on the points to be investigated. I said, "Bro. Flippin, I have my matter arranged, and I prefer relying upon my own resources." I then showed him what I had prepared. He said, "Your arrangement will do."
When we met at the place of debate remarks were made about the contrast between the disputants. I was thirty-one years old, and Elder Standlee had been preaching thirty-one years. Several Baptist preachers were present, evidently expecting their recognized champion to have an easy time. They, however, soon became restless, and about the middle of our second speech in the afternoon they became panic stricken and stampeded. The moderators had us to stop speaking till those preachers could get away and quietude could be restored. When we delivered our first speech in the afternoon of the second day, on the time of the beginning, and had shown that the more intelligent part of Baptist preachers had taught as we did, instead of replying to our speech, Elder Standlee arose and said that he believed himself that we were right on that point. Bro. Flippin then arose and announced the debate closed, and proposed that a song be sung, and that we all shake hands during the song. This was done and we all parted, feeling as pleasantly as if we had been in a protracted meeting.
It was now October, and we had been there three and a half years. Although wife had made the principal part of our wearing apparel we were some behind. We had preached considerable at a school house in what was known as the Flat Woods of Boone county. A few brethren lived there, and though that they would help out the exchange that way that our farm. Was not so use as first. He was going we had own our what we the owners and make us easy. We traded, and were soon a citizen of Boone county. We were now between twenty-five and thirty miles from Berryville.
The winter was a disagreeable one, and not having an overcoat to wear we did not visit Berryville that winter. The sects concluded that we had abandoned the place, and that they could, hence, again build up their interests there. They united their forces, built a parsonage, and located the presiding elder of the M. D. church south, in Berryville. He boasted that he was going to drive the heinous heresy out of Berryville. The brethren wrote to us. We wrote them to have it well circulated that he would preach in Berryville the fifth Lord's day in March, and would preach on the identity of the Church of Christ. We set the time we did with the hope that the elder would be at home. So he was, but could not be induced to hear our effort. The circuit rider that was with him heard the effort. He spoke up a time or two and contradicted, but was loser by so doing. He announced that he would preach on the same subject the next "Sabbath," and requested our presence. We agreed to be there, with the understanding that we were to reply to what he said. He and the elder put in the week preparing his discourse. When we met he spoke two and one half hours, evidently thinking to weary the people so that they would not be prepared to hear our reply. We occupied one hour and a quarter in replying to what he said. When he closed he seemed to realize that, in the estimation of the people, he was badly the loser. He rather sneeringly remarked, "I don't think it is necessary to try to reply to what you have just heard, for I don't see how I could take hold of such
