The Detroit times., 1914-06-09

nervous. I would come across
neighbor who had been peaceful and
friendly the day before. 10 insslm
nightly and an enemy. ready 20 slam
me In the face. and more ready 90
call me all sorts OF hard names. and
blaming me for the whole war
In church. which called The Ark OF
Peace" IL got so bad that the seats
on the south side OF the aisle was
called Africa" by the Unions, and
the north side was called "lincoln's
Pen by the secessionisrs And the
members moved from one side 20 the
other according 20 their war politics.
The aisle was called Kentucky"
because II was supposed 10 be neutral
territory But no secessionist would
move an tnCh 10 let Union pass 10
'Lincoln's Pen" through kentucky.
For az 5hat time. after the fourth
fight at the store. the secessionists
had far the best.o OF H. and according
TO my own count, there were three
hundred and ten in Africa" while
"Lincoln's Pen" had only hundred
and forty-siX But that aisle made
all take sides There were no neu.
trais There was nothing 20 sit on in
Kentucky"
or course. Parr iiurwitZ had a hard
time OF IL, preaching straight down
that aisle, about angels and archan-
gels all the time, avoiding everything
Eighty till Herman Ware rose up in
his pew In Africa" one Sunday and
said
Pastor the Bible is run OF war
stories. David and Goliath, the Bat.
AZ lob .Fs.at n.
Amalekites, the crossing OF the Red
Sea, Tie battle OF Armageddon-al Of
these IMPLYING the present struggle
or the South for liberty We are two
10 one and we demand that you
preach OF wars and rumors OF wars.
TWO sermons out OF three. or else"
Well. 'or else meant that the pas
tor wouldn't get his salary the next
month II he didnt-and maybe, be
wearing feathers instead OF clothes
and he began, by preaching a hum
mer-calllng upon the. secessionists
to blow their trumpets and throw
down the abolition walls or Washing.
ton!
He got cheer from "Africa"-the
first cheers, suppose that old
church ever heard and afterward it
was worse than ever-until Africa"
foutnumbered "Lincoln's Pen" four TO
one, and the pastor kept on thunder
ing war-sermons. never one about
peace and doves and not down the
aisles in Kentucky" where no one
was-but straight into Africa" with
his back turned on "Lincoln's Pen"
tell you 1t took courage 10 go TO
church, them days, and keep from
fighting, and soon ! excused myself
and so did most all OF the other Tn
ions Four 10 one was no use
After that they had il all their
own way in "Africa"-and they didn't
seem 10 like II. They were tightly.
even In church. wanted 10 drive us
TO "Linooln,s Pen" 70 be bombarded.
II wasn't much fun hghting battles
without an enemy They were too
sure TO win
At last, when they hadn't us any
more 90 fight they got TO fighting
among themselves. Some was too
secession and others wasn't secession
enohgh Some was ready 70 go into
thel Confederate army, and others
SAID that was going too far They got
c1lled cowards-spies-A
and w-Nothings-and they call
ed the others Copperheads- Knights
of-the-Golden-Circle Nigger-lov-
ers-and those were all hght-words 10
every man in those days Well, the
upshot OF it was that they had bat.
tie. right there in the church. and
tore the place TO pieces, with many
wounded and no dead Parr Horwitz
was so scared that he skedaddled, and
was never heard from again. and
some one nailed up what was left OF
the church, and IL wasn't opened
again for FIVE years. But that fight
in the church made worse blood than
anything else--like church fights al
ways do. After that everybody was
mad at everybody else, and called
each other all kinds OF hard names
And the secret organizations, for one
disloyal purpose or another, flourish
ed mightily-just for spite
II never looked exactly like an Ark
OF Peace from that time on-the nice
old church
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