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Hamilton, Ont., follows in 1874. For three months every night found our brethren Smith and Munro on the streets, a nearby rented lodge room, on the third floor of a business block, serving as an "after meeting room" to which interested ones were invited. Souls were saved, sometimes at intervals far enough apart to produce deep soul exercise on the part of the preachers, for they had not learned to complacently regard fruitless ministry. Again, a number would profess to get saved, and they would be cheered and encouraged to go on.
One night, during that memorable summer of 1874, three young men sat grouped together in the after-meeting in that upper room. They came in unsaved, they went out rejoicing in Christ. They were Mr. W.William L. Faulknor who died in the Lord's service in 1908, at Pomona, Cal., the writer, and his brother. Several other conversions followed that week, and the weeks following, and the little company of called out and gathered together ones increased, so that a larger hall was secured, and in it a month of Bible readings were held, to establish the saints in God's truth and ways.
Hamilton then became a sort of center, from which the gospel went forth to surrounding towns and country districts. Our brother Smith was in his element when preaching in a "new" place, a school, a hall, anything, if the people could be gotten together, and so we find him in Toronto, Bolton, Galt, or maybe east in Boston, New York, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Binghamton, etc. Or it might be west to Chicago, Elgin, Sparta, Kansas City or St. Louis. With a body never very rugged, he kept at it, and from few places where he went did he come away without leaving some new born souls behind him.
==Sources==
* Our Record, 1913 August; Detroit, MI; courtesy John Bjorlie, Grand Rapids, Michigan; 2018;
* Unknown Spanish Publication; courtesy Marcos Gago Otero, Galicia, Spain; 2019;