Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16

EDTToRs CHRONIcLE:-I wish TO
say few words in your valued
paper-not for contention, but to
ease my guilty conscience. 1 feel
hound to answer, in part, the article
in the CHRONICLE Of the ID inst,
signed Douglass" not that / can
excuse any body, but / feel like he
was hitting at me as well as Jack
Holloway, just like / do when the
preachers get right after their con-
gregatiOns. Bro. w. remarked,
during a sermon recently, when the
house was crowded and the day
warm, that, ''the atmosphere is so
sultry / fear il viii be hard for you
to keepawake," and / thought he
spoke to me, so 1 told my wife /
couldn't finish my nap that day.
On the Saturday Of a quarterly
meeting, not MORN a. dozen miles
from GAINESVILLE, where there were
not enough members out to take the
preachers home to dinner, it was
right down hard for them to be
compelled to go down in town and
buy their dinner.
Whenever j am mt church there
are always two or three up at the
pulpit to ask the preacher home
with them before / can get there
besides, i don't always tell my wife
before leave that i am going to
bring the preacher home with me
and no preparation be made.
L never was much of a hand TO
ask visits; but when l do ask the
preacher, and he says he viii come
the first chance, then the next time
/ see him he rides by the house
going to the post-ofiice, and then
back home, gets his gun and goes
squirrel hunting, / begin to think
he don't want to come.
L believe Baxter said ''a house
going pastor makes a ehurch-going
people :" and 1 believe it, too, for
Bro. Mack, who / once knew,
would sometimes pleasantly visit
half a dozen families in day, and
generally pays each family in his
charge two visits a month, and
those who did not like Bro Mack
were not liked by anybody else.
To show that he would visit, L will
relate this anecdOte: He was re-
turning nome late one night from
marrying belated couple, and con-
Guided he would stop at Mr.. Gains
till day. Having put his horse in
the stable, to avoid disturbing the
family, he started to the house,
when the dogs freed him up on the
gate post. Tho lady of the house
being awakened by the noise went
to the door and Kissed the dogs on.
Bro. NJ. called out, "this is Bro.
. Mack; call your dogs off and let me
in" but Mrs. G., not recognizing
his voice, said: "that won't do;
Jim's been lnosing his corn lately
and never could find out who got
it ; take him, Dash ~ Finally he
made himself known, and Mr.. G.
invited him in. After apologies all
around, he got a refreshing sleep
and a good breakfast next morning.
When Bro. Mack visits family he
attends TO his horse If necessary,
never letting it stand up all day
without water.
When ] come in from work and
find parsons horse hitched up in
the sun by the gate, ! know Bro.
Shy is in the house. He rides Is
miles once a month to his appoint
ment and never feeds or waters his
horse for fear he is not welcome.
| mention this to show that Bro.
Shy is ON one extreme and Jack
Holloway and l on the other.
When read the article referred to,
/ resolved to get off my end of the
extreme, and told my wife ] was
going to bring the preacher home
with me next time. and she said
she thought 1 ought, for there had
not been one TO our house in a long
time. Since | come to think about
II | believe il is so. JAFTER.