The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-07-04

! Went. la, but room Was,lnade fe- Is by
the stove; ard by the time we had
warmed ourselves Ezekial came in
and we found places and sot down
The meetin' was goin' right on all this
time: they was singin' and shoutin' in
!; the good old way we never hear now.
adays. At last, when the right time
had come, Parson DonloW made some
remarks about havin' couple to unite
in holy wedlock, an then he calls for
Ezekial an me to come ford. !" e
''We went up, Ezekial a-lookin' as
red as a beet, an me feelin' about, the
same; an there, in the presence of
everybody, we was yoked together for
life, promisiE' to love an cherish till
death do us part which, I'm proud to
say. we carried out to the letter. ,..
when it, was. all done, Parson Don
low he takes by the hands, and says
he: My children,-them was his
words-''my Children says he, you
have now started upon a new walk in
life. You have taken upon yourselves
the gravest responsibilities of earth.
Upon you depends The fitting for heav-
en- or hell Of future generations. Will
you not, at this critical perfoA'-at this
critical period, says he, put yourselves
into the hands Of the Lord, to walk
With him all the days Of your life?'
Then Ezekial speaks up, an says he:
'Parson Donlow, that is just what we
have made UP our minds to do'-and at
that Parson DonloW lie shouts: Praise
the Lord! and Deacon Wilburts hol'
lers amen! while Squire Munson he
let ont his ringin' 'Hallelujah'
''Havin' our minds made Up to it,
EZe!Sial and me we kneeled down on
the mourners' bench, and there was
soon great many more with us, for
Parson Donlow he jest let himself out
an preached his best, sort O. usin' ME
an Ezekial for his text; and the loud
amens and the ringin' hallelujahs was
heard all the while. You never heard
such a time, for they don't have such.
times nowadays.
i'But 1 amt comm to the pint. The
meetin' was at white heat, you might
say. and everybody who had expert
enced salvation was a-shoutin' and
a-singin', when all of suddint some
| thin happened. Deacon Donlow he
was a-prayin', and it seemed as if he
had laid hold upon the very battle
ments of the heavenly city. He was
| pleadin' for more and more of the
! power, though, for the life of me, l
! couldn't see what was to become OF us
| if we got any fuller than we was then.
! "Iet me see the real Pente:ostal
fresp he shouted Let me hear the
! rushin' sound from heaven, and feel
But that was as fur as he got. for just
then. all of a suddent. somethin' hap
! pened. That little old log meetin'
house begun to move-really move.
| And it kept right OH moyin'. 1t was a
jerky. thu1npy, rocl1in' motion . as
4 though it was shook up by some
mighty heavin' Of the ground itself.
''If there had been shoutin' before,
it wasn't to be compared to the shout
in there was then. You couldn't hear
for the noise they made. Praise the
Lordv cried good, old Parson Donlow.
'Amenv shouted Deacon Wilburt, and
'Hallelujahr rang out Squire Mum
sons voice. But FZekial he Just jumps
! up a-gaspin'-'Them oxenv and he
J made for the door Just as fast as ever
he could. But the door had got iammed
SOS it couldn't be opened
! "And there we all was. in that rock
in and tremblin' little old log meetin'
house, amidst the shoutin' and the
singin'; and the mourners' bench-it
wasn't half big enough to accommo-
date the suddent demand for places.
And still that jerky thumpy, rockin'
motion kept on till the people they be,