Middletown transcript., 1873-08-16
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THE CIRCUIT PREACHER.
nv GEORGE AlYREp TOWNSEND

His thin wifes cheek grows punched and pale
with anxiousasss intense;
lie sees the brethrens prayerful eyes o'er all the
Conference
lie hears the Bishop slowly call the long Ap-
pointmeut" rolls,
Where, In his vineyard, God would place these
gathercrs OF souls.
Apart, austere, the kno, Of grim Presiding II
ders sit:
lie wonders IL some city "Charge' may no, for
him have writ;
Csr.es, could they his sermon hear on Paul and
Luke awrcck,
Then had his ,aleu, nee been hid on Annome-
six Neck
Poor, rugged hear, be still while, and you,
worn wife. be meek
Two ycars Of banishmcnt they read, far down
the Chesapeake.
Though Brother BATES, less eloquent, by Will
mington IL woocd,
The Lord that counts the sparrows fall shall iced
his little brood.
'Checr up, mr. girl here's Brother Riggs our
Crcui, knows will please
lie raised three hundred dollars there besides the
marriage fees
What tears from us, who preached the word
these thirty Years or So
Two years on barren Chacotcague and two in
Tuckahoc?
"The schools arc good thr Brethren say, and ou'
church holds the wheel
The Presby ,crians lost their house, the Bsptsts
lost their zeal;
The parsonage ia clean and dry, the towu has
friendly folk
Not half so dull as Rehobo,h nor proud like Po-
comoke.
oh, thy jus, will. our Lord be dsuc, though these
eight seasons mora
We see our ague-erippled boys pine on the Eas-
tern Shore.
While We, thy stewards, journey out our dedi-
Gated years
Mid fores,ers OF Naniicokc, or heather Of Tan
eiers
nyss, some mus, serve on Gods frontiers, and
shall fall periorce,
To SOW upon some better ground my most select
Al Sassatras, or Smyrna, preach my argument
on brink
My series on the Prp,aench ut Appoauuimink.
"Grsy am |, Bre,hrss, in the work, though
tough TO bear my part,
II 10 these dropping little ones that sometimes
wiring my heart.
And ches, me with the vain eoaeeit the clever
ness is mine
To all the churches Of the Elk, aud pass ID.
Brandywiue.
aThrse hnirs were brown, when, full of hare
en-, ring these holy lists,
Proud Of nv Order as kntght--ihc shouting
Meihodists-
I made the pine woods ring with hymns, will
PRAYER the night-wnds shook
AeA pr.aci,ed from Assawaman Light far nortl
ae bombay Hook
,.My nag was gray, my gig Eas new fast wen
the sandy miles;
The eldest Trustees gave me praise, the ia'ses
sisters smiles,
Still recall how Elder Smith Of worten Height
Ayerrsd
n, Atsettolic Parallels The best he ever heard.
.iAll Winter long rode the SHOWS, rejoicing e'
my way
At midnight our Revival by1,as rolled Ger th
sobhng bay;
Three Sabbath sermons, every week, should hr
man OF brass-
And still our fcrven, membership must hass ihei
extra Class
Aggressive with the zeal Of youth, IN many
terrified lmmersionisu, aad seoursed ,he Mi
But larger, ,enderer charities such vain debate
supplaut,
When The dear wife, saved by my zeal, loved til
l,inerapt.
me cooling dove. of fssafms afsa.sl. she share
my lifs,s distress,
4 singing Miriam, always In Gods poor wilder
ness;
The wrc,ehcd a, her ooisiep smiled, The triys
lous were still
4 bright pa,h marked her pilgrimage, fro
Biackbird 10 Snowhill.