The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-19

Ever think about this, mister, that
a man always falls in love and gifts re-
ligion accordin' to his nature?" said
Pappy Corn with why smile after one
OF his philosophical silences. He and
the Stranger were sitting in the cool
of the evening before the door of Pap
py's house. He may do other things
by trainin' and education, but them
two he does accordin' to his own par
ticular instincts. You can't teach him
how to make love, nor yon can't cram
the grace OF God down him by any lit
tie catechism rule. He has to learn
both for hisself. This idea first came
to me the year of the big revival in old
Zion church. when we he'd sech a crop
Of lovers afterwards. You can count
on that. 100: soon as men and women
git right with God. they air mighty
apt to take up with one another. ]
nave knowed many a young Teller in
this valley who played cards. drunk
whisky and never spoke to a decent
woman TO break loose from Satan and
git religion: then, the first thing you
knowed he'd be clickin' his spurs. drag
gin his wing on the ground and chuc-
III dIOuIlu the incest little sunday
school gal he could find.
Now the tale I'm fixin' to tell YOU
is to prove my text, that religion and
woman love air always earmarks in a
man of originality. He don't lest ketch
EN- like an idea or a disease, but they
air laid away in him the way they were
when the Lord first made him and
turned him loose naked In that Garden
OF Eden.
Na1I -Fv 90 L.,
widest young men in the settlement
Bill Meeks and the two Stallin's boys
Pete and Tom-sought religion durin'
that revival Bill Meeks amt never
come through yet. though no man does
n better part by the Lord than him
since that meetin'. He was the biggest
and worst of the lot-ha'r growed on
his head the way you have seen it curl
betwixt the horns of a WALLER bull eyes
10 match, and mouth like a sword
slit in his face, il was so thin and
tight shet. He was always ready to
hight anything or anybody. but the sOr-
riest coward you ever see approach the
throne IF grace. He had the feelin',
but no more idea of religion than a hog
has OF side pockets. 1t appealed to
him, but he couldn't get none.
I'VE all talked to him, fore and aft,
but IL done no good. He couldn't pro-
fess hope the size of mustard seed.
was for takin' him into the church
anyhow, same as you'd take a blind
man in out of the dark and cold but
Deacon Snow wouldn't hear to that
Lowed BiIf mought be predestined to
torment for all we knowed and warn't
willin' TO be mixed up with him before
the Lord. The Stallin's boys Jared bet
ter. Tom was nervous. hatchet-faced
feller, with the disposition of a smart
Alex Re was always for layin' his tail
over the dashboard and runnin' ahead
Of somebody else in the race. And
when he got religion you'd have
thought from the way he took on that
his was the first case of redeemin' grace
we ever had In the valley. He mourned
deeper under conviction and shouted
louder when he come through than any
one Of the other converts. Pete was
jest the other way. While Tom was
cavortin' around gittin' his religion in
the meetin' house with everybody to
help him. Pete went off. got down by a
stump in the old field and prayed his
self through unbeknownst to the church
or preacher. First we heard of 1t was
when he come forwards and asst for
baptism long with Tom and the other
brands that had been snatched from
the burnin'.
We'll, sir. no sooner was the revival
over than them three fellers went
a-courtin'. and they courted accordin'
TO the same disposition they showed in
seekin' divine grace. AS / was tellin'
you. Bill Meeks didn't git the witness
of the spirit 10 his conversion, and
thar's whar he fell short in his love-
maxim He'd been holdin' Babe Sorrel
for the apple of his eye a right smart
while. but he loved, her afar off. so to
speak, and after the meetin' he didn't
have no more courage than he had be-
fore to bear witness TO her OF his love-
Babe knowed what was goin' on inside
of him. ! rcckon-women generally do:
hut she warn't the kind to give in be-
fore she was asst. So she treated him I'm
an onpersonal manner. which was kill
IN to the little spunl1 he did have. Mis-
ter. wish you could have, seen Babe
Sorrel when she was young. Sc warn't
pretty; jest fair and strong as II she'd
been put together to last a long time.
She had a round. dinner-plate face.
wid. mouth. flne. quiet eyes. and lit
tie soft nose set down In the middle of
her countenance like short-topped
monument OF love and kindness. I
never see sech a nosei 1t warn't much
for shape. nor II didn't give no hint of
pride or smartness. but be DANCED If