The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-20
mo, said hei belong to the knee

''NO, said hei 'I belong to the knee
ling order"
They were sharp men. One day
| while DIR. Bostwick was riding along OF
the well-known Methodist horse, maI
rode up, insolently laid his hand on thu
| DOCTORS bride, and said
''I would as soon ride the devil a:
ride this horse.n
Ht!Oh'' said Bostwick, how il would
look to see a child riding his own IA
therT'
The man put spurs to his own steed
and, without word, galloped away
| There was Billy Hubbard, shrewd
powerful in his dealings with the souls
of men, but mighty Arminian.
ttBrother Hubbard, - said CaiVanis-
tic minister to him one day, ''you huri
my feelings in preaching Yesterday
T'Why, brother, how did 1 do that ?
He referred him to some doctrinal
remarks in his discourse.
''Oh ~ said Hubbard, ''I'm sorry you
took that. I meant that for the devil,
and you stepped in and took it your
self. DON'T get between me and the
devil, brother, and you won't get your
feelings hurt"
Like our own famous Dawson, he
would scarcely be known by the more
elegant and euphonious name of Will
lam. When Bishop Asbury was pre-
siding at the roll-call of the COnf0-
ence, he objected answering to that
name, insisting that his QRm was
Billy.
sWhy, brother HibbaTd,u said As
ury, 'fBilly is a little boy's name.n
tsYes, Bishop he said, "and wassa
little boy when my father gave it to
me-"
These men had few books-the BIZ
ble, I4IqTi1l'S Progress, and few such,
in their saddle-bags, formed their whole
library; yet some became great schol-
ars and mastery divines. But the
open pages of the book of Nature We're
before them, and in keen encounters
with men they learned a thousand
things hidden from ordinary eyes and
thus were trained a healtful body, a
well-deveIoped muscular system, large,
strong lungs; q vigorous constitution,
a workshop and dwelling place for q
wise and vigorous mind. How a man
could become a strong preacher and
thinker while ranging those mighty
soiitudes, sleeping in small apart
ments, containing all the family anu
such domestic animals as shared a
backwoOdsmanis fireside,. seems Won
derful. They suffered many persecu-
tions. They had not much TO say of
moral beauty, necessary relations, q
}lfiori and q 1lOSteTiOFi YolitiOnS, and
intellectual processes, and active pow
ers; but it IS said, and we believe it,
they talked of sin so as to make the
flesh creep and the hair stand on end
and they talked of the love Of the Sa-
vioJirand the freedom of His grace, so
as to make tile heart rejoice and tears
come to the eyes Their Intellectual
heraldry was not in their armOr, but in
their muscle; they were not educated
to suppression of their instincts, nor
fOrmalized to slavery of metaphysics
Certainly, they would not have de-
served the censuTe pronounced upon
fiOrid, metaphysical preaeher-OfwhOm
his people, during the week, saw moth
ing-that son six days OF the week he
was invisible, and on the seventh he
was incomprehensit - they
might have reversed of the
Bishop to the youngS " . applied
to him for ordination ''I do not for
bid you to preach, but both Nature and
Grace do.1 Thus, without dwelling at
ssreater length on this subject-Nh hich J
Ee only touched. for the purpose of
Ssto6saIR :. expressing my re-
availed himself Of
ecyiotal material for
5sthe story to the pull
nd-I only again re-
ssion Of the interest of
tx itself BramweIl and Brad
Story, and Saville. Coke, Mather,
Newton and Bunting, Handy, and the
l1lorious hymnOlogist, the Welsh cob
bier, Olivers-such, with a multitude
of other names, are those which pass
before US in those volumes.