About the last of August I left home to visit the Elk Creek Association of Old School Baptist which convened at Texmo, Day County, Okla. Though 150 miles away, my mother, aged 75 years, went with me by private conveyance.

Leaving the beautiful rich tablelands south of Tyrone, the surface becomes rolling. The southeast corner of the county, though not so rich in soil, is favored with more Jiving streams of water, while its hills and bluffs afford protec­tion for stock.

Traveling southeast we passed Ivanhoe in Beaver county, Catesby and Gage in Woodward, and on by Providence and Shirley in Day county. We found the general surface in Woodward and Day broken or hilly, yet, like Beaver, teeming with abundance of melons, maize, kaffir, broom corn and some Indian corn. Around Providence, just north of the Big Canadian, the black sandy soil, especially between the hills, is very produc­tive. Claims sell at $250 to $1000, corn runs 30 or 40 bushels to the acre, and is worth 25 to 30 cents per bushel.

The meeting at Texmo was well attended by ministers and members. The preaching was of the scriptural or Old Baptist sort, setting forth God's wisdom, power and grace in the election, predestination, special atonement by Christ and special regeneration by the Holy Spirit of all those foreappointed to glory; and that the Spirit's renewing work, sanctifying or making pure the soul, is followed by our good works as proof of the new birth.

Moreover the people were fed after Primitive Baptist style, without money or price, on natural as well as spiritual food.

While absent about two weeks, my mother endured the trip without fatigue and longs to see such a meeting in Beaver county.

If these lines are read by a Primitive Bap­tist of Beaver county, please address me at Tyrbne, Okla., and come with your neighbors to hear Elder Woods preach at my mother's home in section 8, tp. 4, range 19, at 11 a. m, on Wed­nesday before the third Sunday in October.

M. D. DENMAN.