The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-05
From the North Side or Cumberland
River.

| River.
To the Editors Of the Herald and MaI:
Have you ever observed, when Meth
| Odist preachers are called to Con ference
| once a year, that they are sometimes
| made to change sides like a weaver's
shuttle? Well, it's that way. Two
years ago, while we were all sitting be-
| fore Bishep McTyeire waiting for our
lines all to fall in pleasant places, mine
| did truly fall there. / received the plan
| of a work, known then as the Pisgah
| and Hampshire Circuit, but now known
rs the Pisgah and Hampshire Station.
God bless and prosper the Station till it
shall become one where Jesus dwells in
the fullness of his power! Never was
more Openhearted kindness and liberal
ity lavished upon an inexperienced
youth, than the people of Pisgah and
Hampshire Circuit bestowed upon the
undersigned. II you will allow me to
deal in honest facts, will state, that
by their many deeds of kindness they
have, as people, endeared themselves
to me very much. Oh that 1 were per-
mitted to call the names Of some, who
said to me at first, while / was yet
stranger, Brother Duncan, come now
just when you feel disposed, and make
my house yO1tr home, as long as you
please" do not know their names,
for they are written in the "sealed book
which none but the Lamb which stitch
upon the Throne, can OPEN" Neither
can those names, as they are imprinted
upon my heart, be expressed in words
now known to men. ILoUe them.
But L thought l would give you some
idea of affairs in Stewart county. My
present Circuit borders along on the
Cumberland River, opposite Dover, the
county seat, and from Dover, North,
twenty miles; eight appointments for
preaching. l am glad to say that this
(Salem) Circuit, with which Bishop
Marvin has hOnored me, Is among an
intellectual, kind, industrious people.
Crops in this section are exceedingly
limited. Corn light, no tobacco, (which
is their staple), wheat an average crop.
Many, many families will absolutely
suffer. However, a meeting Of the citi-
zens of this county was held last Saturs
day, Feb. Goth, in the town of Dover, tho
the object which was to "procure means
for the relief of those distressed by hum
ger and want" There are, perhaps as
many iron-works in this county as any
in the State; but several, which had run
regularly for years, ceased running last
Christmas, because of pressing times.
Business of every kind is at a low ebb
indeed; starving and stealing are ru-
mOrs common In the conversational ats
moshpere. "God is greatly to be feared. :"
What desolatiOn His hand can make in
one switt-revolYing year! Ahi now the
'iron~snorter" has hurried me into
Nashville, not stopping to notice the
emaciated hundreds upon her streets,
who live l know not how let US open
that ponderous door of the Southern
Methodist Publishing House, Well, in
such warm house, filled with the
| choicest literature known in this west
| ern country, where business 10 conducts
ed in harmonious decorum, one who
bad an hour to spare, would be likely to
| gather good book treating upon some
subject about which he had been long
| perplexed, and begin to devour it.
But you see noted, noble men always
attract the attention Of boys of less fame
Instance: Bishop McTyeire, Drs. Sum-
mers, McFerrin, Redford, Young, Ham
| iltOn: also Bro, John P. MeFerrin, fresh
| from Missouri. He looks we'll. learn
| ed he was sent for to marry some cou-
| pies at GAINESVILLE. JOHN T. DUNCAN.
Dover, Feb. I'D.