Excerpt from Echoes From Peak and Plain: Or, Tales of Life, War, Travel and Colorado Methodism This book is the outcome of a lifetime of active service, covering more than threescore years. It is not a biography, yet it contains much that is biographic. It is not a history, yet it is full of historical matter. Those reading it will, I trust, be instructed and helped the more bravely to fight the battles of life. The aim of the writer has been to present facts in a plain way, not to give occasion to the chronic croaker, but to cheer the voyager on life's rough sea. This book has been prepared from the standpoint of the "Rank and File" in the itinerancy, and as a stimulus to all laborers in the Master's vineyard. Heartfelt gratitude is hereby expressed to those who have aided in the preparation of this volume, either by furnishing facts and sketches, or otherwise especially to Peter Winnie, Esq., secretary of the Colorado Conference Historical Society, who has cheerfully given access to all its archives; also to my brother, the present well-known secretary of the Colorado Conference, Rev. H. L. Beardslcy, for permission to examine ever document in the Conference trunk; to Rev. W. F. Steele, D. D., professor in the Iliff School of Theology, for consultations, freely given, and for sundry suggestions while reading the manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.