The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-24
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a camp.meeting held at c., there was
young doctor whom Mr.. Dannelly hat
known from infancy, who had just re
turned from Charleston with q diplomi
as A physician. During a service a
which Mr.. Dannelly oficiated, the young
doctor did not behave we'll, and the
preacher, true to hisinstincts, pronounced
in his own way scathing rebuke. Thi'
enraged the disciple Of Esculapius, wht
determined at once to be revenged. Pro
curing a rattan walking cane he ap
preached the preachers tent whirlinG
the instrument in his hand, and inquired
at the door for Mr.. Dannelly. He wal
pointed to the back part of the long darl
building to bed, where the exhausted
preacher lay painting and putting from
extreme heat and fatigue. Approaching
the bedside be demanded in loud and
imperious tone: "Did you mean me, sir
in the offensive remarks you made from
the pulpit" The preacher, raising ul
on his elbow, responds with his shril
voice, now rendered much keener by a
certain nasal twang: "You, B.. mean
you! Why, if I had little cut.tail
snub.nose Gee, and he Was to bark at
such fellow as you, B., would knock
him in the head and kill him. l never
notice such trash as you, B." B. evapo'
rated.
MIR. Dannelly had 9 great dislike to
anything which savored of pretence, and
usually dealt with it roughly, as the fol-
lowing incident will show:
A certain methodist sister, of large
wealth and equal ostentation, had for
three years been very urgent in her in.
vitations for Mr.. Dannelly to visit her,
and spend some time at her house, but
as she lived out of the line of his usual
travel, he had failed to do so. To crafty
the hospitality of the sister, he sent an
appointment to church in the neighbor-
hood. and on Saturday rode 80 as to
spend the night at her house, but un-
fortunately was taken quite sick on the
way, but finally reached the place quite
indisposed. The lady came out with
unusual demonstrations of hospitality,
exclaiming a. she approached, "Alight
and come in, dear Brother Dannelly. 1
am 80 glad to see you Come in" His
only response was: "1'm sick. I'm sick.
T want nothing but bed"
"Yes, Brother Dannelly, you shall
have bed. Come in this room and
make yourself as comfortable as possible,
and will 20 out and attend to few
household duties" :.
The sick preacher was soon in bed,
when his acute ears caught the following,
uttered in loud whisper: "You lazy
heifer, why do you not hurry! Don't
YOU know that Mr. Dannelly is here, and
nothing done?" She takes her exit to
the yard, but is soon back in the same
adjoining room, when the same loud
whisper arrests the preachers ear: "Why
don't you hurry up, you black wret96.
/ tell you Dannelly is here. Ii you don't
hurry III break your head" Out again
she goes. After a while she returns.
"Hurry up, I say, black devil; old Dan
nelly is here, and I can't get you to do
single thing"
Next morning the preacher is better.
The elabofately silver-mounted carriage
stands beside the rickety old buggy, and
a few miles make the church. The con-
gregation is large. The pious hostess,
splendidly attired, sits Immediately in
front Of the pulpit. The preacher an
nounces his text "The heart of man is
deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked who can know it"
The speaker, as was his wont, having
read his text, pauses and looks all over
the congregation. "The prophet must
have meant women as we'll az men," Then
he makes one of his emphatic gruuts and
long pauses. "Now here sits before me
sister L., who, for the past three years,
has been urging me to come and see her,
I sent this appointment, and got there
Yesterday sick. She was delighted to see
me-calied me dear brother Dannelly. l
told her was sick, and needed nothing
but bed. She then, in hurrying up the
servant, called me Brother Dannelly. In
the course of the evening, irritated with
the slow movements of the servant, she
abused her and asked her if she did not
know that Mr.. Dannelly was there.
Still more excited, she. said Dannel2y;
and finally, in rage, said Old Dannelly,-
and at the same time calling her black
devil. First was dear Brother Dannelly,
then Brother Dannelly, then mfr. Dan.
nelly, then Dannelly, and finally Old
Dannelly." The preacher continued:
"I'd rather be stray hound without an
owner and running round at night to get
nv living, and have an honest heart,
than to glitter in gold, satin, and silks
with such hypocrisy" The hospitable
sister wilted under the rebuke.
At a camp.meeting at B., young
sprig of lawyer failing to observe the
proprieties of the occasion, was publicly
reproved by Mr.. Dannelly, and deter
mined at once to raise quarrel with him
80 as to get a chance to ''cuss" the
preacher, as he expressed it. So, going
up W to him aa he limped out Of the pulpit,
said in loud and angry tone: "Come
outside of these tents, sir, and will
give you the best whipping you ever
had" The old parson stretched out
his neck, and giving his shoulders
peculiar shake, said, bis voice rendered
more shrill and nasal for the occasion !:
"My nanny hasn't licked me for forty
years, and do you think that am such
a fool as to take the trouble to go behind
the tent to get one now3 | wouldn't 60
for two" And limpiug off, left his as
sailant speechless.
At Cokesbury there Was quite a reli'
gious interest manifested among the stu
dents. At this time there was large
number from abroad in attendance upon
the Cokesbury Manual Labor School.
Several had presented themselves for
PRAYER, and few professed religion.
Mr.. Dnnnelly, who lived at Lowndesville,
was sent for to assist at the meeting. 1t
was Saturday night; the house was
crow ded, and an intense interest marked
the faces of all present. The preacher
announced his text, and made q long
pause, looked around and began thus !:
''You call this revival /! A revival
You don't know what a revival is.
There has not been revival in this
country for thirty years! A revival A