"How did you like the circuit?"

"I am very well pleased to change."

Not much encouragement in that answer."

"We can't all have good places. Some of us must take our turn in the
highways and byways of the land."

"True; I am not disposed to complain. I have taken up the cross, and
mean to bear it to the end, if possible, without a murmur."

"As we all should. Well, brother Odell, if you pass the year on the
circuit without a murmur, your faith and firmness will be strong. I
can assure you that it will be more than I did--a great deal more."

"I have been among some pretty rough people in my time."

"So have I; but"--and he checked himself; "however, I will not
prejudice your mind; it would be wrong. They do as well, I suppose,
as they know how, and the best can do no more."

"Truly said. And the more rude, ignorant, and selfish they are, the
more need they have of gospel instruction, and the more willing
should we be to break the bread of life for them. If our Master had
not even 'where to lay his head,' it ill becomes us to murmur
because every natural good is not spread out before us."

In this state of mind, Odell went to his new circuit. Having
deposited his family, consisting of a wife and one child, in the