Thirty Years in the Itinerancy

The author recounts thirty years of service as an itinerant Methodist minister in Wisconsin, presenting a chronological register of appointments, colleagues, and congregational life. He describes sermons, class and prayer meetings, revivals, camp meetings, church-building efforts, and missionary and Indian mission work, along with administrative matters of district and annual conferences. Local events such as fires, cholera, and community responses are included alongside pastoral duties like visits, licensing, and preaching. The narrative addresses controversies and wartime concerns faced by the conference and intersperses reminiscences, institutional developments, and practical anecdotes intended to preserve memories for ministers and lay readers.