Autobiography of Elder Henry Kendall Author:Henry Kendall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. VISIT AND REMOVAL TO MAINE, ORDINATION AND SETTLEMENT. My troubles with my landlord continued till the next April, when the best that I could... more » do for myself was to take two hundred dollars, settle up my business and quit the premises. So after my debts were paid I had but little left. I then moved my wife and two children to her mother's and prepared for a journey into the new settlements of Maine. But my trials did not end here. My wife continued utterly opposed to my preaching and completely set against moving to the East. My enemies advised her to leave me. But I told her I would not compel her to go. This relieved her in some measure. Before 1 started, I met with the church—told them I was going East,—they knew my standing and gift; and I wished them to give me such writings as they thought proper. They gave me the following writing. " This will certify that Brother Henry Kendall is a member in good standing in the Baptist church in Meredith, and has a profitable gift to be improved in publis, and we recommend him as such to all Christian people." This was all I wanted. I started on my journey May 1st 1802. I visited several places on the Kennebec and stopped a few days at Mount Vernon, where I tried to preach several times : apparently to the great joy of the brethren. Here I became acquainted with Elder Gordon, the first Baptist minister I saw in Maine. From thence I went eastward to Palermo. Here I found a small Baptist church destitute of preaching. I spent a Sabbath with them, and then went to North Palermo and preached in a barn. In this vicinity 1 found a number of brethren and sisters who moved from Meredith the year previous, with whom I had taken sweet counsel in the church. We had a joyful meeting on the Sabbath. The people collected from...« less