is going up to their church meeting; I subscribed $10.00 for the year to Bro Nash, I don't know whether we ought to give more or not, that don't go very far these times;  He bought a small house and lot in the spring and gave $200 down out of his $500, and three hun, where every thing to buy, wont make a very good living. Sabbath, Nov 6th, 11 O'clock;  This is a calm quiet day, and we are all at home, reading or writing.  We had all intended to have gone to Desmoines to meeting today, but it was raining when we got up and looked so unfavorable that we made no preparations to go; but about 9 O'clock it cleared off beautifully, and is quite warm and sunny, so if we had only know it we could have gone as it did not rain - enough to make the roads slippy;  I am very sorry indeed, as it was communion day at both churches, and it has been so long since I have been to communion; I was up yesterday to covenant meeting which I enjoyed highly, although there were very few out, which I am sorry to say is too often the case in all the life giving, essential meetings of the church;  We have received two new members lately, a Mr & Mrs Davis; I hope from the cheering words they spoke yesterday that they will be a very profitable addition to the life of our church.  I met Mrs. Walker for the first time since my return, she came home about three weeks befor I did; every one supposed that she had gone too stay; it is too bad to see a woman of her mind, piety, and cultivation, tied to such a low, groveling specimen of humanity; she looks so subdued and heartbroken; I do pity her; I met her besotted husband on the street yesterday it made me fairly shudder to pass him, but to live with him would be terrible in the extreme.  I saw in the "Statesman" that the "Peace men" (?) were to have a "grand rally" yesterday in Des Moines, at the Court House, but rather think it was a "grand
