Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-24
Miseellaneuns.
FATHER CARTER.

REGULAR "HARD-sHELL" SERMON.
The Southern Magazine has sketch of
Father Carter, "hard-shell' Baptist
preacher, whose youth had been spent in
the mountains of Carolina, but who was
famous preacher in his persuasion. He
was an enthusiast on the subject OF "im-
mersion." and being strong in his own
convictions, earnest and decided in ex-
pressing them, he influenced others. He
gathered around him as disciples men of
higher cultivation than himself. His
preaching would astonish any city congre-
CATION, but it was at least stirring in its
character. In the woods and under the
giant trees and in the log schoolhouses OF
California. where he was brought into
contact with minds as rude and unin-
formed as his own, it was that his emo
tlonal nature met a response and carried
his audiences with him. A favorite SER
mon of his he called his "eagle" sermon,
and was from a text in Deuteronomy, "As
an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her
wings, taketh them" The writer once
heard it, and its general tenor is indelibly
imprinted on his mind. After q long con-
tinued preliminary exercise he began
My friends. thar is menny kinds of
eagles. Thar is the gray eagle, with
white hars on his head; there is the
bald eagle ditto, who goes about like a
roarin' lion, seeking what he may eat up.
Thar is the grand old American eagle,
who ilops his wings and flies over all Gre
alton; and | hev, heern tell of double
hedder, an Austrian, but | never seed one,
and dontt believe thar is one-though
that don't signify, fur some of you uns
might say you had MT never seed God,
consequently thar wurnt none. But thar
is nevertheless, notwithstanding fur which.
Now l onct knowed an eagle-that is, l
knowed on him-and her too, for thar wur
too on 'em, big rooster eagle and hen
eagle. 1t wur in the big mountings of
Caroliny; and thar they pitched their tents
in tall and towering pine-right in the
top-and it hung over deep precipice,
whar it wur in danger of being parcipitat-
ed down the precipice when the loud
winds did roar on Caroliny's shore But
it wurnt; fur He ealleth his sheep by
name, and they foller Him, and the desert
blossoms like a rose, and the barren are
better than them that beareth children
revtheless, Notwithstanding fur which.
Wall, these here eagles pitched their
tents in this waste, bowling wilderness,
whar they wur as lonely as solitary snipe
in dog days.
Fust. they got whar there wur two cross
limbs, then they brought big sticks, and
laid 'em carefully round and round until it
begun to look sorter like a big balloon ca
reening to the sky, only it was on tree ;
then they put in it littlcr sticks, and hitler
and Iittler, till bimeby it wur small and
compact like. Then they got all the wool
and down and moss and soft things. and
put 'em down into the bottom and on the
sides OF lis insides, and made it smooth
and warm and comfortable like-like unto
the man that filled his barn and told his
soul 10 be easy and take things material like
-and laid their eggs thar-but for the
terrible voice that said, Fool this night
thy soul shall be"--that is, he wur to die
that very night. and all his nice things
wouldn't be emmy more use to him-though
they wurn't hurt, fur THAR eggs were
hatched and all their young uns came out
with marry a single feather on then,--nev-
ertheless. Notwithstanding fur which.
Wall, these eagles and THAR young uns
wur in THAR fine home, and had on soft cloth
ing like John the Immerser wandering in
the wilderness. whar they wur in kings
houses-and the big ones fed 'em. rs pari-
ents feed THAR little ones-though thar's a
commandment agn stealing. which the
eagles have to do, but it's their natnr-
though that don't signify, fur mans na-
tur is TO steal sumtimes, and he's got to
fite agin that natur; fur when would do
good, evil is present-and man amt an
eagle bird by chance-nevertheless, not
withstanding fur which.
When the eagles growed up and had
feathers-that is, when they came to the
age of countability, which is expected of
boys and girls like-though eagles natur
is different then the old eagles wanted
them to fly abroad and mount up on wings
of eagles, and .jine the song that floats
around the throne. And that's whar the text
begins. fur that's the way the Father up
yonder wants us to do when we reach the
age of cOuntability-to fly upward-to fly
upward and jine the band in the narrer
way, and pass through the strait gate.
But they didn't like to leave home and
THAR kindred and THAR parents, and seek
country like unto the good old Abra-
ham
'Whar, oh whar is the good old Abraham?
Whar, oh whar is the good old Abraham?
Whar, oh whar is the good old Abraham?
Safe in the promised landp
The old eagle goes off and hutteretf
over her young. and that brings us to the
second pint of our discourse. She fiutter
eth, she tlops her wings, like unto as you
have seen a hawk just Citing ready tc
lpounce down upon poor field mouse
though it aint like that neither, for the
hawk flutters in wrath, but the eagle f1ut-
tiers over her young uns lin love. Breth'
rem and sisters, she flutters in love Just like
when you see your dear little ones tread
ing Of the downward path, and your heart
nuttcrs and hutters because you're afraid
and she goes above the nest and hollars
squawk-which when You holler you
means to tell 'em to take keer, take keer
only the birds talk is not like unto our
falkland they hear that voice, and creep
onto the sides of the nest, and see THAR
fond parents Topping of their wings, and
cry With THAR little beeked voice peck
which means father dear and mother dear
I like to foller you-tur
ppm bound fur the land of Canaan
I'm bound fur the land of Canaan!
Pm bound fur the land of Canaanl
| Fur Ia m happy hOme.v