The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-14

big thing in any battle, including, that against the hosts of evil.
 We will sing" said the Moojer, "A Cushla MaChree, because it Is a good song and most of you know 1t. It was, as the Moojer said, good song. A lit tie love note with a pleasing melody, which had been brought into the lum- Der camps by an old stilor from the English navy, who could sing it very well. In that way the MooJer put his people at ease from the start. Being wise, he made no attempt at prayer, for, as he remarked, he had no exercise in that line. But he served the purpose by calling on Abner Wilkins, who had assisted in that way at the previous meetings. Then the Moojer started on the discourse He never got over the heads of his people. He touched on no theological points. Hell-fhe was who'll ly overlooked. In fact, when he was through there were few of the audience who could tell what it had all been about. The style was rambling at times, and the language not always within the set rule, but there was rude eloquence and an occasional flight f0 imagination and a touch of senti- ment in such simple guise that from that day forward the MCojer's reputa- tion as pdeacher was established. As "Jere" Wilkins put it, "he could preach the hind sights clean off'n the revival missionary" Along with his somewhat disconnected oratory he gave little good advice. basing it on the higher ground of utility. And he declared then that to give weight to his argument he was going to join them in following his good suggestions and would drink no more whiskey and figh> no more, no matter what champion came from what camp. He could see that men on Wild cat Point could live as decently as men anywhere else, and that they might as we'll make a beginning in a mild way right then, without starting to bite off at one time more than they could chew in the way of reformation. Y
 Tn course Of time the Mooier talked to ahe flock again. When tidings came to the ears of the brethren out in the world they questioned the evangelist and his irregular methods, but he held his people in line and his work showed for good. Then one day he was invited to a quarterly conference over in the neighboring county seat.
 The Moojer became more studious. He had more books. And one spring when he went down the river with the dumber he failed to poin the gang of raftmeu when they came back.
 A group was in the store down at the mills one evening after the mail had come in. "Bucky" Wales opened a pa per the post master handed him.
 Well, great snakes, where did that pa per come from?" he exclaimed. As he held it up aid looked it over a marked
 paragraph caught his eye. It read:
 Presiding elder of the Big Run district Henry J. Conway. Dr. Conway is one of the most popular and influential preachers in the eastern Iowa confer ence. He is fareeful, eloquent, clear In his style. and he knows how to handle | his congregations. He is magnetic
 man and power for good" 1 And who in the name of seven wild
 cats is Henry J. Conway" said ! 'Bucky," as he scretched his head re- fectively. Conway" joined in Char | ley" Richards. the man who had been 1 driving oxen on the job for the last
 thirty-five years, Conway, that's Side
 Hill Moojer, the fellow who married
 Parker's girl. Don't you mind? He went out west and got to preaching and now he is presiding elder. We'll, lands of big pine stumps, how some people
 does sagaciate. ."-Bion II. Butler in the 1 Pittsburg Times.