The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-10-01
A Baptist on Presbyterians.

the South, known as "Club-A
Davis, was certainly "a character
in his time. A lady writes he
"Reminiscences of this mana sermon
which she heard him preach nearl
fifty years ago in Georgia. We trus
that the contrast between the habit
of Baptists and Presbyterians is no
so great now as then, and that Bap
lists know how to pray as we'll as d,
Presbyterians.
The preacher was apparently
about fifty years of age, large, mus
culor, and well-proportioned. Or
entering the pulpit he took off his
coat and hung it on a nail behind
him, then opened his collar and
wristbands and wiped the perspira-
ton from his face, neck and hands.
He was clad in striped cotton home
spun, and his shirt was of the same
material. He had travelled several
miles that morning, and seemed al
most overcome by the heat. But
the brethren sang couple of hymns
while he was tanning and cooling
of, and when he rose he looked com
Portable and good-natured.
He had preached there once or
twice before, but to the most of the
audience he was stranger. Hence
he thought it necessary to announce
himself, which he did as ''Old Club
AK Davis. from Scriven County,
Half-Hard and Half Soft-Shell Bap-
tist'
II have given myself that NAME"
said he, because I believe the Lord
elected me from all eternity to go
ahead in the backwoods and grub
out a path and blaze the way for
other men to follow. After the |
thickest of it is cut away good,
warm Methodist brother will come
along and take my trail, and make
things little smoother and a good
deal noiser. And after all the under
brush is cleared out, and the owls
and wolves are skeered back, and
the rattlesnakes is killed off, Pres
byterian brother, in black broad
cloath and white cravat, will Come
along and cry for decency and or
der. And they'll both do good in =,
their spere. I don't despise larnt :
man, even when he don't dress and =
think as l do. You couldn't pay me y
enough to wear broadcloth, summer
nor winter, and you couldn't pay ,
Presbyterian brother enough to do 7
without it in dog-days. :
God didn't make us all alike, my :.
orethren; but every man has his
'wn spere. When God has a place ),
o fill, He makes man and puts =
linn in it. When He wanted Gen :,
raj Jackson, He made him and set :,
i'm to fghtin' Injuns and English;
Vhen He wanted George Whitefield, =
lie made him for to blow the Gospel y
as no other man ever blow =,
d it,; and when He wanted Old :.
lub-AX Davis, He made him and set
i'm to grubbin' in the back woods. n
But my shell amt so hard but G.
can see good pints in everybody;
nd as for the Presbyterians, they r.
re long way ahead of us Baptists
nd Methodists in some things. They
Use their children better than any an
)dy on the face of the earth. Only en- en-,
few days ago a Methodist class ito
ader said to me: Brother Club sib
K, l was born a Methodist, and by ma ma
e grace of God l hope to die a act
ethodist; but, thank God, I've got be
good Presbyterian wife to raise. R n |
y children And l believe, my s
ethren, if the Lord should open
e way for me to marry again, I'd
y my best to find Presbyterian
oman, and run my chances of n
eakin' her into the saving doc
mes of feetwashin' and immersion
rewards. an
at amt three weeks since l was
t cattle huntip,' for two of my Ea
arlins had strayed off; and / stop
in at old Brother Harker's, on An
Id Creek, and took dinner. He's
leacon in the Presbyterian Church Shs
er thar. Well, as true as / stand
-e, brethren, Sister Harker had
: little gal standing right be-
e her, with toes just even with
crack on the floor, and her hands An'
S a hangin' down by her side, and
mouth turned up like a chicken Ina
en- it drinks, and she was putin
5 question to her out o. that AnC
echism
What are the benefits which in
5 life do either accompany or flow
N Justification, adoption and
ctifcation?' 90
Now, the question itself was
ugh to break the child down. Eve
when she had to begin and say The
question all over (for that's the
: it was in the book and then And
n the answer to it, and which