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his short but eventful life, he was present at 

 nearly every camp-meeting, holiness convention 

 and meeting of importance in the Conference 

 always leaving his impress on the minds of the 

 majority of tin* pepple who heard him speak. 

 He was present at the Leechburg Holiness Con- 

 vention last summer. The people by whom he 

 was entertained although non-professors and 

 previously unacquainted with him, were so won 

 to him, that had they heard of his death in time^ 

 they would have attended his funeral : which. 

 would have caused them to travel a distance of 

 one hundred and ten miles and return. I also> 

 attribute to the words, work, and general in- 

 fluence of Brother Showers more than to any 

 other instrument used of God, the winning of 

 more than a score of the choicest of the Pentecost 

 workers, who were sent into the bounds of our 

 Conference together with a large number who 

 were converted under their labors. Brother- 

 Showers had the confidence of these dear people.. 

 He seemed to explain matters to them so clearly 

 that in every case where he was thrown into their 

 society they were drawn towards us. He attended 

 both the camp-meetings held by the Pentecost 

 Brethren within the Pittsburg district during 

 the years LS93, '94, and .'95. During these meet- 

 ings it was not an uncommon thing to see him 

 in the interval of public services, seated beneath 



