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when quarterly meetings were held, and hence, very little attention was given to the lambs.
In those days it was an exception to find a Sunday school connected with a country appointment, and it required a great effort to induce a Presiding Elder to address a Sabbath school. My spiritual father, who was elected Presiding Elder, when asked to speak to the school replied: "I have not the gift to speak to Sunday school scholars." At that time a timely and salted article appeared in the "Botschafter" headed: "Our children have no minister," by Bishop J. J. Esher. It was in the year 1868 when the opinion was strongly expressed that more could be done for our children if a minister would be engaged who could devote his time to the best interest of the Sunday school cause and work, sonewhat as General Secretary, F. C. Berger, is now doing.
To accomplish this, a petition, containing 100 names from the 1st Church in Buffalo, was sent to the Annual Conference, convening in Liverpool, N.Y., with the promise that they would pay the expenses of such a man. Brother G. Hofheins and myself were delegated by the congregation to attend the Conference for the
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