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Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1910 Dear Brother Howe: I have your card of Aug. 15th saying that you expected to be at Fowlerton, the 18th. I have had an attack of prevailing diarrhea, without its usual attendants here; chills, and other severe characteristics. The doctor thinks I will not be recovered this warm weather, and at my advanced age, to attend the conference at all. I have asked a transfer to Auglaize, I joined White River Conference in 1853--fifty years ago. Except two years on the Pacific Coast, I have continued till now. Three months from yesterday, I will be eighty-two years old. Sixty years ago next November 17th, I spoke first from a text. I have supported every good man in |
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August 22, 1910. White River Conference, or connected with it by official position. I opposed Stewart the falsifier; Tennell the Sheol-bound one, and Keiter the Looter. All these have proved the righteousness of my opposition. I gave but lukewarm support to McNew, the [Dowie?] deserter, to Shumway, who lyingly joined the Masons, and to B. F. Moore, who was converted (perverted) by low birth, and died in little respectabilty, a Liberal. I sustained such men as George Muth, John T. Vardman, Caleb Witt, Daniel Stover, Wm. Hall, A. E. Evans, Anselm Butler (a saint), Cyrus Smith, W. C. Ketner; and they ever stood by me. Probably Smith and Keter in old age and affliction thought, my opposition to Keiter unreasonable. Floyd, Tharp, Rust, Oler, and followers, have never sought to repair their Barnaby-Montgomery conduct to me. Time enough has been given. It is now with them and the Lord. I have outlived it. I am recovered from the affects of my short, but evil, attack of the diarrhae. I should have been glad to have seen you at Hopewell Conference, & to have seen the laity there. I hope you saw my greatly improved farm! Your Brother, Milton Wright |