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for clean hearts. A camp-meeting was also held 

 in that place that year. It was an unusually 

 large meeting. Over four hundred persons were 

 in the tents on the ground. Much good was done 

 and seed sown that is still springing into sight. 



At the close of the year Mr. Showers' health 

 was so poor that he decided to move with his 

 family to California, thinking that a change of 

 climate would benefit him. His parents and 

 friends, however, whom he visited on his way to 

 Conference opposed his going and dissuaded him 

 from it. He then decided to request Conference 

 to leave him without appointment for one year. 

 He had already commenced a book on "Hell." 

 He thought that a year without work would 

 enable him to finish it and at the same time afford 

 him an opportunity to regain his health. Con- 

 ference, however, did not grant his request but 

 made him District Elder of the New Castle dis- 

 trict. He did not seek this position. On the 

 contrary he would have resigned it at once had 

 not his friends, who knew of his intentions, per- 

 suaded him to let the Conference decide for him. 

 He ever had a fear of getting out of the order of 

 the Lord, and although he felt the weakness of 

 his body, he obeyed the voice of the Conference, 

 gave up his expectation of a year's rest from 

 active work, and entered upon the work of his 

 district with all his powers. God honored his 



