The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-18

T1o put nlB neau OUT OF Gne WluQO"
and said: "No harm done, my
brethering. Just O cretur with a
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 con-
tinued:
"Wcll, my brethering, T will now
try to say what allowed to about
the Presbyterians.
GAS I said before, they raise their
children q heap better than we do.
They behave better in church, and
keep Sunday better, and read the
Bible and larn the catechism better
than ours do. I declare, my breth-
ering, their children are larnt that
Westminster Catechism by the
time they can begin to talk plain.
"It amt three weeks since I was
out cattle huntin', for two Of my
yearlings had strayed off, and L
stopped in at old Brother Harkey's s,
on Mill Greek, and took dinner.
He's O. deacon in the Presbyterian
church over thar. Woll, as true rs
I stand here, my brethering, Sister
Harkey had her little gal standin'
right before her, with toes just
even with crack O. the floor, and her
mouth turned up like O. chicken
when it drinks, and she WAS putin
this question to her out O that
catechism
"'What arc the benefits which in
this life do either accompany or
flow from justification, adoption and
sancti6cation7
"Now, the question itself was
enough to break the child down !;
but when she had to begin in and
say that question all over (for that's
the way it was in the book), and
then hitch the answer to it, which
altogether made this: sThe benefits
which in this life do either accom-
pany or flow from justification,
adoption and sanctitication, are
peace Of conscience, Joy of the
Holy Ghost, increase Of grace, and
perseverance, therein to the ond.'
thought the child was the greatest
wonder I'd ever seen in all my life,
She tuck it through, too, without
balkin' or missin' tho first word, and
she spoke so sweet, and she looked
SO much like little angel, that be-
fore I knowed it the tears were a
running down my checks as big as
buck shot. I've seen the day when
l could have mauled and split a
thousan' rails quicker and easier
than I could have larnt that thing
and said it off like she did.
"Now, MY brethering, that child
didn't understand or know the
meaning of one word O that. It
put me up to all I knew to take it
in myself. But just let that Pres
byterian grow up, and every word
Of that catechism will come back to
her, and her character will stiffen
up under it, and she'll have the
backbone of the matter all her
life.
"Now, I can't put things into my
children that way. Nothin' don t
stay somehow It's like drivin' q
nail into rotten log.
81 tell youj my brethering," he
continued, eff our children had O
little more catechism, and the Pres
byterians a little less, it would be
better for both. Then, we don't
pray in our families like they do.
know thoir prayers are mighty long
they pray all over creation but,
after all, it's the right way. It's
better than prayin' too little.
"Now, my father and mother were
good Blptists, and raised their chill
dren to be honest and Industrious ;
but I never heard one of them pray
in my life, and I was most O grown
man before I ever prayed a prayer
myself, and it was in this wise.
"There was big meetin' over in
Elbert county, and I know'd a
pretty gal over there that T wanted
to see. So I borrowed little Jer-
sey wagin, which was a stylish thing
in them days, and went over to her
house and stayed all night, and en-
gagged her to ride to meetin' with me
next day, which was Sunday.
eve went and had glorious
time-and I might as we'll say right
hero that she was afterwards my
wife; but a comm home L met with
apowerful accident that I never got
over to this day. AS I was comm
down steep hill, some part of the
gearing gave way and let me out OF