IN 1902 a canvasser came to our house, selling "Best Stories." We were then living in a large town, and had no use for canvassers, but we asked him in. After a little while he began talking about the Bible. I told him I had read it some, but did not understand it. He said, "Perhaps you would like to know more about it." I told him I would like to know a few things to "down" a certain minister, who had been at our house a few days before, talking about the poor in a manner I did not think becoming to a Christian, much less a minister. He said he would come back Monday evening.
He came, according to appointment, and we studied the subject of the state of the dead. Several readings followed, and things began to look too plain for me to longer keep Sunday. The canvassers was Brother Wm. Lewsadder.