Hugh Montgomery Author:Hugh Montgomery 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. ON A FAEM AT SCHOOL. Twenty-one—Littleton, N. H.—Deacon Cobleigh—On a farm— First Sabbath in United States—Tested—Sunday sugar-making— Meeting... more » at Deacon Cobleigh's—Six young men converted—The teacher and her girls—Jackman's—Debate with annihilationist— Walker Hill—Infidel's dollar—Whipping not taken—Disturbers rebuked—Joins Methodist Episcopal Church—School—Debate on hell —License to exhort—Newbury Seminary—Ryegate—Hungry—In the pulpit. IN the spring of 1860 Hugh attained his majority. The time had come when he must take his first steps toward his life-work, and he must go alone, except as God would accompany and help him. His life had hitherto been passed in a rural neighborhood. He had not received the ordinary instruction of the common school; he was unfamiliar with books, and he was poor. He had come of a hardy race, and had a vigorous constitution ; he had lived in the free, open air of the country, and had good health; he had the love of God in his heart, and an irrepressible desire to do good to men. Down in his soul was the conviction of his duty to preach the Gospel, with the memory of his promise to obey if God should open the way. For this he must prepare himself. He must obtain an education, and an education costs money. He hadSeeking Employment. 35 no money, and must earn it. He knew no trade, and must earn it by hiring out himself to work on a farm. Such was the simple logic of this honest-hearted young man, who had four years previously so solemnly consecrated his all to Christ. He set out from his father's house with his bundle in his hand to earn by labor money, not to lay the foundation of an earthly fortune, which none who know him will doubt his ability to create, but to expend in preparing himself to preach the Gospel of Christ. His en...« less