The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-11-19

| long AFTER this / met a. man, ana i
asked him about the state OF things
at Grenada, and he said he had seen a
list OF the killed and wounded. | ask
ed HIM If he saw the name Of Boswell
in that list and said he did. / pressed
on and reached home between sunset
and dark, and, to my great joy and
thankfulness, found my wife and chill
dren all well. The Lord has never
disappointed me when | have trusted
In him, and ! bless His holy name
for it.
We held quarterly meetings, two
days meetings. and camp meetings,
with more or less of revivals at all OF
them, especially the camp meetings.
These were great gatherings of
preachers, exhorters, praying men
and women, and when the work would
break out, we would have more con-
verts in two or three days than we
now have in as many weeks at our
protracted meetings. The reason was,
we ran our meetings day and night,
without the loss Of much time. In
our modern system we lose more time
than we improve. We had good class
meetings and glorious love-feasts,
which were the means OF editicatiOn
and comfort to our people. One broth
| er said: 1.-The class meeting has a
| restraining influence on me during the
week. / remember have TO go to
class Sunday, and it restraints me from
doing wrong" But they are gone.
Bro. w. H. Seat succeeded Bro.
Brooks at Grenada, and was there
two years. He was young green
| looking fellow, but he was smart, and
but few men could beat him preach
ing, and we had good times in the
church.
| But the most remarkable man
among US was Rev. r. j. Harp. He
started up in the neighborhood OF
Grenada poor. ignorant boy: but he
had good religion and honest industry,
driving a wagon for living. 1t is
said some man in Grenada wanted
him to haul load OF whisky to Coffee
vile, but he said, mo-" he would
not haul whisky on his wagon. He
felt called to preach, applied for Ii
cense, but was rejected. He was too
awkward, ignorant, and ugly He
went on driving his wagon, ana L
| think it was on his second or third ap-
plication that he obtained license to
preach, and a recommendation to the
Annual Conference. He was admit
ted and sent as junior preacher on the
POntOtoc circuit in 1S45-the year be-
fore | was there. / found him in
lS46 on the Tallahatchie mission, in
fthe mississippi bottom. He was very
kind and obliging to me; would come
out to Grenada to show me the way
every time he had quarterly meet
| ing, and, as consequence, we be-
came very intimate. He attended to
his work well, and cultivated a crop
OF cotton besides. and sold it tC pay
his debts. Our Conference met in
Memphis in the Fall; Bishop Andrew
presided. During the session he
made a strong appeal to the young
men to volunteer as transfers to Louis
lana. My man Harp was persuaded
| to go, and so had to give him up
| After being there while, he wrote
to me, urging me to come down there
also. He thought | could do more
good there than where | was, and be
better supported. He said: They
pay me eighteen hundred dollars, and
| ride in a fine buggy, behind span
of horses; and, if they do that much
fn ,haf
you?" In 1858 he was delegate to
the General Conference at Nashville.
And SO he went on from one degree
to another as long as knew anything
Of him. He was religious. induStri
Gus, and God blessed him abundant
ly. God will reward those who love
and serve him.
Houston was new town, and Meth
odiSm, as well as | now remember,
had not takeu very deep root while |
was there. 'i'lerc was trouble in
| the church l',:h the preachers, for
several year>, 'Il'l see no way to get
rid of, but, ut last, Bro. Ezekiel E.
! Couch. being sent to the work, soon
got acquainted with the case. Tn
difficulty Was with certain family
who had had fallen into bad odor in
the community, but how to frame a
charge, in order to bring them to
trial, was not apparent; but Bro.
Couch. in considering the case. made
up his mind to charge them with gen.
eral unacceptability in the church.
So he cited them to trial on this
charge. He found no trouble in prov
ing his charge, and they were all
excluded from the church. | have
always heard it, said, There are more
ways OF killing dog without choking
him to death with butter;;" and so it
is, or used to be, in church trials.
| Mothers Praise 1t.