"My first religious service at Fort Morgan was in 1897. It was a sermon preached one evening as I was returning to Brighton from Yuma where I had said mass that Sunday morning. The sermon was well attended, and listened to with respect by a few Catholics and a larger number of Protestants. There was a Presbyterian church in the village and a preacher. The next time I preached there, the entire population came to hear me except the preacher’s family and I was told that they wanted to come but could not, as they had to hold some kind of service in their own church."

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