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made but little opposition then, but requested himto loan me the written piece till our general meeting atMount ‘Tabor, that I might in the interim study hisdoctrines accurately. To this he willingly consented,and I availed myself of the permission, and wrote aparticular reply to his arguments, which was the foun-dation of my ‘‘Address,”’ afterwards published. Thegeneral meeting at Mount Tabor came on, numerously attended. The piece written by brother Thompson ~ was read publicly, and brother Hugh Andrews read also a piece of his own composition on the same side of the _ question. I read mine also, and brother David Purvi-ance, in the same faith, spoke forcibly. . Marshall,Thompson, and Andrews labored hard to bring us backto the ground from which we had departed, and to form a system of doctrines from which we should not recede. - This scheme was almost universally opposed by a largeconference of preachers and people. ‘Those brethren,seeing they could effect nothing, bade us farewell, andwithdrew from us. Soon afterwards, Marshall andThompson joined the Presbyterians, receiving theirconfession again professedly ex animo; and charityhopes they did as they professed. ‘They became ourmost zealous opposers; Marshall was required by thePresbytery to visit all our churches, where he had for-merly preached his errors, and renounce them publicly,and preach to them the pure doctrine. _These two brothers were greatand goodmen. Theirmemory is dear to me, and their fellowship I hope toenjoy ina better world. Marshall has been dead forsome years. He never could regain his former stand-ing, nor the confidence of the people, after he left us.Thompson yet lives (1843) respected, and a zealouspreacher of the New School Presbyterians, in Crawfords-ville, Indiana. Not long since I had several veryfriendly interviews with him. — Old things appeared tobe forgotten by us both, and cast off by brotherly, kindaffection. Hugh Andrews joined the Methodists, andlong since sleeps in death. Of all the five of us that » 2BARTON W. STONE. ‘ 67 left the Presbyterians, I only was left, and they soughtmy life. In the winter of 1809, my only son, Barton Warren,died; and in the spring following, May 30, my dearcompanion Eliza, triumphantly followed. ‘She waspious, intelligent and cheerful, truly a help-meet to mein all my-troubles and difficulties. N othing could de-press her, not even sickness, nor death itself, I willrelate an incident respecting her of interest to me, andmay be to her children. When my mind began tothink deeply on the subject of the Atonement, I was en-tirely absorbed in it, yet dared not mention it to any,lest it might involve other minds in similar perplexities.She discovered that something uncommon oppressedme. J was laboring in my field—she came to me andaffectionately besought me not to conceal, but plainlydeclare the cause of my oppression. We sat down,and I told her my thoughts on the Atonement. WhenI had concluded, she sprang up and praised God aloudmost fervently for the truth. From that day till herdeath, she never doubted of its truth. At her death, four little daughters were left me, theeldest not more than eight years old. I broke up house-keeping, and boarded my children with brethren, de-voting my whole time gratuitously to the churches, seat.tered far and near. My companion and fellow laborerwas Reuben Dooley, of fervent piety, and engaging ad-dress. Like myself he had lately lost his companion, ©and ceased house-keeping, and boarded out his littlechildren. We preached and founded churches through- |out the Western States of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennes-see. Occasionally we visited our children. All mydaughters when young, professed faith in Jesus, andwere baptized. The youngest, Eliza, has tang sincetriumphantly entered into rest. October 31, 1811, I was married to my present com-panion, Celia Ww, Bowen, daughter of Captain WilliamBowen and Mary his wife, near Nashville, Tennessee.She was cousin to my former wife. We immediately % 68 , BIOGRAPHY OF removed to my old habitation in Bourbon county, Ken-— tucky, and lived happily there for one year. Then byadvice and hard persuasion, we were induced to moveto Tennessee, near my wife’s widowed mother. Theold mother put us on a very good farm, but without a ~ comfortable house for our accommodation. I labored hard at building a house and improving the farm, till Ilearned that mother Bowen designed not to give meadeed to the farm, and that the right of giving a deedlay solely in her. Icould not blame her for this, asthe lands of my first wife, by the laws of Kentucky, be-longed to her children at her death. She thought itprudent to deed the land on which we lived to herdaughter and children. I had before thought the landwas left to my wife by the will of her deceased father. As soon as I heard of our old mother’s determination, I concluded to return to Kentucky. I communicated this to my companion, who appro-ved of my course. Ina few days I started back toKentucky, if possible to get back my old farm I had sold. Ihad sold it for $12 per acre; but the price of lands had greatly risen, and I could not get my farmagain for less than $30 per acre. I was unable to repur-chase it, or any other at these prices. While I was in
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