Show afaf gf af ten r kauf W STORI jl 11 fram herb re and H ta chaa ja it work of iowa circuit ri rider der ARION TA IA A circuit rider MARION M in the delaware district of iowa when there were fewer people in tile tho state than there are now in tile the city of des and when Dela delaware inre county for which Ms his circuit was named had but one church a little franics linck at yankee settlement rev F X miller Al liller of cedar falls fails methodist minister in iowa since 1850 claims to havo serve served A more years in the me ministry in this irate than any other clergyman rev jar air miller at the age of eighty el clity seven sevell oitt ended ills his sixty seventh consecutive session of the flie upper iowa lowa conference of tile the methodist episcopal church recently in session here and the conference Is this cearan year in its sixty eighth session the upper iowa conference was organized in 1850 and held its first nn all nuni nual session in that year in 1855 mr miller iad had conic come west as a hoy boy of nineteen fresh from a seminary at newcastle pa to read ine medicine dIFIne with his uncle at west union la ia but he decided to enter the min ministry astry instead and in 1850 1856 he fie obtained a license to preach for the methodist atu episcopal church ho to a circuit which was assigned lnell included led four of Delaw delaware tire county towns greeley Ea rIvIlle antl yankee manchester ment the latter since bettl settle e wood renamed ed edge th young minister lind other ile he ila ancl to preach dlf dif at all four towns every sunday and lid alg Is schedule wa lie he preached it a sermon hermoa early sunday morning nt it whichever the four towns lie chose of 0 as ills his starting point then ile he mounted his gaddie horse and rode five or six miles to the next settlement preached his third sermon sometimes lie admits the same sermon for tile the third time at the lie next crossroads in tile the afternoon und and in the evening ile he was due at the last of the four towns during the week he held religious services in ill the four communities as often as he could reach them thein for tills year around ministry through thunderstorm fend blizzard mr miller got a year from th tha cen central traI organization of tile the methodist church the rest of ills subsist subsistent ene caine from tile the people lie served la ia the form of board and keep |