Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences On the way from Agawam to Stratford We spent a night, and my mother and brother left me in bed while they Went to hear a sermon by Elder Knapp, the great revivalist. At the breakfast-table I heard them tell What happened at the meeting. That morning Elder Knapp had been in court on a charge of inciting a riot at histumultuous revival meetings. In his sermon that even ing he described the scene in court that morning, where he said, It looked as if all hell had boiled over and this was the scum of it. While he was speaking, some one in the gallery fired an air-gun, which broke a pulpit lamp on one side of the speaker. The gun was found where it had been thrown from a gallery window, but the culprit was never discovered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.