St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-11-02
Too Tremsudius student"

venturers.
.ToO Tremeudlus Suddent.''
Now it may be that old nan Nat and
his new-fangled religion will como out
all right in the washin, you understand,
but have some serious doubts about it
He is now already on the shady side o!
sixty. and be never got the call to
preach till Wednesday mornin Of last
week. The Seventh Day people held q
big distracted meeting somewheres over
in the hill country. and old man Nat he
Was there and tarried rocnd about as
long as there was . pea in the dish.
Tho meetin broke up on Tuesday
evenin and about daylight the next
mornin he got the call to 60 and preach.
1t looks to mo like the call was ruther
late in comm, and most too tremendous
suddent when it did come.
The chickens had jest put in to
CROWN and day was trcakin acrost the
eastern horizontal when l heard the
call, Rufe," says old man Nat in tellin
mo tho news. Right at first didn't
know for certain but what mought be
dreamin, but presently oncst more !
heard somethin sayin with loud voice,
Git up from there, Nathaniel Hugely,
and 20 to preachin" Naturally OF course
I then got up, and when riz riz q
preachin. Every body on the place WAS
sleep at that time but me. but still l
riz, Rufe, and l sriz . preachin.
preached to myself till could git my
clothes on, and then went out to the
lot and preached few stanzas to the
mules. BY that time the niggers had
got woke up and 1 lit in. did, and
preached to them till breakfast After
breakfast 1 took my old Bible and put
my foot in the middle of the big road
and pitched out and went to preachin
amongst the high ways and the by ways.
From that time on I have responded
back to the call with tho best Of my
feeble abilities, and I haven't done a
mortal thing, Rufe, but preach and eat
and sleep, and then sleep and eat and
preach some more"
II old man Nat amt maxim NO mis-
take in regards to tho call. I reckon he
Is right in preachin SO reglar and con-
slant. Hc has lost heap of time and
got mighty bsd behind with his work,
you understand, and he will have to put
in tho licks fast and furious in order
ment to come out even. Old man Nat
is now tho 6nlyest livin member Of the
Hugely family, and if he can manage 80
as to pay his way At preachin there aint
nothin particlar to keep him at home.
Here Of late he has been holdin forth
promiscus anywheres and everywheres
around in the settlement, and from
what can pick up amongst the folks
no never has went back home since hc
got the call and ''riz preachin."
Nat is jest simply bsrkin on the wrong
trail. He don't doubt but what the old
man has got . call for somethin, but he
thinks it was call to the poorhouse or
the crazy SLOAN instid Of the pulpit
But Is for me, don't give myself no
worriment in the case one way or the
other. Supposin even II he don't do no
good in his new line, he is now too old
and feeble to do any harm exceptin to
himself. II I am right tho Seventh
Day Adventurers can't be right, and
likewise also if they are right aint
right, but for all know the whole en-
tire shootin match of US mought be
wrong. Plain. reglar. genuine, old-time
religion is the same thing every day
and everywheres, and there amt NO one
set of people in this wide world that arc
good and pu.e enough to have 1t all.
The Desooa and the Elder.
You mought light out this mornin on
. good saddle horse and it would take
you three days Of hard ridin to find two
men that think they have got as much
religion as Deacon Joiner and Elder
Newton make out like they have got.
To hear the Deacon talk and the Elder
shout you would think they ought to
take wings right now and fly away from
this vain aid fieeting world.
And yet the Deacon and the Elder
have been mad and at outs for years and
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