from among the guests as she needed for helpers and waiters. Her stock of
aprons was marvelous, and the dispatch with which she equipped her corps
and clothed their ruddy countenances in smiles was only equaled by the
speed with which everything was finished in time for meeting call, and her
"girls" and herself in their places in good time. And whatever woman in
the meeting did not do her part of the praying, speaking, singing, and, on
occasion, shouting too, that woman was not Elizabeth Arnold.

When Zion's hospitable entertainers shall be acknowledged before assembled
worlds, and all their liberality and painstaking in the spirit of their
Master, who fed the multitude, shall be mentioned to his glory and their
credit through his grace, will not the humble name of Elizabeth Arnold be
spoken with the honorable mention of that host of noble, patient toilers
who fed the people, that they might thus detain them under the influence of
Him who stood waiting to feed them with the bread of eternal life?




CHAPTER VIII.


EXTENDS HER LABORS.

After about a dozen and a quarter years the Arnold place lost the meetings
both of the circuit and of the society.

The changes of business and travel left the place quite one side, and
the meetings had been gradually removed to more central and convenient
locations. Mr. Arnold had been called by the church to hold meetings as an