Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 66: September 1, 1904 There were a good many small towns around Paisley, and the council of the branch sent me and Elder Sproul out to preach in them. We went and felt very happy while doing so, although we had to walk many miles, often being cold, wet and hungry. Nevertheless, we felt a joy in our labors that nothing else could give us. I well remember that trade was very dull, and I was working part of the time, only a day and half each week. I called my best shoes my patent ones, because each shoe had a hole right through both the outer and inner soles, so that they had this advantage: if they let the water in, they were sure to let it out again; but when the gravel got in, it was not so pleasant. When I felt dull, Elder Sproul, who was a good singer, would start up a hymn, and when he felt discouraged I would try my best to make him laugh by some pleasant antic. But the best of all was the peace and comfort we enjoyed through the Spirit of God as we trudged along, wearied after our day's work, especially if we had baptized some honest souls into the Church; then indeed our hearts were filled with joy. When the people began to get careless in coming to our meetings, we left off traveling so far, and by the advice of the brethren, we opened a hall in a place called Charleston, in the suburbs of Paisley. Here we preached for some time, and baptized quite a number, among whom was David M. Stuart. While preaching in this place one or two interesting incidents occurred, which I will mention. 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.