The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-04-18
FATHER CARTER.
4 Regular ''Hard-shell'' Sermon.

The Southern Magazine has u
sketch of Father Carter, a "hard-
shelf Baptist preacher, whose
youth had been spent in the noun
tvins Of Carolina, but who was a
famous preacher in his persuasion.
He was an enthusiast on the sub
ject of Immersion and being
strong in his own convictions,
earnest and decided in expressing
them, he influenced others. He
gathered around him as disciples
men of higher cultivation than
himself. His preaching would as
tonish any city congregation, but
it was at least stirring in it's char
acter. In the woods and under
the giant trees and in the log
| school houses of Carolina, where
he was brought into contact with
minds as rude and as uniformed as
| his own, it was that his emotional
nature met q response and carried
his audiences with him. A favor
itc sermon of his he called his
''eagle" sermon, and was from a
text in Deuteronomy: "As an
eagle stirreth up her nest, hutter-
eth over her young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them"
The writer once heard it, and it's
general tenor is indelibly imprint
ed on his mind. After a long con-
tinued preliminary exercise he be-
gan:
Ny friends, thar is menny kinds
of eagles. They are singular birds
that is, they is quar- birds. Thar
is the gray eagle with white bars
on his head; thar is the bald eagle
ditto, who goes about like 4 roar
in lion, seeking what he may eat
up. Thar is the grand old Ameri-
can eagle, what fiops his wings and
flies all over creation; and / have
heern tell of a double hedder, an
Austrian, but l never seed one,
and don't believe there is one
though that don't signify, fur sum
of you uns might say you hadn't
never seed God, consequently thar
wurn't none. But thar is, never
the less, Notwithstanding fur
which.
Fnst, they got whar there war
two cross-limbs; then they brought
big sticks and laid 'em carefully
round and round until it began to
look sorter like a big balloon ca
reening up to the sky, only it was
on tree; then they put in hitler
sticks, and hitler and hitler, till
bimeby it was small and compact
like. Then they got all the wool
and down and moss and soft things,
and put 'en down into the bottom,
and on the sides of its insides, ard
made it smooth and warm and
comfortable like-like unto the
man that filed his barns, and told
his soul to be easy and take things
easy and natural like-and laid
theie eggs thar-bnt for the terri
BILE voice that said: Fool, this
night thy soul shall be''-tlat is,
he war to die that very night, and
all his nice things wouldn't be en-
ny more use to him-though they
wurn't hurt, fur their eggs war
Matched, and all their young ones
come out with marry a feather on
Observation-Disclosures, notwithstand-
ing fur which.
Now, / onct knowed an eagle
that is, / knowed on him--and her,
too, fur thar war two on 'em, 4
big rooster eagle and = hen eagle.
, It wur in the big mountings OF
Carliny; and thar they pitched
their tents in a tall and towering
/ pine-right in the top-and ii
r hung over deep precipice, whar
, it wuar in danger of being partic.
ip2ted down the precipice, when
s'the loud winds did roar on Caro-
liny's shore" But it wurn't; fol-
he calleth his sheep by name and
: they foiler him, and the barren are
better than them that bareth chill
Observation-Disclosures, notwithstand
4 ing fui which.
|, Wal, these here eagles pitched
= their tent in this waste, howlin.
e wilderness, whar they wur as lone
: ly as solitary snipe in dog days
Wal, these eagles and their young
uns in their fine home, and has
on soft clothing like John the I'm
8 merser wandering in the wilder
: ness, where they Eur in king
houses-and the big uns fed 'er
z as parents feed their little uns
8 though thar's a commanded agai
o stealing, which the eagles have t
i do, but its their natur, though tina
don't signify, fur a mans natur j
e to steal sometimes, and he's got b
!. fite agin that natur; for when
!. would do good, evil is present.
and a man amt an eagle bird BIZ
- chance-neverthcless, notwitE
:, standing fur which.
2, When the eagles growed up an
N had feathers-that is, when the
ID came te the age of countahilit,
which IS expected of boys an