He asked me how much money I had, remarking that his cabin fare was $80.00. I put my hand in my pocket and drew out my entire stock of cash, $40.00. "There captain," I remarked, "is all I have, which is just half the price of a cabin passage." He remarked, "I will take this in part payment!" "But," I asked, "how shall I, how _can_ I pay you the difference?" He replied, "I have heard much of the preachers of the 'Mormon' faith being experts in the scriptures. We shall take on board on Sunday evening an Episcopalian minister, and when we get out to sea and all things in trim, I shall expect you and the minister to give me and my wife some Bible contests." "Now," said I to the captain, "having given you all my money, how can I pay my board bill till you sail?" "Why," he replied, "how can you board but board the ship _Berlin_! Here," (calling to one of the men) "go with this boy and help him with any luggage he may have, and put it in the cabin." Soon I was duly installed. You may readily imagine my feelings of gratitude to God and the monitor on the levee. In due time we sailed, after receiving the reverend gent, who was a tall, portly person, wearing the garb and look of his church. CHAPTER II. THE VOYAGE--DISCUSSION--MINISTER'S DISCOMFITURE--ARRIVE IN LIVERPOOL--KINDNESS OF CAPTAIN BAKER--LEARN OF HIS DEATH AND MY DUTY--MY SHABBY APPEARANCE--FIRST SERMON--MONEY PUT INTO MY HAND--VISIT HOME--UNKINDNESS OF RELATIVES--MORE HELP FROM STRANGERS. When fairly out at sea, and as evening set in, the captain would order lights and request the minister to bring out his large Bible, and "you, little one, bring out your little Bible." Neither of us was loth, and the theological set-to would commence. Captain Baker would exclaim with a hearty oath, that the little one had the best of it, and then the big one would get wrathy, and close his book with a bang and declare the contest off. But Mrs. Baker would interpose and soften his ire, and again we would return "to the law and the testimony." But, alas! at one of these theological "bouts," the theme being water baptism, sprinkling and circumcision, the new birth, etc., I was so marvelously assisted in delineating the new birth--water baptism, that he closed his big book with a clang, and declared that he would never argue with me any more. The captain, jumping up, swore with an oath that the "little one" had the best of it, and Mrs. Baker smiled her approval. I pass over the general features of the voyage. Arriving in the river Mersey early in the morning, and the tide not serving, the prospect was to remain on board till the tide changed. The captain hailed a boat to go on shore, and bid me go with him. At first I declined, knowing I had no means, but by persuasion I consented. He asked me where I was going to, and if I knew any one. I told him "Stanley Buildings," and I knew no one only as my credentials named certain persons, such as Messrs. Ward, Hedlock and Wilson.