Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-15

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still standing. His ,ricilies, his
vigorous, aggressive serm ms. lis dry
witticisms AID peculiar habits, are vivid
~ rememUered IN his ntighbJrho d. Ills
strange gro:c queLe,s excited curiosity
wherever he went, AMI his entry into a
village was usually hera'dcd 10y a score
Or more of youngsters, who preceded
him crying the news: "IIclc comes old
Dow lie chose the oldest aud seem
ingly most ineligible places for his meet
ings, which were usually held in the
open air. A mammoth stump in a nook
on the verge of forest, an inverted bar
rel under the boughs of an apple orchard,
or rude platform of rough boards at a
country crossroads were the pulpits that
he liked best to occupy. He never lacked
an audience, for the announcement that
"Old Dow" was going to "hold forth" at
certain place, probably six months or a
year from date, never failed to call forth
the country people, from far and wide,
at the appointed time. Dow never broke
an engagement, though some of his ap.
pointments were made several years in
advance and in distant parts of the coun-
try. This strict faithfulness of the
preacher secured the implicit confidence
Of the people. Once, it is said, he ap.
pointed a meeting for certain day and
hour and place, two years in advance, in
q rude village In Virginia. At the desig-
mated time and place the people gathered
and confidently awaited his arrival. At
the expiration of the appointed hour, a
thin, glizzled old man, with long white
beard, and dressed in shabby black suit
and torn straw hat, that tapped it's
broken brim in his face. drove leisurely
up to the gathering. 1t was Dow, pune
tual to moment. He alighted, passed
through the throng without a word,
mounted the platform, and announced
that, "by the grace of God, the meeting
would now be begun"
One morning, recently, I visited the
old home Of the famous preacher. 1t is
in the cleft of the kills in the north west
ern part of the town of Montville-a low,
rambling, two-story, country farm house,
unfolding q corpulent stone chimney and
thrusting out into the stony, sterile pas
ture-land acquisitive ellis and angles.
Tall sycamores on the northern green
sweep the messy roof with their notified
boughs. The southern windows look out
On the dimpled surface of Oxoboxo lake,
not forty rods away. A capacious barn,
with extensive outhouses, on swelling
knoll near by, completes the homestead.
Between the house and barn runs north
ward the open turnpike, which descends
FIRST into the haunted depths of witch
woods" then trails away over the lonely
hills to Colchester village. The old house
is occupied by relatives Of Dow (by mar
riage), who came TO live with his widow
q short time before her death, few Years
ago. Dow was twice married; but he
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shat there's prominent spot round here
that tie I'D msn has no; preached and
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