Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-08-30
A Ministerial Ramble.
To the Standard.

run the risk any way. Leaving Nc
Minnville on the l o'clock p. M, train
Saturday the 9th inst, went to Tul-
lahoma, where on Sabbath / preached
twice to good congregations, and or
dained two Ruling Elders in the church
recently organized at that place. Mon
day was spent in tour of visitation,
ard in the evening myself and party
went out to Cascade Springs, five miles
from Tullahoma. These Springs are
justly popular. The scenery is beauti-
full, the fare good, and the water-con-
sisting of several kinds Of sulphur, cha.
lybeate, alum, EPSON, and pure free
stone-is excellent for medicinal pur>
poses. Thursday | babe adieu to
"mine frou," and set out for Nashville,
which found hot and dusty as usual
Here | attended prayer meeting at my
former church, and after spending the
night with an old friend, came on to
this point, via Louisville.
Upon reaching Mt. Sterling l found
several of my classmates already at the
hospitable home of DIR. Guerrant, the
nestor of the class, and one of the most
wonderful men | have ever known.
He is little black-eyed, wiry, nervous
Frenchman, frail and delicate, but OF
indomitable will and tireless energy.
He was formerly physician, and gave
up practice that brought him five
thousand dollars year in order that
he might preach the gospel. Such
man is bound to succeed, and so we
find him adding multitudes to the
church, Within two years and a half,
as Evangelist of the Synod of Kentucky
he has added seventeen hundred to the
Presbyterian church alone, besides
many who have joined other churches.
He has organized fifteen or twenty new
churches, and from these churches
gathered ten or fifteen students for the
ministry. He and his excellent wife
leave nothing undone that will minister
to our enjoyment.
During the day we drive eight miles
into the country and preach at an old
historic church organized nearly GEN.
fury ago. There the breckenridge
and other intellectual giants of past
generation used to preach, and within
the adjoining cemetery slumbers the
dust of fully five hundred of those who
formerly worshipped within its walls.
Yesterday we celebrated the sacrament
of the Lords supper, and you may i'm
agine the the pleasure it gave the class
to set together amid such sweet and
solemn scenes after a separation of nine
years, as well as the pleasure we re.
ceive from hearing each other preach,
In the evening we return to DR.. Guer>
rants house and spend the time in re-
viewing the past, reading memorials of
our dead, and discussing subjects of
practical Importance in our work. Our
reunion will thus, l hope, not only be
pleasant but very profitable. The class
originally consisted Of twenty>six mem.
bers, and was graduated from Union
Theological Seminary, Va, April 18th,
1875. Four of our members have
been "called up higher" into the opal
ace of the King" The remaining
twenty-five are a noble, consecrated
band of men, and the most of them
excellent preachers. A class associa-
ton has been organized, with DIR.
Guerrant as President, and myself as
Secretary and Historian. Five years
hence, August 1889, the class will hold
another reunion at Point Burnside, on
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
This evening we attend a large sale
of Shorthorn cattle. This is the coun.
try for fine horses and fat cattle. Just
now the land is parched by drouth and
the grass looks pretty dry, but the cat
tie are fat. This is also a great tobac.
co country, and am told that farmers
sometimes realize as much as four hum
bred dollars per acre from their tobac,
co crop. Mt. Sterling is busy, grow.
ing place of three or four thousand
inhabitants, surrounded by beautiful.
fertile country. Saturday l saw a
typical Kentucky court day, and the