Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-03-14
Aneedo.. Of a Pioneer Methods. Prsnchsr.

! Harper's new Weekly says Who has mol
heard of Peter Cartwright, the Pioneer Westerr
Preacher, famous for his camp meetings and hii
religious zeal, and his native el1quence, and his
quaint anecdotes, and a thousand pleasant eccen.
| tricities? For hundreds OF miles in the Western
States there is not'a cabin where the old preach-
er's name is not household word. ad,..t
Riding out Of Springfield, Illinois, one after
noon, Mr.. Cartwright's attention was attracted
| by shouts from a buggy close to him on the road
-s.Glory to God! Amen / Another snner's
| down! Hallelujah!' At first he thought the
| sounds must come from some persons who had
just arrived from camp meeting and were still
under the influence of the excitement; but riding
| nearer, he saw that the tenants of the buggy
two men and girl were convulsed with laugh
| ter, and evidently mocking at him. he refined
up his horse to let them proceed (; but they stop
ped too, and sung as before: ssGlory to God y
Pray on, brother! Another sinners down =
Pray onp' Then he tried to pass them, but his
horse was too stiff, and they continued their yells,
"Hallelujah Another sinners down! Another
souls converted / Pray on, brother 70 till the
poor preacher was distracted. The rest of the
adventure he must tell in his own racy language.
1t would be difficult for me to describe my feel
ing about this time. 1t seemed to me that was
delivered over to be tormented by the devil and
his imps. just at this moment i thought of
desperate mud-hole about q quarter of mile
ahead; it was long one, and dreadful deep mud
and many wagons had stuck in it and had to be
pried out. Near the centre Of this mud. hole was
a place Of mud deeper than anywhere else. On
the right stood stump about four feet high
All the wagons had to de driven as close to this
stump as possible to avoid deep rut on the left,
where many wagons had stnck; | knew there was
q bridleway that wound round through the brush
to avoid the mud, and it occurred to me that as
we came near to this muddy place would take
the bride way and put my horse at the topof his
speed, and by this means get away from these
tOrmentors, as knew they could not 60 fast in
this long reach of mud. When we came to the
mud, L took the bride way and put spurs and
whip to my horse. Seeing | was rapidly leaving
them in the rear, the driver cracked his whip, and
put his horses at almost full speed, and such was
their anxiety to keep up to me, to carry on their
sport, that when they came to this bad place as
it happened they never saw the stump on their
right. The fore wheel of the wagon struck oen-
trally on the stump, and as the wheel mounted
the stump, over went the wagon.
70 Fearing it would turn entirely over and catch
them under, the two young men took leap into
the mud, and when they lighted they sunk up to
the middle. The young lady was dressed in white,
and as the wagon went over, she sprang as far as
she could, and lighted on all fours her hands
sunk into the mud, up to her arm pits, her mouth
and the whole of her face immersed in the mud
dy water, and she certainly would have strangled
if the young men had not relieved her. As they
helped her up and out, had wheeled my horse
to see the fun. ] rode up to the edge of the
mud, stopped my horse, and shouted at the top
of my voice:
'.Glory to God Glory to God! Hallelujah
Another sinners down! Glory to God Halle
lujah! Glory! Hallelujah!'
If ever mortals felt mean these youngsters did;
and well they might, for they had carried on all
this sport to make light of religion, and to in
suit minister. a total stranger to them. But
they condemned religion, and hated the Metho-
dIsts, especially Methodist preachers. - go pas
When became tired of shouting over them, 1
said to them: f11ea ib gaA gg5trls9 eai 10 s1n.
= SHOW, you poor, dirty, mean sinners, take this
as a just judg gment Of God upon you for your
meanness, and repent of your dreadful wicked
ness and let this be the last time that YOU at
tempt to insult preacher; for if you repeat
your abominable sport, the next time God will
serve you worse, and the devil will get you'll" %