Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-03-18
Father Carter.
a Regular "HsrashelP' sesmon,

The Southern Magazine has o
sketch OF Father Carter, q "hard-
shell" Baptist Preacher, whose
youth had been spent in the noun
tains of Carolina, but who was fam.
Gus pre- cher in his persuasion. He
was al enthusiastic on the subj ct OF
Immersion" and beng strong in his
own convictions, earnest and decid-
ed in expressing them, he Influenced
other. lie gathered around him az
disciples men of higher cultivation
than himself His preaching would
astonish any city congregation, but
it was at least stirring in it's charac.
ter. ln the woods and under the
giant trees and in the log schools
houses of California, where he was
brought into contact with minds %
rude and uniformed as his own, il
was that his emotional nature met a
response and carried his audiences
with him. A favorite sermon of his
he called his "eagle" sermon, and
was FRI m a text in Deuteronomy /:
AS an eagle stirreth up her nest,
ddttereth ooer her young, spreadetb
abroad her wings taketh them"
The writer once heard it, and it,
general tenor is indelibly imprinted
on his mind. After long continued
preliminary exercise, he begat
Ny friends, thar is menny kinds OF
eagles. They are singular birds
that il, they is quare birds Thar il
the grey eagle with white hairs on
his head /; there is the bald eagle dit
to, who goes about like roarin lion
seeking what be may eat up Thar
is the grand old American eagle,
what hJps his wings and flies all ov-
er creation and | bev heern tell of a
double hedder, an Austrian, but |
never seed one, and don't believe
thar is one-though that don't signi
fly, fur some of you uDs might say
you hadn't never seed God, conse-
quently thar wurnt none. But thar
Is never heless, Notwithstanding fur
which.
Now [ onct Gnowledged an eagle.
that is, | knowed on him and her
too, fur thar wur two on 'em, T. 3 y
rooster eagle and hen eagie 81
wur in the big mouu.iags Of Catoii
ny; and thar they pitched lleiE
tent in a tall towering pine-right in
the toP-and it hung over a deep
prec;pice, whar it was in danger Of
being participated down the preci-
pice when the loud winds did roar
on CaroiDy's shore" But it wurnt;
fur He calleth bis sheen by name
and they foller him, and the desert
blossoms like rose, and the barre n
are better than them that beareth
nevertheless, nothwith-
staining Tur wnicu.
Wal, these ere eagles pitched their
tent in this waste, bowling wilder
ness, whar they wur as lonely as a
solitary snipe in dog days.
Fust, they got whar there wur
two cross-limbs; then they brought
big sticks, and LAID 'em car fully
round and round until it begun to
look sorter like big balloon careen
ing to the sky, only i was on tree;
when they put in little sticks, and
hitler and liItler, till bimeby it wur
small and compact like Then they
got all the wool and down and moss
and soft things, and put EN- into the
bottom, aud the sides Of it's insides
and make it smooth and warm and
comfortable like.-like unto the man
that filled his barns, and told his
soul to be easy aud take things ma
teraI like-and laid their eggs thar
but fur tho terrible voice That sail
"Fool, this night thy soul shall be"
that is, he war to die that very
night, aud all his nice things wor ldn't
be emmy more use TO him-though
they wurn's hurt, for THAR eggs wur
patched and all u cir young uns
came out with marry single feather
on Observation-Disclosures, notwiJh-
standing fur which.
wal, these eagles and hair young
uns in thair fne home, and bad on
soft clothing like John the Immer-
ser wandering 10 the wilderness, W bar
they wur 10 kings houses and the
big uns fed 'em, as parents feed
their little uns-though thar's a
commandment agn stealing, which
the eagles have TO do, but it's THAR
natur-though that dou't signify, fur
q mans naLur is to steal sumtimes,
and he's got to Fl g agin that natur T;
fur when | would do good evil is
present-and a man amt az eagle
bird by chaDce-nevertheless, not
withdrawing fur which.
When she eagles growed up and
had feathers-that is, when they
came TO the age of couniabilityi
which is expected of boys and girls
hke-though eagles natur is differ
ent-then the old giles waited
them to Hy abroad aud mo9nt up EN-
wings Of eagles, and Jino rue cong
that floats around the throne. Auu
that's " har the text begins for thai
is the way the Father up yOndel
wants US TO do when we roach The
age of couDtsbility-to fly upward
and iine the band in the narrer way
and pass through the strait gate
But they didn't like to leave hons
aud THAR kindred and THAR parents
and seek a country like unto th'
good old Abraham
''whar oh whar 10 the good old Al shsm
| Whsr, or whsris th- good old Abraham
Whsr, oh vhsr 10 the god cid All. shamf
Sale In the promised iand'
The old eagle goes off and "fntter
eth over her Dung" and that bring
Us 10 the second pint OF our dis
course. 'She futtereth", she flop
her wins s, like unto as you bav,
seen q hawr just Citing resdy t
pounce down upon poor ieI'
mouse-tht ugh it sin; like tha
either the hawk futters in wrath