Smyrna times., 1892-10-05


times line afeard that Unkel Peelep
wont begin to live his days out, onless
we kin mannidge sum how or uther to
git US a preecher at Ciderville who
wont never menshun money in meetin
n, except in the wust kind of case of
needcessity, like gittin oil for the lamps
or paying the sextunt.
Before jined meetin, the preachers
=. yust to be alwas a maxim their braps
that salvashun was Free but kin tell
you, Jess, it don't turn out that wav in
i, our naburhOOd. don't bleeve there's
ben yeer Ov my life sence wus tuke
into the church that haint had to paw
sumthin or uther fur the privilege ov
Oelongin, and it seems to me that the
nearer git to the end ov my iurny the
more it kOsts me. If it keeps on that
way line afeard some ov us will find
out that hevvin is terrible EXPENSIVE
place to go to.
But line gttin kleer away frum
the sarmint and the preecher. He
told us good many things that made
the kongregashun look ez sollum as
grave stones and wished more than
wunst that l owned a barl Ov MUMMY
soze | cud put a kupple ov dollars in |
the oasklt, without feein it, when the |
kullekshun was took. The preecher
dun his level best to try to git us to
see That 1t was our bounden duty to
take keer ov the old preachers, even
tho we had to take MUMMY that was a
drawin interest to do it with. and he
koted knnsiderable skripcher to pruve
1t, notwithstanding evry verse brought
grone from Unkel Peeleg and a big
amen trum Isum Klover, who alwas
peers to be ez reddy to Civ as sum ov
the'rest ov us is to find fault with the
weather.
There was wun thing that Bruther
Javlun told US about preachers that
lnterestme most as mutch as pittin a
big korn krop, and that was how cheap
they used to work before they begun ,
to git proud and wear brodcloth. He
sed 1t yust to be the rules ov the
church to low preecher eighty dol
lars year, wet or dry, without no 7
washln nor mendin, and then, when 7
he got married they wud give him an I
uther eighty dollars to support his t
wife and git rich on. l don't think 7 i
ever saw Unkel Peeleg and Bruther f
Gimps look mutch happier thun thew
did when the preecher got to this part
OF the sarmint. They both chirked up b
rite away, and looked as bammy as a o
gal with sun flower on her bonnet. Il
The thickness in Unkel Peelegs breath &
lett MIN immejut, and he begun to rub o
his hands and say amen as brisk as tho a
ne was hungry and cud smell dinner a a
cookin. :,
Eighty dollars year for preechin. =,
or even hundred and sixty, for that -
matter, is more within the bounds ov :,
reason than preachers wages is in these 7,
Times, and If that was the price now I T.
eleeve sum Ov us wudent hav to Law Il,
awake and worry SO mutch, and the y,
stewards wouldent hav to wear out so -
turrbul mutch shu lether in doin their !,
kullektin. it was only that wav =,
now, and whoever has the say so vud =
pass law aginst tryin to raze mummy -
IN meetin fur anything except lites ~
and hrewood at the very furdest, it a.
peers to me that sum Ov us end oft -
along smuther in tryin to be religious. fa,
AT reesunable prices fur preechin I %,
don't see why we cudent keep our -
church chuck full Ov members. and -
make it easy fur everybody to nav -
their quarteridge, without havin to ~
sell katf or sumthin else that thew
mad sot ther harts on to do it. If
lident hav TO shell out but two bits
9vry three months instid ov the four
1ollars line robbed ov now, I don't
oleeve Ide feel half as bad in the fol
cloudy weather as do, and goin to wi
neetin wudent seem so mulch like Al
work to me as it duz. ET
But while Unkel Peeleg, and Bruther mt
Ilmps and me, and sum more ov us. the
vas rubbin Ou hans and feelin good the
I'll over at the thawts ev cheep preech- the
n, Rruther Javlun begun to try to ses
how that preachers rally Armed all alv
hey got, and good deal more sum. {
lines, and that if they was only paid ma
air wages while they was in the biz. era
less, they wudent hav to kum to us On
7lth their hats in their hands when has
hey got old and helpless. I lin,
aust say that I've never looked at it bac
that way before, but had gineralIv It's
uhKluded that the mummy I've Civ to a
reechers was dOnashun that dident of i
dldent expect to git nuthin back fur. i
ne preecher sed there wuzzent an bus
ID preecher anywhere hardly. but sue
nat cud by hisself house and lot, if viii
had only been pade all the quarter can
Ige that had ben promised to him, but dea
sed there wuzzent any law to Civ mea
reechers ALI their rites this side ov "
eVVin, and so a good many dident git our
N. he told Ov a good many cases for
lat he had knode ov where old line
'eechers akshully suffered fur the of b
'edcessities ov life, and then he had opp
e stewards KUN around to see how and
utch they cud git out ov us. 1 made quito
my mind that wud put dime in spor
9 baskit any how, altho times is most Wol
tragus tite and 1 dun so. Bruther as L
llymun Klover give three dollars, Unit
It Unkel Peeleg was so worked up in som,
feelins that he had to grab his hat I'll
d kane and start fur the town pump is
fore they cud git to him with a feet
skit. and
lurnt afterwards that the kullek- hit 81
IN footed up four dollars and 81 wbir
lts' not kountin kupple Ov buggy falls
shers that sumbody had throde in saw :
ted ov mummy. If all the rest of the 10 !,
etin houses duz as we'll as ourn dun. boop