The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-05
"Too Tremendous Suddent."


Now it may DO that old man Nat and
his new-fangled religion will come out
all right in the washin, you understand,
but | have some serious doubts about it.
He is now already on the shady side OF
sixty, and he never got the call to
preach till Wednesday mornin of last
week. The Seventh Day people held a
big distracted meeting "somewheres over
in the hill country, and old man Nat he
was there and tarried round about as
long as there was a pea in the dish.
The meetin broke up on Tuesday
evenin and about daylight tho next
mornin be got the call to GO and preach.
1t looks to me like the call was ruther
late in comm, and most too tremendous
student when it did come.
The chickens had jest put in to
CROWN and day was treakin acrost the
eastern horizontal when l heard the
call, Rufe," says old man Nat in tellin
me the news. Right at first I didn't
know for certain but what | mought be
dreamin, but presently oncst more l
heard somethin sayin with d loud voice,
Cit up from there, Nathaniel Hugely,
and go to preachin! Naturally of course
| then got up, and when l riz l riz a
%preachin. Everybody on the place was
sleep at that time but me, but still l
riz, Rufe, and l riz a preachin. l
preached to myself till l could git my
clothes on, and then / went out to the
lot and preached a few stanzas to the
mules. BY that time the niggers had
got woke up and | lit in, I did, and
preached to them till breakfast. After
breakfast l 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 l have responded
back to the call with the best of my
feeble abilities, and l haven't done a
mortal thing, Rufe, but preach and eat
and sleep, and then sleep and eat and
preach some more"
If old man Nat amt maxim no mis-
take in regards to the call, l reckon be
is right in preachin so reglar and con-
slant. He has lost a heap of time and
got mighty bad behind with his work. |
you understand, and he will have to put
in the ticks fast and furious in order
to come out even. Old man Nat
is now the onlyest Twin member of the
Hugely family, and if he can manage SO
as to pay his way at preachin there amt
particlar to keep him at home.
of late he has been holdin forth
promiscus anywheres and everywheres
in the settlement, and from
what l can pick up amongst the folks
he never has went back home since he |
got the call and "riz a preachin."
Andy Lucas maintains that old man
Nat is jest simply barkin IN the wrong
He don't doubt but what the old
man has got a call for somethin, but he |
thinks it was a call to the poorhouse or
crazy SLOAN instid of the pulpit.
But as for me, l don't give myself no
worriment in the case one way or the
Supposin even if he don't do no
good in his new line, he is now too old
and feeble to do any harm exceptin to
himself. If l am right the Seventh
Day Adventures can't be right, and
likewise also if they are right l amt
but for all l know the whole en-
tire shootin match of US mought be
Plain, reglar, genuine, old-time
religion is the same thing every day
and everywheres, and there amt no one
of people in this wide world that are
good and pure enough to have it all.