The man that runs against this cause and opposes it is not simply running against men and opposing them, but against God, and must come to nothing. The cause is simply right, infallibly right, and nothing opposed to it is right. In this view we started in it, and have never had a doubt about its correctness and supreme authority over everything else in the name of religion. In our incipient movements every member was a _preacher_, if not _publicly_, _privately_, and every preacher was at work, as opportunity opened the way, in private, the social circle, the prayer-meeting, the established and regular meeting on the Lord’s day for the commemoration of the suffering of Jesus, anywhere and everywhere, as a sense of propriety dictated on all occasions. There were additions at almost every meeting, whether for prayer, or on the Lord’s day, and frequently when there were no meetings. All were _missionaries_, and missionaries _all the time_. Great numbers were almost daily added to the church, of both men and women. Indeed, many of the sectarian priests became obedient to the faith. We had _discipline_ in the church—order, and the members were looked after; not only the popular and rich, but the afflicted and the poor. All were enlisted in the work, and had time to give attention to it. The evangelists were self-sacrificing men, seeking the salvation of the people, and preached in private dwellings, school houses, in barns, mills, groves, anywhere and everywhere that a few people could be found, who would hear the word of the Lord. The people crowded out to hear, and, hearing, believed to the salvation of their souls. They were of one heart and of one soul. The Bible was their book. “Thus saith the Lord” was their watchword, and a man that would sneer at it would have been regarded as a skeptic. “It is written” would be heard in the preaching and conversations. “The chapter and verse” were demanded. It was not the _novelty_ of the cause that gave it the victory, but the certainty that it was right—that it was from God and of supreme authority—that carried it to the hearts of the people. It was not unsupportable human schemes and devices that gave it power among the people, but the invulnerable nature of the cause itself. It was not the polish of classical and plausible men that carried it through the country, but the manifest authority of God in it. Jesuits can only excel in being Jesuits; schemers can only excel in scheming; but “the excellency of the power” that pushed this cause through this country was not of Jesuits nor schemers, but of God; the preaching of the cross, the wisdom of God and the power of God. We knew nothing but Christ and him crucified, and went ahead with our plain and unvarnished story of Calvary. God was with us. A PHALANX OF YOUNG MEN.