ,mrs4 ,carr intended to honor them  
thus2 memory of them and incidents she  
often recalled2 and she praised them    
always4     ,,chapter ,,xviii4   ,that  
was1 without a doubt1 the proudest day  
in ,mrs4 ,carr's life when she faced the
 expectant multitude1 on the day of the 
corner-stone ceremonies1 and told in    
simple words1 the story of her striving 
and achievement4 ,it was1 in truth1 the 

day most significant in her history4    
,she could cast her eyes over that      
plowed field1 and in fancy see rising   
before her1 the outlines of the college 
which she had designed as her monument4 
,the money was all raised2 never was    
,carr-,burdette to rest under the shadow
 of mortgage1 or suspend payments4      
,fresh in the minds of her audience were
 many instances of plans for the selling
 of lots to erect college               
buildings1--plans that had resulted in  
forced sales1 spasmodic flickerings of  
uncertain life1 and humiliating defeat4 
,she and her husband had accomplished   
what well-organized boards and          
influential committees with fleet       
financial agents1 had not been able to  
consummate4 ,they had accomplished this1
 not because ,texas felt a great        
educational want1--a vacuum in the      
intellectual thermometer1--but in spite 
of the fact that many ,texans believed  
they had schools a-plenty4 ,this they   
had accomplished1 although misunderstood

 and misrepresented by different        
factions2 although it was persistently  
denied that the property belonged to the
 church2 and although the ,state papers1
 on more than one occasion1 refused to  
print an advertisement of the           
enterprise4  ,mrs4 ,carr did not        
rehearse these difficulties1 save in    
general and mild terms4 ,a record of her
 sad experiences was placed by her own  
hand in the dark recess of the          
corner-stone2 but we1 who are unable to 
hide our record in so sacred a          
receptacle1 must be content to lay it   
before the public eye1 with all         
good-will1 and1 we trust1 all fairness4 
,in her address1 that ,january day of   
#ahid1 ,mrs4 ,carr said3  ,to sell #bej 
lots at #bjj each and to collect the    
money1 was the work to be accomplished  
in order to secure the college--a work  
that demanded enormous courage and      
indomitable will power and persistence4 
,we struck out the word fail1 and all   
its derivatives from our vocabulary1 and

 addressed ourselves to the task4 ,we   
traveled in five different ,states2 and1
 amid the distraction of the most       
intense political excitement and under  
the pressure of the severest financial  
crisis the country has ever experienced 
since #ahgc1 we completed the sale of   
the lots after nearly two long years of 
labor1 worry and anxiety inexpressible4 
,the way has been long and hard1 but you
 have been kind to us and ,god has been 
with us4 ,the corner-stone of our       
life-work is laid to-day2 we behold the 
consummation of our heart's desire1 and 
we feel generous towards all and        
profoundly grateful to our ,heavenly    
,father for the many and devoted friends
 that ,he has given us to cheer us by   
their kind words and deeds when our     
burden seemed ofttimes greater than we  
could bear4 ,the sacrifice that we have 
made and the trials and humiliations    
that we have endured are too sacred to  
be told1 even in this paper that shall  
be hid in the silence and darkness of   

the corner-stone1 whose peace the       
cyclonic onrush of the ,twentieth       
,century may never disturb4 ,they are   
known only to our own hearts and to     
,god4 ,but we count them all joy and    
would endure tenfold more if need be1   
because we believe that for the         
,christian girls who shall be educated  
here from generation to generation there
 shall work out a far more exceeding and
 eternal weight of glory4 ,we are       
building1 not for ourselves1 but for    
coming generations of girls4 ,this      
thought has been from the beginning our 
inspiration and our strength2 and it is 
useless to say that to donate this      
college to the ,church of ,christ in    
,texas for the education of the         
daughters of the ,south is the supremest
 happiness of our united lives4 ,it is  
the child of our adoption1 and to its   
interests we consecrate the best        
energies of our remaining years4 ,of all
 the glad ,new ,years this is to me the 
gladdest4 ,the only thing that disturbs 

the fitness and happiness of the hour is
 the unavoidable absence in ,kentucky of
 my husband1 who has labored so long and
 so faithfully under circumstances the  
most painful to humor his wife 7as he   
expresses it7 in helping her to bring to
 a successful issue the pet scheme of   
her life4 ,but a gladder time is yet    
before us--the ,jubilee ,opening next   
,september1 #ahid1 of the completed     
college--when it shall be lighted by the
 faces of happy girls1 and when ,mr4    
,carr will participate in person as well
 as in spirit1 and nothing will be      
lacking to perfect our joy in the       
crowning work of our lives4 ,and best of
 all1 the years of blessed work that    
shall follow6 ,oh1 ,i pray that our     
,heavenly ,father may give us health and
 strength1 and length of days1 and that 
the fruits of our labors may be         
abundant2 so    ',that when our summons 
comes to join   ,the innumerable caravan
 that moves   ,to that mysterious realm 
where each shall take   ,his chamber in 

the silent halls of death1   ,we go1 not
 like the quarry-slave at night1        
,scourged to his dungeon2 but1 sustained
 and soothed   ,by an unfaltering trust1
 approach our grave   ,like one who     
wraps the drapery of his couch   ,about 
him and lies down to pleasant dreams4'  
,but was the work now ended8 ,it was    
only about to begin2 all else had been  
preparation4 ,but how different to work 
in uncertainty1 and to work in          
confidence6  ,there were the catalogues 
to be thought of1 and notices in the    
papers to be judiciously given out1 and 
furniture to be bought1 and trees1 and  
shrubbery1 and pianos1 and charts1 and  
all things else needful to college life4
 ,above all1 there is the building      
itself to be erected4  ,and1 of course1 
many who have subscribed for lots do not
 want to pay for them1 when paytime     
comes due1--and are indignant at being  
held to their bond1 and say bitter      
things1 and spread unkind rumors4 ,and  
some have to be excused from paying     

interest1 else they will pay nothing2   
and some move away1 one knows not       
whither6  ,mrs4 ,o4 ,a4 ,carr is in the 
city1 says a daily paper4               
,carr-,burdette ,christian ,college at  
,sherman will open in ,september4 ,the  
college has been donated to the         
,christian churches in the ,state1 but  
will be open to all denominations4 ,mr4 
and ,mrs4 ,carr are doing much for the  
educational interests of ,texas1 and    
their philanthropic devotion to this    
interest sets an example which we hope  
will be emulated4  ,illustration3 ,the  
,college is ,built at                   
,last4--,carr-,burdette4  ,mrs4 ,carr   
clips the foregoing and sends it to the 
,gospel ,advocate1 hoping they will     
reproduce all1 or a part1 of the local4 
,my dear ,sister1 says the ,gospel      
,advocate--it is in ,august of the      
corner-stone year1 it is our settled    
policy not to advertise one school more 
than another4 ,we do not see any reason 
why we should advertise the             

,carr-,burdette ,college any more than  
the ,add ,rann ,college4 ,there are a   
number of good schools controlled by the
 brethren1 to whom we have never given  
free advertisement4 ,yours truly and    
fraternally-- ,very fraternally1 without
 doubt4 ,so ,mrs4 ,carr may be in our   
city as often as she pleases1 and she   
and her husband do all they can1 for a  
dozen colleges1 but we mustn't mention  
the fact2 such is our policy6  ,john ,a4
 ,brooks1 pastor of the ,christian      
church at ,memphis1 writes to ,mr4 and  
,mrs4 ,carr3 ,i am pleased to see that  
you are about to open a female school in
 ,sherman4 ,i know your education and   
character are such as to commend you to 
the public as most competent teachers4  
,most heartily ,i wish you both a       
successful voyage on the sea of life4   
,this from ,palestine1 ,texas1 ,july    
#acth1 to ,mrs4 ,carr1 is a voice from  
the camp of misconception3 ,i have read 
your letter with much interest4 ,i      
accord to you the purest and best       

motives in your work1 and believe you to
 be a noble woman4 ,but it is reported1 
on good authority1 that you and ,brother
 ,carr are not in sympathy with our work
 in ,texas1 the ,united ,states and     
abroad4 ,i shall not enter the lists    
against you and your work1 however--,i  
shall attend to my own business1 which  
will keep me busy enough 99 99 99       
,fraternally yours--  ,that word        
,fraternally1 which we find closing so  
many bitter and discourteous letters1   
seems to be used as a parting blow4     
,they all write ,fraternally--that      
stereotyped phrase of a stereotyped     
brotherhood6 ,but the present biographer
 feels indeed fraternally toward these  
indignant and suspicious and mistaken   
letter-writers1 and shall prove it by   
reproducing none of their letters4  ,for
 these writers who were so warmly       
fraternal did not understand1 and       
seemingly would not understand1 that the
 ,carrs had deeded the college and the  
extensive grounds to the ,church2 that  

the ,carrs furnished the buildings      
throughout1 at their own expense1 to    
present them to the ,church fully and   
beautifully equipped2 that the ,carrs   
had insured1 and would keep insured1 the
 buildings1 not for themselves1 but for 
the ,church2 that they did not1 and     
never would1 receive a penny of         
money-contributions from anyone2 and    
that this ,carr-,burdette ,college1 this
 monument to ,mrs4 ,carr1 was given to  
the ,church as the most priceless gift  
in her possession1 to the cause dearest 
to her heart4  ,in the meantime1        
college-work did not wholly absorb the  
life of this busy woman4 ,here comes a  
letter from the ,christian ,woman's     
,board of ,missions in ,missouri2 the   
state-secretary1 at this time1 is ,mrs4 
,elizabeth ,bantz4 ,mrs4 ,bantz writes3 
,this year marks the twenty-fifth year  
of the ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 in               
,missouri--#ahid4 ,my board has         
authorized me to issue an historical    
sketch of the work4 ,we are publishing  

the faces of many of those who served us
 officially4 ,we want your picture for  
this book4 ,please1 my dear sister1 send
 me a half-tone cut1 as soon as         
possible4  ,mrs4 ,a4 ,b4 ,jones of      
,liberty1 ,mo41 seconds the request3 ,i 
have been asked to write an historical  
sketch of our ,c4 ,w4 ,b4 ,m4 for a book
 which our state secretary is preparing 
for our #beth anniversary4 ,we want our 
state officers from the time of our     
organization4 ,will you kindly send a   
photo1 or cut1 to ,mrs4 ,bantz at ,st4  
,louis8 ,i would be so glad to have a   
picture of yourself and ,brother ,carr4 
,both of you are lovingly remembered by 
us4  ,now that the college is built at  
last1 and ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,carr have     
assumed its management1 the story of    
their lives enters the peaceful channel 
of daily service together4  ,a few      
events of distinction stand out from    
among the minor affairs of fourteen     
years4 ,the incessant work in the school
 room1 the canvassing tours during      

vacations1--involving lectures with the 
stereopticon1--the correspondence with  
new pupils1 old pupils and prospective  
pupils1 the worrying over               
misunderstandings and                   
misrepresentations2 the struggle against
 prejudice1 and jealousy2 the sweet     
companionship with each other1 and with 
congenial friends--all this is the story
 of daily living1 that does not belong  
to the world of books4  ,let the reader 
imagine the interlinked events of these 
fourteen years--the fourteen years that 
followed the accomplishment of ,mrs4    
,carr's life-work4 ,the honors bestowed 
upon her and her girls at the           
,confederate ,reunion at ,new ,orleans1 
and at the ,world's ,fair at ,st4       
,louis1 may be found fully described in 
the great daily papers of those days4   
,the mass of printed programs that lie  
before me tell of brilliant success     
before the footlights--and hint at long 
hours of nerve-racking rehearsals4 ,and 
here are confessions of school-girls who

 have done wrong1 and who ask to be     
forgiven2 and other letters which wound 
cruelly and do not ask for pardon4 ,but 
shall we not forgive all8 ,and how can  
we forgive1 if we do not forget8  ,upon 
my table lies documents from disobedient
 pupils of ,carr-,burdette ,college1    
ungrateful pupils1 narrow-minded pupils1
 and parents naturally championing the  
cause of their daughters--in which1 all 
these stand self-accused4 ,here is one  
who has discovered how unjust were      
charges she had made against the        
,carrs--but not until she had spread    
those reports to willing ears4 ,and here
 is one who asks with tears that she may
 be forgiven2 but who laments that the  
harm she has done can never be overcome4
  ,but what of it all1 now6 ,i should   
not mention these things if it were not 
for this3 that the evil reports live in 
some minds and1 no doubt1 are handed    
down to strangers4 ,here are the        
refutations to several such reports1 but
 we push them aside4 ,can falsehood     

wound beyond the grave8  ,nor would we  
expose anyone to shame by bringing her  
name upon the printed page1 with        
quotations of her own rash words4 ,there
 is no punishment for a malicious nature
 so terrible as the vengeance of its own
 malice which reacts upon itself1       
dwarfing1 embittering1 deadening the    
higher capabilities of the soul that    
harbors it4 ,he who took the snake to   
his warm hearth to nourish it to life1  
is not he who suffers from the          
ingratitude of a friend1 but rather he  
who admits hate to warm it in his own   
bosom2 for it wounds him1 first of all4 
,fourteen years of labor in the work    
,mrs4 ,carr loved best1 amid            
surroundings best adapted to call forth 
one's greatest capabilities1 and        
then--the last journey4 ,the school year
 of #aijg-h had opened prosperously4    
,september passed1 and in the warmth of 
its haze1 and in the tender blue of its 
,texan sky1 there was no hint that its  
sister-month would bring the chill of   

death4  ,it was on the thirty-first of  
,october that there came the summons of 
which she had spoken in her dedicatory  
speech4 ,not1 indeed1 as a quarry slave1
 scourged to his dungeon1 did she go to 
meet that call1 but rather as one who   
had followed her ,lord across the seas1 
who had dwelt with him in many lands1   
and who was now to abide with ,him      
forever4  ,he who was left behind1      
dwells in the lofty halls her wisdom and
 her love fashioned out of brick and    
stone4 ,the great work of her life is   
continued by ,president ,o4 ,a4 ,carr1  
and when one visits that ,college       
,beautiful1 that ,college ,home1        
tapestries and statuary1 pictures and   
mosaics1 engravings and flowers--all    
seem instinct with the presence of ,mrs4
 ,carr4  ,one passes through spacious   
reception-rooms and ample halls1 into   
parlors of refined and exquisite        
workmanship4 ,yonder is the winding     
stairway1 with its ,cosy ,nook behind   
the ferns4 ,here is the library with its

 cheerful hearth4 ,nothing is to be seen
 to suggest ,latin and ,geometry6 ,it   
is1 first of all1 a home for young      
ladies4  ,but when we are shown the     
mystic way that leads to schoolrooms1 we
 find them stript1 as it were1 for      
service4 ,here is little or no          
adornment4 ,they are placed before us in
 stern reality--desk and blackboard and 
floor--with no pretense that knowledge  
walks on velvet carpets4 ,in this wing1 
we find ourselves indeed in a school2   
and we feel instinctively that if we do 
not immediately fall to1 at some        
difficult textbook1 we have no business 
here1 and should be sent home to our    
parents4  ,and that is just what ,mrs4  
,carr would have done for us4 ,education
 had always for her1 meant something    
serious1 something life-long1 something 
to become an integral part of one's     
character4 ,first1 ,carr-,burdette      
,college is to be a home in which young 
ladies are to be taught conduct and     
hygiene2 but it is a ,college ,home1    

where study is not play1 any more than  
play is study4 ,we cannot determine     
where we feel ,mrs4 ,carr's influence   
stronger--whether in these unadorned    
schoolrooms1 or in the luxurious        
parlors4 ,taken together1 they typify   
the extremes of her character4 ,she     
sought to build in every soul that came 
under her moulding touch1 the firm      
foundation of eternal truth2 and upon   
this foundation to erect a structure    
traced with all the beauty of eternal   
love4  ,illustration3 ,he ,who was ,left
 ,behind4   ,,the ,,end     ,,appendix4 
,by ,o4 ,a4 ,carr4   7,page #ca47  ,our 
mother made our clothes from the same   
piece1 which1 for many years1 was her   
own weaving2 and our resemblance was    
such in childhood that many thought we  
were twins4 ,for sixteen years we were  
together day and night--in the field1 in
 the school-room1 in the home4 ,bud and 
,ol41 our familiar names1 were          
pronounced together1 and the presence of
 one suggested the other4 ,our          

separation came when ,i said good-by to 
go to ,kentucky ,university1 and then to
 the other side of the earth4 ,i can    
even now recall my feelings when ,i     
would go into ,fitzroy ,gardens1        
,melbourne1 ,australia1 where1 alone1 ,i
 would read ,owen's letters over and    
over4 ,though himself not a preacher1 he
 came as near as any one ,i ever knew to
 an identification of his life with the 
lives of those who preach the word4     
,after my return from ,australia it was 
our happiness to go together to a church
 composed of many whom ,i baptized when 
,i began preaching forty-five years ago1
 some of them our relatives4 ,the       
building was within a mile of where we  
were born1 and near the site of the     
first school-house we ever entered4     
,there were the boys and girls with whom
 we played in childhood1 heads of       
families now4 ,such an audience was an  
inspiration to me1 and especially the   
presence of ,bud4 ,i ever felt that ,i  
could preach better when he was hearing4

 ,we went over the familiar roads       
planning a meeting to be held when the  
weather would permit1 and ,i thought    
this happiness would be mine1 but alas6 
there came the telegram3 ,bud is very   
sick1 come at once4 ,we all came to him1
 except one brother who was far away4   
,there were the chairs my mother used1  
my father's desk1 the little chair in   
which ,i sat in earliest childhood1 and 
the pictures on the wall of those whom  
my brother loved4 ,there1 amid all to   
remind me of early days1 ,i took my seat
 beside him with the sad duty on me to  
report to the physician his pulse and   
fever day and night4 ,what was revealed 
by his tearful eyes fixed upon us can   
never be put in a book2 but when the    
physician told him he must die1 he      
simply said ,i am ready4  ,with the     
exception of a short sojourn in         
,missouri and ,illinois ,owen spent his 
life in ,kentucky1 at ,may's ,lick1 also
 at ,lexington1 ,maysville and ,mt4     
,carmel4 ,the call for a young man who  

neither blasphemed nor drank secured for
 him his first business engagement at   
,lexington4 ,he was engaged in          
,maysville many years1 and he spent his 
earnings in helping our afflicted       
parents2 and from the needy he never    
turned away4 ,after the death of father 
and mother1 ,owen made his home with his
 sister1 ,mary ,e4 ,goddard1 near ,mt4  
,carmel1 whence he was called to go up  
higher1 ,thursday1 ,january #ad1 #aijb4 
,owen ,carr was a ,christian4 ,his life 
was very quiet1 but useful4 ,his faith  
was simple1 his convictions were strong 
and he was true to them4 ,to maintain   
what he held to be truth ,i believe he  
would have laid down his life4 ,yes1 he 
did this in effect1 toiling for the good
 of others1 bearing heavy burdens of    
suffering1 fulfilling his mission to the
 family1 in the community1 in the       
church4 ,how can ,i speak his praise8   
,does he know1 now1 how we all loved    
him8 ,no words could ever tell it4  ,a  
companion wrote3 ,though our association

 was not long at any one time1 yet he   
was so transparent and companionable    
that in a short time ,i knew ,owen ,carr
 well4 ,he was one of the few men in the
 world that ,i really loved ardently2   
and ,i have his obituary on the         
',treasure page' of my little scrap     
book4 ,he was the divinest and sweetest 
impersonation of unostentatious         
unselfishness and of transparent honesty
 and integrity that ,i ever knew among  
men4                                    
,j4 ,h4 ,m4   ,,in ,,memory ,,of ,,the  
,,noble4  7,page #df47  ,not of the     
blood1 though they were ,englishmen3 nor
 of the will of the flesh nor of the    
will of man1 and yet the ,myalls1       
,eneas1 ,jonas1 ,george and ,edward1    
stand in memory as ,,noble ,,men4 ,in   
the days of their activity1 their motto 
seemed to be3 ,we will do more than any 
others4 ,of these four men two--,jonas  
at ,may's ,lick1 and ,edward1 at        
,maysville1 ,kentucky--still live1 and  
they are my witnesses4 ,eneas and ,jonas

 ,myall were blacksmiths2 and they shod 
one hundred mules in a day1 at a time   
when mules were driven overland to      
market6 ,energy1 perseverance1          
generosity characterized these men--each
 in his own way4--,remembrance of them  
has been with me and has been presented 
to the young men in many lands and on   
both sides of the earth4  ,of ,eneas    
,myall ,longfellow's words in ,,the     
,,village ,,blacksmith are true in      
almost every line4  ,if money was to be 
raised for benevolent purposes ,eneas   
,myall was the one to secure it2 for he 
headed the list with a liberal offering1
 and while others did the talking1 he   
did the work4 ,he was more eloquent in  
deed than they were in speech3 hence    
,may's ,lick church was in the lead of  
all churches in that part of the country
 in expenditures at home and abroad4 ,as
 a deacon in the church he was well nigh
 perfection4 ,i have never seen a       
better4  ,his constancy made him great  
in usefulness4 ,for more than sixty     

years he led the songs in the ,may's    
,lick church4 ,for a period of twenty   
years he was never known to be absent   
from the meeting on ,lord's day morning 
and night and the ,wednesday night      
prayer meeting except on one occasion1  
when he went to ,paris to see his sick  
brother4 ,his best singing was done1 as 
it seems1 on occasions when the boy1 his
 protege1 was in the pulpit4 ,such      
singing is seldom heard now-a-days as   
was heard when these men1 ,ed41 ,george1
 ,jonas and ,eneas ,myall sang together 
with ,eneas to lead4 ,there was only one
 occasion1 as ,i remember1 when ,eneas  
,myall could not sing1 and that was the 
morning when my father came forward to  
confess his faith in ,jesus4 ,he wept   
for joy2 but could not talk--could not  
sing4 ,the circumstances seemed to me to
 magnify his sincerity2 for it was just 
at the close of the war4 ,eneas ,myall  
was of strong prejudice1 and he was     
opposed to my father politically1 but   
the welcome he extended seemed to say3  

we differ out yonder in the world where 
political troubles are1 and war rages2  
but here1 in the church1 there is peace1
 and we have fellowship4 ,when ,i took  
my father down into the water to bury   
him with ,christ in baptism1 ,eneas     
,myall had recovered himself so as to   
sing3                ,how happy are     
they1 who their ,savior obey4  ,it is   
not strange that a man possessed of such
 firmness1 such perseverance and such   
energy should become wealthy4 ,his      
earnings increased3 ,he sowed with an   
unsparing hand1 and he reaped           
bountifully4 ,wealth did not make him   
proud nor dry up the fountain of his    
generosity4 ,he seemed never so happy as
 when he was dividing what he possessed 
with his friends4 ,when he and his good 
wife1 aunt ,sallie would spread the     
banquet1 and he would gather all the    
preachers he could find and those who   
loved such company to his house1 and    
around the table where he presided1 what
 a feast for body and soul was there6   

,what preacher who has ever been at     
,may's ,lick does not remember ,eneas   
,myall and his family8 ,he has gone2 and
 shall we ever see his like again8      
,before him across the silent river had 
passed his faithful wife and the elders 
of the ,may's ,lick church1 as nearly   
models1 as mortals could be expected to 
be1 of what the ,scriptures say of      
bishops1 elders1 pastors4 ,what a church
 that was6 over which ,aaron ,mitchell1 
,waller ,small and ,benjamin ,james     
presided1 and taught by precept and     
example and led and protected1 in those 
days when ,walter ,scott did the        
preaching and ,eneas ,myall led in song6
   ,,my ,,sheep4  7,page #bgb47  ,a     
sheep can never become a goat6 ,true of 
the woolly quadruped but this fact is no
 reply to my sermon2 for the ,savior was
 not talking about animals4 ,he meant   
people when he said ,my sheep hear my   
voice and follow me4 ,that is what sheep
 7animals7 do2 hence people who hear his
 voice and follow him he calls his      

sheep2 and says they shall never perish4
 ,who8 ,his sheep2 that is1 people who  
hear his voice and follow him4 ,if they 
should cease to hear his voice and      
follow they would cease to be his sheep 
and the ,savior did not say of such1    
they shall never perish4  ,but were they
 his sheep before they heard his voice4 
,they might have been called sheep on   
account of some other resemblance1 such 
as proneness to wander away1 need of    
guidance1 of protection2 but for these  
reasons it would not be true of them    
that they shall never perish4 ,it is    
certain that they would perish2 hence   
the ,great ,good ,shepherd came and     
called them home1 saved and protected   
them4  ,if you say they were his sheep  
because he died for them--laid down his 
life for the sheep1 ,i answer3 ,he      
called them his sheep before he laid    
down his life for them2 and when he died
 it was not for them alone but he died  
for all4  ,the truth is that the        
characteristic of sheep1 to hear and    

follow1 is possessed by all mankind2 and
 whose sheep they are depends upon whose
 voice they hear and whom they follow4  
,they are not the ,savior's sheep unless
 they hear ,,his voice and follow ,,him4
 ,when persons do turn away from other  
voices and give heed to ,,his they      
become ,,his sheep4 ,would you say1 this
 is not true1 and give as a reason1 a   
,,goat can never become a ,,sheep8 ,as  
well say this as to say a sheep can     
never become a goat as a proof that a   
believer may not1 can not1 cease to be a
 believer4  ,the one expression is fate 
fixed as fatally as is the other2 and   
neither of them contains any ,scripture 
idea4         99       99       99      
99       99  ,the ,,trial was unique4   
,the purpose was to determine whether ,i
 should be permitted to use their       
baptistry2 and this depended on whether 
,i was sound on what they called the    
design of the ordinance4 ,there were the
 officers of the ,baptist ,church to    
hear and a lawyer to ask questions4 ,he 

put them in such a way that each        
question could be answered by simply    
quoting the ,scripture2 and that was    
happy2 it was right1 too1 whether he    
intended it or not3 ,what do you believe
 baptism is for--what purpose has it8   
,answer4 ,repent and be baptized--in the
 name of ,jesus the ,christ ,,for the   
remission of sins1 and you shall receive
 the gift of the ,holy ,spirit4 ,acts   
#b3ch4  ,do you regard it as a saving   
ordinance8 ,answer--,he that believeth  
and is baptized shall be saved4 ,mark   
#af3ae-af4  ,yes1 we believe that3 of   
course1 we believe the ,scriptures1 but 
what do ,,you ,,think8 ,do you think a  
person cannot be saved without baptism8 
,answer--,i think just what the ,savior 
says3 ',he that believeth and is        
baptized shall be saved4' ,it is not my 
privilege to ,,think anything except    
what the ,savior said1 and what his     
,apostles preached and practiced4 ,aside
 from this ,i have no ability to think2 
for ,i have nothing to think about4     

,well1 our ,savior says3 'he that       
believeth not shall be damned' and he   
does not say he that believeth not and  
is not baptized shall be damned4 ,does  
not this show that baptism is not       
necessary to salvation1 that it is not a
 saving ordinance8 ,answer--,baptism is 
not named in that clause1 hence1 we     
cannot think what that clause says and  
have baptism in mind at all2 since it is
 not there4 ,the way to be saved1 ,jesus
 says1 is3 'he that believeth and is    
baptized shall be saved2' but the way to
 be damned1 he says1 is1 'he that       
believeth not shall be damned4' ,i think
 just what the ,savior says on the      
subject of ,,damnation2 and ,i think    
just what he says on the subject of     
,,salvation4  ,then ,brother ,jones1 a  
,baptist1 addressed the meeting in      
substance thus3 ,brethren1 ,i have heard
 every sermon our young brother has     
preached in ,hobart1 and ,i have found  
no fault with it4 ,he says just what the
 ,scriptures say1 and surely you cannot 

refuse that4 ,you heard the sermon on1  
',what must ,i do to be saved'8 ,then   
,brother ,jones gave an outline of that 
sermon--the first ,i had ever heard that
 ,i understood--heard it from ,w4 ,t4   
,moore at ,may's ,lick1 ,ky41 and from  
him ,i learned how to preach it4        
,thereupon a good man of the company of 
,baptists arose and said3 ,i would      
rather give up my life than countenance 
,,free-,,grace preaching4 ,i did not    
want him to give up his life1 and so the
 interview ended with my resolution not 
to use the baptistry2 ,i would use the  
public baths instead4   ,,mrs4 ,,carr   
,,and ,a ,,little ,,boy--,,thirty-,,five
 ,,years ,,ago4  7,page #aih47  ,a      
letter to be read between the lines4    
,melbourne1 ,australia1 ,september #e1  
#aiji4  ,,dear ,,brother ,,carr3        
,father wishes me to express to you how 
very sorry he was to hear of ,mrs4      
,carr's death1 and how deeply he was    
moved by the touching references to and 
description of her beautiful life and   

character4 ,she1 indeed1 was a wonderful
 woman1 and must be sorely missed by    
many4 ,it must be a terrible blank in   
your home and we deeply feel for you4   
,father felt it very much and very often
 spoke of her4 ,indeed1 ,i felt it too4 
,my mind goes back to my school days    
when my sister1 ,eliza 7now gone many   
years7 and ,i attended ,mrs4 ,carr's    
school in ,melbourne4 ,i was then but a 
little fellow--about eleven years of    
age--7,i am now forty-five and have     
three children47 ,it was a school for   
young ladies1 but four of us boys were  
allowed to go--,george ,thomson1 ,willie
 ,robinson1 ,willie ,church and         
myself--and many a heart ache1 ,i think1
 we boys gave ,mrs4 ,carr4 ,i can       
remember that ,mrs4 ,carr put me in a   
room by myself for fighting ,willie     
,church4 ,i was in terrible disgrace    
that day2 and ,i remember you came into 
the room and asked me what ,i had been  
doing4 ,i told you ,i had been fighting 
,willie ,church2 for which you gave me  

to understand how naughty it was to     
fight4 ,then1 ,i think1 you were sorry  
for me1 and said3 ',never mind ,nat41 we
 will have some fun1' which we did2 and 
in the midst of it all ,mrs4 ,carr came 
in and we both got in for it4 ,the poor 
dear lady was doing what she thought    
best for me1 and instead of punishment  
,i was having a good time1 with you4    
,however1 she was always very1 very     
kind4 ,i do not know that during my     
young life anyone so impressed me as the
 dear soul that has gone from us all2   
and ,i see by the book you sent us that 
,i am not alone in this respect4  ,the  
,church at ,lygon ,street is still to   
the fore4 ,what delight it would give us
 all in ,melbourne if you could manage  
to pay us a visit6 ,would it be possible
 for you to do so8 ,you know the        
distance now is not so great as when you
 were here4 ,the trip would do you good2
 and you could stay at my house 7and we 
would have some fun47 ,the fine1 grand  
steamers now running out to ,australia  

should tempt you1 and what a pleasure it
 would give us all to know that you were
 coming--won't you come8  ,,nat4        
,,haddow4   ,,avoid ,,all ,,offense4    
7,page #ahf47  ,the admonition1 so      
impressive then1 and needed always1     
caused the revision of many a manuscript
 from that time on4 ,that which offends 
will never convince4 ,but then1 when    
one's position is assailed1 the very    
assault is considered an offense3 such  
is human nature4 ,few are sufficiently  
civilized to discuss religious          
differences and at the same time avoid  
all offense2 for each one holds his     
religious position as sacred1 whereas1  
it is sacred only when it is true1 when 
it is divine4  ,the ,rev4 ,james        
,ballantyne1 a prominent preacher in    
,melbourne1 had issued a tract4 ,it was 
no offense for him so to do3 it was     
right--even noble from his view of it4  
,but did he present the truth8 was the  
question1 and it is the question even   
now1 and ought to be inquired into by   

everyone4 ,to help in this it was       
resolved that a ,,reply be issued4 ,to  
avoid all offense ,mrs4 ,carr was       
requested to go over the manuscript word
 by word4 ,what she approved it is hoped
 will not be an offense to the reader4  
,the language of the author was quoted1 
his very words1 and the reply followed  
each paragraph1 thus3  ,,baptism--,,its 
,,origin4  ,it is not of man1 but of    
,god4 ,jesus ,christ himself instituted 
it4 ,we find it in the apostolic        
commission1 ',go ye therefore1 and teach
 all nations1 baptizing them in 7into7  
the name of the ,father1 and of the ,son
 and of the ,holy ,ghost4'  ,,true4     
,,its ,,design4  ,it represents and     
seals the union of the soul with        
,christ4 ,it is the pledge that all     
covenant blessings will be bestowed4 ,it
 is the visible sign of our engagement  
to be ,christ's1 by receiving him in    
faith1 and laying ourselves on the altar
 of his service4 ,it is our initiation  
into the membership of the visible      

,church4 ,it is the badge of our public 
,christian profession1 proclaiming our  
separation from the world and our union 
with all who bear the name of ,jesus4   
,,the ,,above ,,is ,,in ,,substance1    
,,what ,,the ,,presbyterian ,,confession
 ,,of ,,faith ,,says1 ,,instead ,,of    
,,what ,,the ,,bible ,,says ,,is ,,the  
,,design ,,of ,,baptism4 ,,whoever      
,,read ,,in ,,the ,,bible ,,that        
,,baptism ,,is ,a ,,sign ,,or ,a ,,seal1
 ,,or ,a ,,symbol ,,of ,,anything8      
,,paul ,,says1 ,,ye ,,were ,,sealed     
,,with ,,the ,,holy ,,spirit1 ,,eph4    
#a3ac ,,and #d3cj4 ,,the ,,rev4         
,,ballantyne ,,says1 ,,baptism ,,is     
,,the ,,seal4 ,,the ,,object ,,of ,,his 
,,tract1 ,,as ,,stated ,,in ,,his       
,,preface ,,was ,,to ,,utter ,a         
,,warning ,,word ,,to ,,the ,,young1    
,,not ,,to ,,let ,,feeling ,,take ,,the 
,,precedence ,,of ,,enlightened         
,,conviction1 ,,and ,,not ,,to ,,make   
,,too ,,much ,,of ,,baptism4 ,,and      
,,this ,,is ,,the ,,way ,,he ,,begins3  

,,by ,,putting ,,baptism ,,in ,,the     
,,place ,,of ,,the ,,holy ,,spirit1     
,,and ,,by ,,making ,,baptism ,,seal    
,,the ,,union ,,of ,,the ,,soul ,,with  
,,christ4 ,,remember ,,this3 ,,ye       
,,ardent ,,and ,,impulsive ,,minds      
,,what ,,saith ,,the ,,scripture ,,on   
,,the ,,design ,,of ,,baptism1 ,,thus   
,,it ,,becometh ,,us ,,to ,,fulfill     
,,all ,,righteousness1 ,,mat4 #c3ae2    
,,he ,,that ,,believeth ,,and ,,is      
,,baptized ,,shall ,,be ,,saved1 ,,mark 
#af3af2 ,,repent ,,and ,,be ,,baptized  
,,in ,,the ,,name ,,of ,,jesus ,,the    
,,christ ,,for ,,the ,,remission ,,of   
,,sins1 ,,and ,,ye ,,shall ,,receive    
,,the ,,gift ,,of ,,the ,,holy ,,spirit1
 ,,acts #b3ch2 ,,as ,,many ,,of ,,you   
,,as ,,have ,,been ,,baptized ,,into    
,,christ ,,have ,,put ,,on ,,christ1    
,,gal4 #c3bg4 ,,baptism ,,is ,a ,,bible 
,,theme1 ,,and ,,why ,,not ,,write      
,,about ,,it ,,in ,,bible ,,language8   
,the words do not declare that ,faith   
must go before ,baptism4 ,the ,greek    

word translated ,,baptized is           
baptistheis4 ,the proper meaning of this
 is1 ,,having ,,been ,,baptized4 ,anyone
 who knows the parts of the ,greek verb 
knows this4 ,the passage1 then1 reads   
thus3 ',he that believeth1 having been  
baptized1 shall be saved4' ,so then1    
after all1 the passage is just as       
favorable to infant baptism as any      
passage could be4  ,,baptistheis ,,means
 ,,having ,,been ,,baptized4 ,,this ,,is
 ,,strictly ,,true4 ,,it ,,is ,,also    
,,strictly ,,true ,,that ,,pisteusas    
,,is ,,the ,,first ,,aorist             
,,participle1 ,,and ,,literally ,,means 
,,having ,,believed4 ,,anyone ,,who     
,,knows ,,the ,,parts ,,of ,,the ,,greek
 ,,verb ,,knows ,,this4 ,,the ,,passage1
 ,,then1 ,,reads ,,thus3 ,,he ,,having  
,,believed1 ,,and ,,having ,,been       
,,baptized ,,shall ,,be ,,saved4 ,,so1  
,,then1 ,,after ,,all1 ,,the ,,passage  
,,is ,,just ,,as ,,unsuitable ,,to      
,,infant ,,baptism ,,as ,,any ,,passage 
,,could ,,be4         99       99       

99       99       99  ,,from ,,the      
,,alumnae4  ,how often do we recall the 
mornings dear ,mrs4 ,carr called us into
 the study hall1 or kept us in the      
dining room to give us those sweet1     
motherly 'little talks4' ,how often her 
words come to us as we see her standing 
there among us1 and1 in her gentle1     
tactful way1 a way which belonged only  
to her1 telling us and advising us about
 those little things which play such    
important part in the formation of      
habits and character4  ,well do we all  
remember the little talk about the      
dirt's being swept into the corner1 or  
left behind the door2 how that in time  
such habits would tell upon our         
characters2 that a neatly kept room was 
but an expression of a girl's inner     
self4  ,her precious words we treasure  
in our hearts and value beyond all      
price4 ,how often have we heard her say3
 ,my dear girls1 this ,i say for your   
good4 ,it may be hard for you to receive
 it1 and you may not know now the value 

of it2 but you will know in after life4 
,and then would follow those talks about
 decorum4 ,think nothing1 do nothing    
that you would be ashamed for your      
father and mother to know4 ,write       
nothing to your intimate friend that    
would not bear the light4 ,admit nothing
 here into your college home that would 
defile4 ,carr-,burdette ,college is the 
child of my brain and heart1 dedicated  
to you4 ,our home is our castle1 and let
 us guard it sacredly4 ,character is    
everything in a young lady's life2      
knowledge is good1 but the wisdom which 
is from above is best4 ,i know that some
 of you girls think ,i am exacting1     
think that ,i am too strict2 but you    
will know hereafter that your best      
friend is the one who tells you kindly  
of your faults and helps you to correct 
them2 and you will be grateful after    
awhile for having given heed to many    
things that you do not like now4 ,you   
will say in your hearts3 ',i see now    
that ,mrs4 ,carr was right1 and ,i am   

glad she said ,,no to many of my wishes 
and warned me against so many little    
things that tempted me4' ,i would deny  
you nothing you want except those things
 that ,i think will injure you4 ,i am   
sleepless at night1 thinking of you1    
planning for your good1 how ,i can best 
discharge the weighty responsibility    
that is on me4  ,she was happiest when  
she knew she was pleasing us1 would join
 in our merry-making1 and laugh aloud at
 our pranks4 ,to reward us was her      
delight4 ,what happy talks she made when
 she bestowed medals and honors6 ,talks1
 sparkling with wit and glowing with    
love and enthusiasm1 on that last night 
of the session before we all went home4 
,she is on the rostrum1 the medals in   
their cases are on the stand2 she takes 
them up1 displays them to the audience1 
one by one1 and talks about each1 its   
meaning1 what it is for1 talks to the   
audience about the girl who is to       
receive it and who could ever equal her 
grace of diction and whole-souled       

sympathy8 ,how she kept the audience in 
suspense1 in excitement2 how she amused 
all by her wit1 and then1 with tearful  
joy1 pinned the medal on the girl whom  
she called to the rostrum to receive it4
 ,holding up the house-keeper's medal1  
she would say to the audience3 ,this    
medal ,i esteem the best of all2 the    
best house-keeper is to be the most     
honored4 ,to be neat1 to be orderly1 to 
show ability to keep a home1 to mind the
 little things that make for neatness1  
to sweep in the corners1 to be          
tasteful--all this is to be lovely in   
conduct2 and1 remember1 that all honors 
of every kind bestowed by               
,carr-,burdette ,college have this      
meaning namely1 every medal1 every      
diploma is hedged about by conduct4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,,to ,,mattie',s ,,memory4  ,from a     
letter written by ,o4 ,a4 ,carr4        
,carr-,burdette ,college1 ,sherman1     
,texas1 is the monument to the memory of
 my dear departed wife4 ,she gave the   

last thirteen years of her life to the  
college4 ,i feel that she literally     
sacrificed her life in the              
accomplishment of her high purpose2 for 
,i know she toiled beyond her strength1 
forgetful of self4 ,she conceived of    
building the college as a ,home and     
,school for young women1 and of how the 
funds were to be secured4 ,she planned  
the building1 which was erected under   
her immediate supervision1 and there is 
not an idea in it that is not hers4 ,she
 devised and toiled to within a few days
 of her death1 and expended all earnings
 on the college1 that she might attain  
her ideal4  ,according to her heart's   
desire that the college should never    
suspend its work1 and that her purposes 
may be carried out as nearly as         
possible1 ,i1 with the assistance of    
able and devoted teachers1 continue the 
struggle4 ,i can not do the work my dear
 wife did2 nor do ,i think that any one 
else could do what she has been doing   
all these years2 but an honest effort   

will be made to accomplish her          
purpose--that ,carr-,burdette ,college  
may continue to be her ,,ideal1 as it is
 now her ,,monument4  ,saturday1        
,october #bf1 #aijg1 on her return from 
shopping with some of the students1 ,i  
offered to assist ,mattie with the      
writing4 ,she said3 ,i am not able to   
think now2 ,i must rest4 ,the next day  
she was unable to rise4 ,the physician  
pronounced the trouble lagrippe1 and he 
assured me1 even at noon1 ,thursday1    
that she would recover4 ,alas6 at #g3cj 
p4 m4 the same day1 death came4 ,there  
was no symptom of suffering4 ,she seemed
 to be sleeping4  ,the loving hands of  
students and teachers and kind friends  
arranged all for the funeral--the first 
public assembly held in the college over
 which she did not preside and direct in
 detail4 ,her lifeless body lay in her  
own beautiful college parlor1 where the 
funeral was conducted by ,brother ,j4   
,h4 ,fuller and ,brother ,a4 ,o4 ,riall 
assisted by ,brother ,r4 ,d4 ,smith1 and

 ,dr4 ,clyce1 ,president of ,austin     
,college4 ,mattie told me years ago that
 she wished ,brother ,graham1 with whom 
she was associated at ,hamilton         
,college1 and ,brother ,mc,garvey1 to   
preach her funeral2 but ,brother ,graham
 had gone where there are no funerals1  
and ,brother ,mc,garvey could not be    
here4 ,the students in a line of march  
descended the stairway1 preceded by a   
young girl in white1 who bore their     
beautiful floral offering4 ,they stood  
on either side of the casket and sang   
7#a7 ,some ,day1 7#b7 ,going ,home1 7#c7
 ,my ,savior ,first of ,all1 7#d7 ,i ,am
 ,only ,waiting ,here1 7#e7 ,sweet ,by  
and ,by4  ,one who knew ,mattie well    
wrote me years ago1 saying1 ,i know of  
no one who can show a more valid claim  
than yourself to have a living          
commentary on the last chapter of       
,proverbs4 ,that chapter was read from  
the twelfth verse to the conclusion1 by 
,brother ,smith1 and ,brother ,fuller   
chose as the text for his beautiful1    

hopeful discourse1 ,the gift of ,god is 
eternal life1 through our ,lord ,jesus  
the ,christ4  ,for nearly forty years   
,mattie and ,i have toiled together4    
,she took responsibility1 financial and 
domestic from me1 and bore it herself4  
,i trusted to her judgment1 and felt    
that all was well when she approved4    
,and now1 at night1 ,i sit alone where  
we used to sit together4 ,i look around 
to see her1 but see only her empty      
chair4  ,illustration3 ,mattie's ,grave4
          99       99       99       99 
99   ,transcriber's ,note3              
,inconsistent spellings and hyphenation 
have been retained4 ,obvious printer    
errors fixed4 ,many punctuation errors  
repaired4  ,in the footnote of page #aib
 missing letters ,alex4 would have me   
take him to see the mother of ,brother  
,be4 sley who went to ,australia444