The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-03-21
"reminiscences of Rev. Levi Garrison,

Theswriter is unable to give the date
OF Mr.: Garrison's entrance into the
South Carolina Conference. He itinera-
ted in this State when itinerauts were
rev. His circuit extended from the
mountains to the coast. 1t took ak
weeks to make the round Of his ap.
pOintments.
he wac a man Of remarkable endow-
me9ts. Extensive education in this
backwoods country at that time wae
impossible. but with his Bible and
Josephus: whom he could quote with
Facility, he ripened himself into con-
siderable attainments. AS be rode in
his two " heeled chair he studied, de-
VelopinK bis mind into something re-
narkable. / board him one day, With
OUT pencil or slate, reduce his age to
hours.
Providence Church. then and now a
! conference appointment, and situated
near the junction Of tho Seneca and
Iugaloo rivers, where they form the
places. Near that church his home
was located. His little cottage was on
the road leading from Anderson. .S. c.,
to GAINESVILLE, Ga. One day the late
GOV. Is. +. Perry, passing that way,
happaHe:. &c get into conversation with
hliD, and was so struck with his mind
power that he tarried with him the
:"
he went to Greenyille, and published
concerning the old veteran q whole
page in the Greenvilse Mountaineer,
OF which Perry was then editor. The
community in which be lived sgas large
~ tresDyeerla who we're very fond
or MIN. he was COnsid. rare IT others.
The mornings b>ink the times
osaeIa preached, he p.rachsd ip the
nfE Ergo2ns, lest he Oh ,;uld interfere
OtH2fa. a n3n
now be could have in.erfered. Many
would have !es: their own courch fo
have heard him. -
de was euperannuated before the
@ethodlst Church made any provision
tor the e9ppore Of her worn Out preach
ers; but he did not suffer for the nsces
sarles or nfe.: His presence alta camp
supply of his nesds. =, : :. -.
The writer, then q student at David
son., but at home on q. vacation, heard
his last sermon. The audience was n
large, promiscuous one. His text was
.What l do thou knowest not now,
but !thon shalt know hereafter.h
among .otheri things, he saiG: "Some
thtnRs "s do not know. Why God
houid have taken Capsrs fw1o Ind
led short time before, not more than
te0 miles from where Garrison was
preachsug) and BascOm, and left me. q
poor. weak vessel, / cannot under.
stand. BY faithI know it's ali right:
God has some duty for me yet to per-
form. Perhaps it is tho PREACHING Of
this sermon, According to the course
OF nature, Being now eighty years Of
age, / shall soon find that duty and.
dischaTge It," And strengthening him:
SELF up as straight as he could have
done at twenty, he quoled: "Thc1
shalt call, and ! shaii. answer thee.
Thou wilt have q deaire to the work
OF thy hands He closed the exer-
eises with the hymn, 20 for q CLOSER
walk with God II appeared to The
writer much like prophecy, for in inst
week, =, the hour, be passed away
on duty on earth forever, on duty with
tho phalanx of the ekies. = ..z@::,'s''
Hts body sieeps IN an unmarked
grave. but his spirit has doubtless: :
taken it's place among those ''of whom
the world was: not worthy Rev. ]
H9gh MeLees, IN Southern Christian
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