Washington telegraph., 1854-01-11
East Alabama Religion!

East Alabama Religion!
A spicy correspondent of the New York
Spirit of the Times, who halls from some
where across the Cbattahooebie, lean our
cotemporary of the East Alabamian dot
The geographical locality?) sends the follow
ing ''notes of a Farewell Discourse recently
delivered by one of the rec1ihed Pastors of
that neighborhood The particular denom-
ination to which our venerable Divine is at
tached is not named, but we presume he be-
longs to the other wing of the "Softs'' albeit
his 'preachment' smells strong of the fourth
proof doctrine of the 'harls;' and its publ
cation will probably subject Father Donb'
to public reprimand if not to final exconnmu-
nication. This will not be done by the
members of that church. however; for if the
correspondent speaks truly they themselves
appear to be as fond of upper-story bricks
as the reverend gentleman himself. We
must therefore give all showing, that the
reader may be able to judge correctly of
the comparative sobriety of the aforesaid
Pastor and his spiritual disciples:
"My breethren,'' continued Father Donl,,
'thar's thing been on my mind, all the time
I've been talkin' to you this mornin' =
Looks like the Lord has been callin' all day
for me to tels 1t right out' But my
breethren'-here the parson' voice fatereJ
and he wiped his eyes with the tail Of his
hunting shirt-'I nately hate to say the
word, bekase it's concarnin' giyin' up the
church here on Timber-Gut Greek, whar
I've sowed the good seed-glory to the Lord
and whar it sprouted and brought forth
fruit, some fifty and some an hundred fold.
Brethren, the Lord knows | love you Tim
ber- Cutters; but my brethren, the Church
and me seems to be a-diferin' (differing) on
some p'ints O. faith. and [ reckon I'd better
go. Yea, Lord. thy will be done, but Tim
Der Gut is dear to the heart of old Daddy
Donk, Here I've striv and here I've ras-
tled.and here I've snake-poled Satan as far as
the Lord has give me strength. Praise the
Lord, I've give the old varmint's hide some
mighty tight dressin's, but he's gittin' the
upper hand of old Daddy Donk now.
Yes. breethren'-here the speaker warm
ed up evidently-'you that lives away down
here on Timber Gut, don't know what's
doin' away up yonder to jacksonville; but
I'll tell you brethren, Yes. I'll raise my
voice and tell it so loud, that there shan't
be man, nor woman, nor a child, on all
Timber Gut, but shall hear it-iSataaa has
had another Rfrt aca. tie old Strunzget
Ba5ylon-and what dye reckon, she's
brought forth? say, achat has the old
slut of Babylon brought forth! Why, Sons
o'-TEMP-RANcE.
Yes, brethren, and fore you know, you'll
have cross Of the same stock down here on
Timber Gut. | see it a-comin And right
here, brethren, this fetches me up to the
pint [ was amin at, a while ago. Bless
God, brethren, you all know that when old
Daddy Donk fust come down on Timber
Gut; about year ago, there warnt but two
or three brethren Of the Two-Seed faith on
all Timber Gut ! But your old Daddy
preached and he prayed in the neighbors
houses, and by-and- by the Lord begun to
move, and many were added to the Church,
And by-and-by brethren, we got up
'scription to build house to the Lord, and
the brethren was liberal, and we built this
nice house-and brethren, we had seven
dollars and half, over and above buildin'
the House of the Lord, And the Lord pros
pered the Church on Timber Gut, on every
hand; and we took the money that was over
and above the buildin' of the meetiu' house.
and we laid it out m fifteen gallons of
mighty good corn sehisky, for the breeth-
ren to use on ineetin' days. Oh, glory to
the Lord, them was the days when the
Church on Timber Gut was like green bay
tree. Then you might seed the brethren
fiockin' in of a Sunday mornin',, Then
was the time your old Daddy Donk went
down into the water, with somebody or an
other, every mcetin' day. And brethren
here the speaker sobbed between his
words-'there was added to the Church on
durin the time ace had that good spirits,
.f0fty-fUe members
Praise God. it was just adzactly three 10
tile gallon, brethren,
But now, brethren, continued the vener-
able Donk with a trembling plaintive into
nation: but now, brethren, them spirits
has been out, for two meetin's. Your old
Daddy comes down every month to see you,
and preach for you, and pray for you, and
fight Satan for you, and thar's not drap in
the kag. The Church, too, is lukewarm,
and Satin seems to be gettin it all his own
way. Brethren, [ hope the Lord will bless
the Church on Timber Gut, but the way
things is fixed, brethren, your old Daddy
Donk is satisfied in his own mind that the
Lord is about to call somebody else to take
charge of the Church on Timber Gut, for
your old Daddy do not feel willin' to rastle
for souls with Satan, and gre him all en-
der hoIt''s
+ 1t is but justice to the highly intelligent
congregation of Parson Donk, to state that a
committee was raised Immediately upon the
conclusion of the Parsons discourse, and a
sufficient sum raised to procure suitable
supply of munitions of war; and that the