The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-15

/, fellow had the brakes set
We were being entertained In the
home OF this preacher In whose
church we we're holding the meeting.
These two preachers lived side by
6dde on the bank Of the river. They
had high board fence riEht~on the
line. nine feet high. 30 the kids and
wives couldn't scrap hack and forth.
1 said to Doc one day, IRA like to
meet the p9stcr. Of the other church.
SD - ->ss@.,v .ess.s s.xs1.A. - -,
He said. 'swsii. perhaps.
50 We werr streHsnG down tAs
street one day and his white necktis
Was happing back and forth, In =
Hilk hat, twtriing cane. and he said.
er church."
Would Hike 20 Meet Him.
said. ''I'd like to meet him.
So when We got in Gloss quArters,
they turned. looked in the opposite
as though the world or one
another smelled bad. and said. "Its
evident that You two fellows don't
speak AZ you pass by
He said. mo. Sir! I haven't
said. "HAve you been preaching
in the Interim"
He said. yes. SIR
I said, .HAve you been administer.
ing the ordinance OF communion and
| OF baptism p
I said. III you'd died you'd b In
hell now. II you're a Presbyterian
ycu believe in predestinatdon, FORE
ordination. the final preservation BY
have you got? My Bible says. Wee
unto you II you forgive not men their
ltrespases for neither Will your Father
| in heaven forgive your trespasses. :
Land Td like to see the theological
gymnastics that you display TO side
/ We stayed there week. nobody
was converted. We packed ouf trunks
ana Jeff. The spirit Of God fed rom
the scene Of strife and OF discord-
and you might as well EXPECT @
mummy to speak and bear children.
az to expect the people to be con-
verted in cold world OF fault finding.
growing preachers.
| A friend OF mine xas preaching In
4 town In Iowa and he was taken
sick, and to 90 TO the hospital and
have an operation; and the Ministerial
associate asked me to come and take
the meeting In his absence WA
scheduled to begin another meetin 8
lin another town on the Sabbath, but
II said:
III your can fix II up with the
preachers In that other town III BE-
/ glad to do IT,
And they did It and wired me and
/ went and preached there a week.
The ministers had PREACHED two weeks
| In thAt little town and they sent q
man up these to preach, in the interim
and he had preached q week; then l
went, up and I preached A week and
there wasn't man. woman or child
| rop Writ Ad--nOt a 0r1Ns
| Sat Spell bound.
/ preached but they seemed to Sit
speii-bound, and one day a Methodist
| preacher came up to see me. looking
sad. and he raid TO me:
"Bnl. one Of my leading members
was Doc Stewart He asked me for q
letter Of dismissal"
/ I aid, II wouldn't give it to him"
T, He said, well. we've done every
/ thing we can and we can't convince
him that Res wrong. He's one Of
theSe buil-headed Scotchmen. you
couldn't move him."
| 7 said, Whats the troubie?"
| He said, Here's the trGnble. Doc
. Stewart was a steward OF the Metho-
dist church. The mayor OF the town
was . steward IN the same church,
around for q rite upon which to erect
/ q new school building. and Doc had
! a site to sell, and a man who owed
the mayor $4oo had q site to sell And
j tho schoolhoard voted to buy the site
from this fellow who owed the mayor
| and Doc charged the mayor with
pulling strings 50 he could get his
!, dough.
You couldn't convince him that
he was wrong. You couldn't turn
Doc. and when they met on the street
:. they passed the lie, put up their dukes
| and went at Il. The mayor gave an
upper cut that sent Doc to the mat
! He painted his eye"
| One night turned to the Prcsby-
! terrain preacher. fellow named Jor-
! dan. and l. said, Who'll. I ask to
pray?"
! pray"
+. seDuc" Was s4tsAnye-~
And so I asked Doc Stewart to
pray and he was game. He got up
and cleared his throat and he went
at 1t.
! Did you ever hear a threshing ma
chine start up in the fall after she
has stood out all winter and all sum
mcr without any grease? Wen. you
can know that old Doc was COINS
some when he sweat out a cclluloid
collar.
He staggered through 1t and said.
| Now you 60 get those two fel-
lows together and see II you can't
tix II up
/ So they went and they got them to-
! gether and got number OF the lead
| ing men together and finally they
got up and shook hands and buried
| the hatchet.
Now they said. everybody In
town knows about It."
| The town was built this way. the
courthouse In the middle and the town
built around It. said.
| Lock ArmA. walk around. town
around the courthouse square and let
everybody know Il"
| So they locked arms and walked
| around the courthouse square and
then thew ratarnrnAred through It,
Everybody In town rubbeFcd. That
night you couldn't ret within = hun
dred feet OF the building. preached.
| nobody was converted. People sal
crying--I saw . woman get up and
start down the aisle: she was 50 bis
she had to move In sections. She
| went through cross aisle like
that ons. she stopped by another wo-
man and threw her arms around her
and lot out = ycifi HIRE . Gonfa>anehe
Indian and threw her arms up In the