Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger: Fourth EditionHolland, E. G. (Elihu Goodwin)
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Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger: Fourth Edition
Holland, E. G. (Elihu Goodwin)
Badger, Joseph, 1792-1852
"In Clark County, at the head waters of the Little Miami,
we had good meetings, were kindly entertained by Charles
Arther, and had agreeable intercourse with Elder Isaac N.
Walters, a young man about twenty years of age, who bids
fair to be useful. At Pleasant township, Madison County, we
were kindly received by Fargis Graham, a man fifty-seven
years of age, who had just returned from a preaching tour
of six weeks in Indiana; he had a good journey, and felt
encouraged. I surveyed with admiration his gray hairs, his
smiles and tears, while he gave an account of his journey.
He visited the poor cabins in the wilderness, lay on the
ground in the great prairie, where the wolves were howling
around him, and passed through hunger and fatigue, but
found God to be with him. His spacious plantation at home,
on which he has more than one hundred head of cattle,
besides other stock in proportion, reminded me of the
ancient possessions of Abraham, Lot, and Jacob. He does
much for the cause, and has long been one of its ornaments
and faithful ministers."
Messrs. Badger, Hathaway and Chapin, paused awhile at Williamsport,
Pickaway County, where they gave seven sermons, and received the kind
attentions of Rev. George Alkire, of whom he speaks in very respectful
terms. Holding meetings in Platt and Highland Counties, he parted with
Mr. H. on the 19th, who travelled to Cincinnati _via_ Kentucky, and
passed ten days with Rev. M. Gardner, in whose congregations he attended
sixteen meetings and preached to large and respectable assemblies. At
Ripley, Brown County, he formed the acquaintance of Hon. E. Campbell,
who had many years been a member of the United States Senate; of him and
his father-in-law, Mr. Dunlap, a native of Virginia, and among the first
settlers of Kentucky, a man who had emancipated thirty slaves and
applied his own hands to labor, he speaks in honoring terms. "His
colored people," says Mr. B., "still flock around him as their
benefactor, and love him as their best friend on earth."
"On the 29th of November, I reached this pleasant city.
Here, and in the adjoining country, I have had glorious
times, an account of which you may expect in my next
number. I have succeeded in obtaining a history of the
churches and conferences in the west and south beyond my
expectations. The preachers appear friendly, and willing to
lend every possible assistance. I shall be able, in a few
weeks, to give your readers a general representation of the
state of things west of the Alleghany mountains, in which
vast extent of country are many thousands of happy
Christians who renounce all party creeds and names, and,
with their naked Bibles in hand, are rejoicing in the hope
of immortality."
The next dates Ripley, 0., January 12, 1826. Our journalist says:--
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