Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-12
now rea.sng and l thought I would

use IL.
Sometimes we find charity and toler-
ance where we would least expect it.
and rice persd. In North Carolina,
where | may now be regarded as sum-
mer resident, taxpayer and fellow citi-
zen, there is in some parts of the state,
strong religious sentiment which must
be extremely gratifying to fractional
deity. do not know, of course. how a
prayer is received at the Throne of
Grace which is ticketed as coming from
the Reformed or Established or Re-es-
tablished This -the-other Church
South, or the Hardshell Aquatic church
looking northwest. The committee on
credentials must be pretty busy some
| times settling the question of whether
rain prayed for by the high church shall
be supplied or the cessation of rain re-
quested by the low church, or whether
good times with unlimited coinage shall
be given by request of the Up-and-com-
ing Church South or good times with q
restricted currency be sent to the coun-
try in answer to the requests of the Up
andcoming Church North.
A man teacher, who is a pronounced
Episcopalian and who is Jealous as all
should be in every walk of life, got into
difficulty a few weeks ago not far from
my cabin home He and the mother of
young girl of the neighborhood had
talked the matter over and decided to
enter the name of the girl as an appli-
| cant for membership in the Episcopal
church. But at that time a revival
hr-nlya in ha Ia
man with limited information but great
lung power. He was a plain man, with
an active boil on the back of his neck
His heart was good but his blood
was bad, in the language of tarheel
acquaintance of mine.
The girl, however, was led away from
the teachings of the Established church
by the more passionate prayer of the
revivalist, together with the vociferous
song service led by him with the aid of
little black walnut organ in which the
tremulo had been pulled out so far that
it could not be got back. The mother
tried to show her how it would pain her
to be saved in this informal and vocifer-
Gus manner, but she still attended the
revival, obtaining thereby much COM
fort and steady company to and from.
The mother became quite exercised
over this matter and her homework to-
gether and so called in the man teacher
| and asked if he would not go with her
to the meeting and see if he could not
persuade the young woman to return.
He had kind heart, and so he said he
would. He went in while the mother
ainal n,,+sila A.. l.,
IN he saw that the young girl was on the
mourners' bench; but he had promised
her mother, and so he went to where she
stood. All were singing. He spoke to
her softly and asked her to return with
him and have some style about her, but
she shook her head.
Then the leader said, Let US pray"
His prayer consisted of general attack
on the man teacher, 1.-THE devil that had
come among rs to steal away the lambs
of the fold" etc. The prayer was no
! teacher should have had more sense than
to go in there and try to snatch brand
from the burning when it was really an
other mans brand. When you fool with
| another mans brand out where used
to live you suddenly find yourself feel
ing around with your feet for -four
barrel which some rude hand has kicked
away. (The idea of kicking away -four
barrel by means of the rude hand is
original with mel
Well, to make long story short, an
other hymn followed and then prayer
that left the Throne of Grace fully in
formed regarding the record of the man
teacher. 1t referred to him as the child
of hell and heir presumptive TO that low,
malarial piece of property 1t was II
prayer that would peel the varnish off
an ordinary pulpit and scorch the fringe
on the altar cloth. 1t was replete with
sensational information and crisp edi-
torial comment 1t had hard words in
it, and was highly favored with refer
ences to hell as railroad center and
general outftting point for people who
toyed with brands which others were in
the act of snatching from the burning
The result was that in the back part
of the sanctuary feeling was created
to that extent that in fifteen minutes
the man teacher fed, followed by mob,
one or two of whom he saw pulling their
knives as they came. The mother ran
one way and the man teacher the other.
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