The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-08-27

lived during the days OF the Revolr
tion in America, and being called OIL t
pray on some great public occasion
he delivered himself of the followin,
petition: 80 Lord, have mercy OF
the sovereigns of Europe; conver
their souls; give them short live
s and happy deaths; take them t.
heaven, and let us have no more O
them" Sometimes the bitter 90
bitten. When he lived at Lewiston
he came frequently into contact will
a Catholic priest, not much behint
him in the use Of edged tools. II,
met the priest one day-not as usual
on horseback, but trndging On foot
said Kruber, "Where's your horse
why don't you ride?''' "Oh," saiG
the other, rather testify, ''the beasts
dead - dead well, suppose ht
is in purgatoryT' "Nay, the wretch
ed creature turned Methodist just
before he died, and went straight to
hell +" Old Kruber was greatly
averse to read sermons, for even il
those days there were readers OF ser
mons in the pulpit. Once n youth.
iul Congregational minister read be
fore him; Jacob also had to follow
the man in preaching, and it WAS ex-
pected he would give the young
brother thrust for the use of his
notes. He finished, however, without
saying word that looked toward
the manuscript; but in his conelud-
ing prayer lie uttered these strange
petitions Lord, bless the young
man who has read to us today; let
his heart be as soft as his head, and
then he will do us some good
'llow do you make your preach
ers ~ was once said TO one of these
line old preachers of the woods -
why, we old ones tell the youn.
ones ali We know, aud they try to tell
the people all they can, and they keep
on trying I'LL they can-thats our
college" cnc was asked, "Do you
belong to the standing order p
No he said; 81 belong TO the
kneeIing order They wefe sharp
men. One day, while Dr. snostwick
was riding along Oh the well known
Methodist horse, a man rode up,
insOlently laid his hand on the doe
tors bride, and said: II would as
soon ride the devil as ride tbs horse. -
"Oh !" said Bostwick, show it would
look TO see a child riding his own
father" The man put spurs 20 his
own steed, and, without word, gal
lOped away. There was Billy Hib
bard, shrewd, powerful in his deal
ings with the souls of men, but a
mighty Arminian, Brother Hib
bard" said Calvinistic minister to
him one day, 'yOu hurt my feelings
in preaching yesterday "Why,
brother, how did | 10 that p lie
referred him to some doctrinal re
mark in his discourse. "Oh ~ said
Hibbard, "Pm sorry you took that.
| meant that for the devil, and you
stepped in and took it yourself
don't get between me and the devil,
brother, and you won't get your feel
ings hurt - Like our own famous
Dawson, he would scarcely be known
by the more elegant and euphonious
name OF William when Bishop AS
bury was presiding at the roll call
of the conference, he objected an
swering to that name, insisting that
his name was Billy. "Why, brother
said Asbury, Chilly is a
little boys name.' Yes, bishop"
he said, "and | was a little boy when
my father gave it me-" These men
had few bOoks-the Bible, Pilgrim S
Progress and few such, in their sad
die bags, formed their whole library;
yet some became great scholars and
divines- But the open
pages of the book of Nature were
before them, and in keen encounters
with men they learned a thousand
things hidden from ordinary eyes
and thus were trained healthful
body, well-developed muscular
system, large, strong lungs; a vigor-
GUS constitution, workshop and
dwelling place for a wise and vigor-
Gus mind. How aman could become
a strong preacher and thinker while
ranging those mighty solitudes,
sleeping in small apartments, con-
tanning all the family and such do
mestic animals as shared q back
woodsman's fireside, seems wonder
ful. They suffered many perseeu- !!
lions, They had not much to say Oft
moral beauty, necessary relations, a
priOrt and posteriOTi v0lItiens, and ;
intellectual processes, and active
powers; but 1T is said, and we believe
1t, they talked of sin SD rs to make
the flesh creep and the hair stand On
end and they talked OF The love OF
the Savior and the freedom of His
grace, so as to make the heart re-
jOice and tears come to the eyes,
Their intellectual heraldry was not in
their armor, but in their muscle; I
they were not educated to "a sup
preston of their instincts, nor for
malized to slavery of metaphysics
Certainly, they would not have de
served tie censure pronounced upon
fiorid, metaphysical preacher-of
whom his people, during the week,
saw nothing--that ION six days of
the week no was invisible, and on the
seventh he was incOmprehensible -
and they might have reversed the
remark of the bishop to the young
man who applied to him for ordina-
ton: Il do not forbid you to preach,
but both Nature and Grace do.''-l
Thus, without dwelling at greater
length on this subject-which l have |
only touched for the purpose OF in
PRODUCING DIR. Stevens completed
work to you, while expressing my
regret that he has not availed himself
of the wealth of anecdotal material
for the continuation of the story to |
the pulpit of his own land-I only |
again renew my expression of the
interest of the work itself. Bran
well and Bradshaw, Story and Sa
vile, Coke, Mather, Newton and
Bunting, Handy, and the glorious
hymnologist, the Welsh cobbler,
Olivers-such, with a multitude OF
other names, are those which pass
before US in those volumes.
We had related to US the other day
an aneedote of an old woman who