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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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CHAPTER III. DISCIPLINE. In April, of 1847, Mr. Aiken having become
restless and tired of Peoria, gathered up what remained of his
property, and bought a farm of eighty acres on the State Road to
Iowa, twenty miles from Peoria, and near a little village called
Brimfield. His wife had worked very hard during the winter. She had
tried to save what she could, and to earn money by keeping a house
full of boarders. Of course the thought of quitting the city was a
welcome one to her, brought up as she had been to love the free
life of the country; and she entered gladly into the arrangements
for moving. It seems to have been her destiny to begin housekeeping
in unfinished houses. At Brimfield, although the farm was all under
cultivation, there were but two rooms in their dwelling ready for
use. Mrs. Aiken took up with great delight the work of fitting up
the house and adorning the place, overseeing the setting out of
many fruit and shade trees, and the planting of a garden. The
village of Brimfield had been settled almost exclusively by New
Englanders, who gladly welcomed a Vermont family among them. Mrs.
Aiken immediately commenced here the missionary labors that had
occupied so much of her time at Peoria. Young as she still was, she
had been sought out by both pastor and people to visit the sick,
look after the poor, and lay out the dead. A peciiliar gift of
sympathy and helpfulness was recognized in her by all. When Mrs.
Aiken first went to Brimfield there were no churches in the place.
Union meetings were held in the school house, which were sustained
by Christians of whatever name. Mrs. Aiken greatly missed her own
church, which of course she could attend only occasionally. Dr.
Henry Wes- ton, now President of Crozier Theological Seminary, but
then pastor of the Peoria ...
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