Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-01-14

lSOpeTs rs IL luSTS were SoHlc WANTS ~ ~
mind or stc1.aci Which required immedi
ate satisfaction. Col. Allen thus address
ed him
! "Ah, Elder, I am glad TO see you-yot
seem little the worse for the wear o
time. How is your good woman and child
REM Get off and lei my man t Ike your
horse to the barn; he looks as if good hay
and oats would not offend him."
81 thank you Col. Allen" replied the
EIeer. "Firstly, as to my wife end fami-
lily, they are, by Divine favor, as well as u
sual: and secondly, | come to see you,
Col. Allen, upon matters Of Importance as
10 the spiritual interests Of my people
We want to build house for Gad's child
rem, and CONS for assistance # m. r
ny church are few and feeble"
"WelE, we'll" says Allen, & | must 90
into the field with my hands; my man will
take your horse to the barn, where good
hay and cats will be bis company, and you
90 directly into the house, where my wife
will take good care Of you, and you must
make up your mind 10 stsg until morning,
and well settle the matters about the
ueeting- house after tea to night" The
man took the horse 70 the barn. The
Elder went into the house, to the great
Joy of Mrs. Allen, and the colonel with
his hands to laborin the field. Mrs. AL
len supplied the good Elder with ablnd-
ance Of choice nourishnent for the BODY,
ard he gave the most acceptable food for
hope, and thus the afternoon passed.
At early eve, the Colonel returned with
his fellow laborers. ard after supper, re-
tired with the Elder into room by them
selves, and talked over the meeting house
business. 1t was soon agreed that Elder
Aminidab Robinson and bis people should
have meeting house, and that Col. Allen
was TO furnish $40 worth of glass and nails,
pay $40 in cash, and, as he owned tim
Der lot and saw-raill in the Elders town,
to turn out his hands and team next win
tci, help cut and heul the timber to the
mill for frame and boards, have them
"stuck up" and seasoned, that the house
might be framed, yaised and finished IN
good time the coming Spring and summer
All Of which having been satisfactorily adj
iusted, about nine o'clock, the family were
assembled by request Of Mrs, Allen, to join
in PRAYER with the Elder. The prayer was
Hong, but very acceptable TO all but Col
Allen, his maxim being ''short prayers and
long puddings," fouudsd upon the faith
lthat God knows as much more about what
we really stand in need Of, than we dc
ourselves, as infuite is before finite, or the
mother before the new born babe,
/ Soon after, the Elder was shown to hli
chamber; but in consequences Of an unusu
lally full stomach, and the tleeting fairy
visions Of the new meeting house, he die
mot fall so quietly into the arms of Nor
lpheus as usual. 1t occurred to the Elder
10 his wakefulness during the night, that
| if Col. Allen, generous and liberal as he
was, had have united himself as one among
the many christian churches and had Civ
en- the great aggregate to one, how sensi-
! bly, they must have felt that great blessing
Il also, in the multitude of his ideas occur
red to him that it might be his duty, IN
conjunction with Mrs. Allen, TO labor
prayerfully with the Colonel to join his
church, and to open his contribution bo&
solely for their benefit. Full of these sol
emn reflections, herring some one stirring
about the house, he rose in season to JOIN
Col. Allen. in welcoming the first signs
from the East of approaching day. After
the usual salutat;ops of "good morning -
I"You rise ealIy," "and SO do you, sir" BY
way Of reply, DC, &c. the following dIa-
logue was commenced and carried through
between them. In substance il is no tic-
ton. It is sounded on fact, and is one Of
the sources from, whence ingraiitude and
pharasaic bigotry have drawn their infer
enees that the patriot ands philanthropist,
Ethan Allen, was an atheist and and infi-
DIAL.
Elder Robinson-aCol Allen, in yias :
ofyour numerous donations 10 various chris
tian, Societies, and the spirit you have
manifested in opening your house for the
pilgrims tavern for the gratuitous refresh
ment of the ministers of all denominations
end freely aiding in the b8ildirg Of tenn
pies to God, it has occurred to me
dDring my prayerful contemplation tho
past hight, what great blessing you wo'd
have been to any society, had you in early
life identified yourself with it,and confined
your efforts to that alone. God hes made
you his steward for much, as | trust for
the benefit Of bis people, and my prayers
will ascend to the throne Of grace and
mercy, that you may be speedily brought
to feel this, even COW in yonr time of
life. to be your duty and to act accord
Ingly."
Coz. ALLEN" Oh, Elder, as for that
you had better not pray at all, for my
God will not think the better of you for
so doing. As for myself, take my word
for it, shall never be whitfield down Of
meanness and misanthropy by any power
Oh earth or any where else. fought for
liberty and eq@ality as to the rights Of my
whole countrymen, not part. Gods
rain descends upon all, am bis mercies are
over all bis works, not part--no mo1op-
oIies or special privileges. He that well
does, well is; and Gods parental goodness
extends to all bis children"
ELDER r. -"Well, Colonel, in one sense
= an aro rirbf II seems Won believe