Flowers and fruits from the wilderness: or, Thirty-six years in Texas and two winters in Honduras,/ by Z.N. Morrell, an old Texan.

PREFACE.
HAVE written this book because I thought I ought
to write it. Some of the facts contained in it
X were known only to me.' Many that were known
only to me, and a few of my early associates ill
Texas, who are still living, would be lost when we are
dead, and our time is very short.
For the past fifteen years I have often been urged
to write by those who were anxious to have some
of the facts and incidents connected with the early
society and the rise of religion in Texas preserved.
Last October I was requested to write by the Baptist
State Convention of Texas.
These friends and brethren did not ask me to write
a book; but the work has grown upon me, as I toiled
on, until it has assumed this form.
I have written under great personal affliction and
physical suffering. Had I beein able to go on
with ministerial duties, the work would never have
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