CHAPTER VIII.
In Quest of Health.
HIS physician at Chester, having done all he could for him, advised him to take a voyage. So in the spring of 1867 he crossed the atlantic on a visit to his parents at the family home in Rosendale, Wisconsin.
Though his departure from his native land was not intended to be for good—only a trip for his health—yet it was most heartrending for him to part with his sister Emily; and it was still more agonizing for her, as he was the last of the family on the same side of the ocean with her, and was also her dearest friend and comforter.
We shall not try to describe his long journey of four thousand five hundred miles from Wales to Rosendale, nor shall we try do depict the cordial welcome given him on his arrival; suffice it to say that the change of scenery, and the splendid nursing and tender care of mother and sisters, enlivened his spirit, if not increased his strength. So anxious was he to recover, however, that, after a long rest with his dear ones at Rosendale, he took a trip to try the drier climate of Minnesota. He left in the spring of 1868; and let his affectionate letters to his parents speak for themselves.
Quotation from a letter to his mother, written from Minnesota, September 10, 1868—"Dr. Davies is going to examine my lungs, and if he pronounce me too weak to take a pastoral charge just now, I shall
