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SOLITARY
PLACES
MADE
GLAD:
BEING
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES FOR THIRTY-
TWO YEARS IN NEBRASKA;
WITH
SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS TOUCHING THE DIS-
COVERY, EARLY SETTLEMENT, AND
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
STATE.
BY THE
REV. HENRY T. DAVIS,
OF THE NEBRASKA CONFERENCE.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad
for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
-ISAIAH xxxv, I.
PREFACE.
OME
time before his death, the late Dr. W. B. Slaughter had in
contemplation the writing of a book on Nebraska. He requested me, as
I was one of the first pioneers, to furnish him material touching the
early settlement of the Territory. The request was complied with, and
a limited amount furnished. He afterward said: "You have not
furnished me the tithe of what I expected; I shall expect a great
deal more from you." Soon after this remark he was called to his
heavenly home.
Later, one of the leading members of
the Nebraska Conference said to me: "You owe it to the Church and
posterity to leave in permanent form your early experiences and
observations in Nebraska." A leading pastor in a sister denomination
of the State suggested the same thing, and similar suggestions have
been made by others. These remarks impressed me with the thought that
perhaps I did owe it to the
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Church and the world to follow out their suggestions; hence this
volume.
I give this unpretentious book to the
world, earnestly praying the blessing of God upon every one who may
chance to read its pages. If it shall be the means, in the hands of
God, of leading a soul to Christ, or a believer up to a higher plane
of religious experience or to more active service for the Master, my
labor shall not be in vain.
H. T. DAVIS.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, June 4, 1890.
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