Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-30
X, VA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 80, 1876.

easily as If it had been a young kitten
Fac other took warming, and got out
AS rapidly as possible, thongh not
without howing and yelling as if it
had been half killed. He then turned
to the audience, and said, smilingly
est. Paul EXPORTED the brethren to
! "Beware of dogs" / wonder what
he would do if he were in my place
1 this morning. 1t appears like | am
'compassed about with dogs as
David says he was"
He had scarcely commenced preach
ing again before there was terrible
squealing and kicking among the
mules and horses that were tied to
trees close by. He put his head out
of the window, and said: ''No harm
done, my brethren. just a cretul
( with side saddle on has broke loose.
Will some brother head the animal
for no sister can walk home this hot
day
Quiet being restored, he continued :
"Well, my brethren, | will now try
to say what | allowed to about the
Presbyterians.
Gas | said before, they raise their
children heap better than we do.
They behave better in church, and
keep Sunday better, and read the
Bible and learn the Catechism better
than ours do. l declare my brethren.
their children are larnt that West
minister Catechism by the time they
can begin to talk plain.
| sit amt three weeks since I was
out cattle huntin for two of my
yearlins had strayed off; and !
stopped in at old Brother Harkey's ON
| Mud Greek, and took dinner He's a
deacon in the Presbyterian Church
over thar. Well, as true as 1 stand
here, my brethren, Sister Harkey had
her little gal a-standin right before
her, with toes just even with the
crack O the floor, and her hands was
a-hangin down by her side and her
mouth turned up like a chicken when
it drinks, and she was putin this
question to her o that Catechism
"What are the benefits which IN
this life do either accompany or flow
from justification, adoption, and
sanctiicatior?
"Now, the question Itself was
enough to break the child down.
But when she had TO begin ard say
that question all over 0or that's the
way 1t was in the book and then
hitch the answer to it, and which all
put together made this The benefits
which in this life do either accompany
or flow from justification adoption
and qualification are peace of cons
science, joy in the Holy Ghost, inS
crease of grace, and perseverance
therein to the end'--I thought the
child was the greatest wonder I'd
ever seen IN all NY life. She tuck it
right, too, without balkin or missin
the first word. And she spoke so
sweet and she looked so Ike a little
angel that before I know'd it the
tears was a rnnnin down my checks
as big as buck shot. I've seen the
dav when | could have mauled and
split a thousan' rails quicker and
easier than could larnt that thing
and said it off like she did.
| "Now, my brethren, that child
didn't understa nd or know the mean
ing of one word O that. 1t put me
up to all | know to take it in myself
But just let that Presbyterian young
M grown up, and every word of that
Catechism will come back to her, and
her character will stitfen up under her
and she'll have the back bone Of the
matter in her tor life.
.'Now, l can't put things into my
children that way. Nothin don't stay
somehow. It's like driyip a nall into
a rotten log"
This last remark | never forgot
For thirty years afterward, as l
would stand at the blackboard trying
to Xix rules and principles iii the mind
of a dull pupil, with its peculiar per.
tinency.
Il tell you, my brethren" he COM
tinued iii our children had little
more Catechism, and the Presbyterian
a little less, it would he better for
both
"rhen we don't pray in our families
like they do. | know their prayers
are mighty long. and they pray all
ever creation but, after ali. it's the
right way. It's better than prayin
too little
"Now, my father and mother was
good Baptists, and raised their chill
dren to be honest and industrious ;
but | never heard one Of them pray III
my life, and | was most grown man
before | ever prayed prayer myself
and it was Oh this wise:
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