Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-23
UNCLE JIMMY BANNELLY
Anli.BeIIum Preacher Of Wide RGpu-
tatiOD.
WAS BRUSQUE and TO The POINT
Did Not Stand for Vulgar Display and
Was Down on Hypocrites-AIso Was
Bitter Against lmmorality-Would
Einht IL Necessary.
fBy T. Larry Can't.

(By T. Larry CAN'T.
In old ante -bcllum days, and cspc-
cially in the rural sections, preachers
were of an entirely different order
from the ministers of the gospel in
these advanced and modern times.
They were clerical shoulder -hitters,
who did not mince or choose their
words and believed in and preached
hell fire and briEStOnC. After one of
these fiery sermons the hairs on the
heads of the terrOrized congregations
stood out like quilts upon a frctful
porcupine. You could almost smell the
brrmstone and broiling flesh as they
depicted the horrors of torment. that
was the sure heritage Of unpenitent
sinners.
one of the most noted preachers of
the South was an old wooden legged
Methodist named Uncle Jimmy Dan
nelly" who lived about one and half
miles from Lowndesvillc, Abbeville
district, South Carolina, near the old
Smyrna church. He offciated in the
early fiftes He was a stout-built
man and l should say weighed around
$50 pounds. His home was within sight
of Smyrna church, and close to the old
camp ground Of that name. This
church has been moved to LOwndes
willie and the railway from Anderson
passes within a few feet of the large
graveyard belonging to the church and
in which many OF the remarkable men
of that section are buried.t
Uncle Jimmy" Dannclly hated three
things above all else: Foppery and
gGudy apparel; inattention to services
during his long -winded sermons, and
immortality. Some of his denuncations
from the pulpit against the latter sin
were so strong and expressive as not
TO be printed at all.
Uncle Jimmy's" fame as a preacher
spread over the state and he was once
invited to preach a sermon in a fash
ionable church of Charleston, S. c. He
had Il piercing, high pitched voice.
After mounting the pulpit and taking
his text, the old gentleman glancing
over the building and then throwing
his eyes into the gallery. set apart for
slaves in many city churches before the
war, began his discourse with: Il was
told when invited to preach in this
great city and to this gaudily- y-arrayeG
congregation that they were very re-
fined people and l must be careful
what ] said lest 7 offend their sensitive
ears From the number Of mulattocs !
see sitting in the gallery. / should
judge that the people of Charleston are
indeed refined Yes, the same kind of
refinement that brought about the de-
StruCtiUn of SodOm and GOmorrah.'
He then delivered Il powerful sermon
ON the subject, and told his hearers if
they did not repent their city deserved
the same fate as brought on the de-
Structiun Of the Dead Sea towns.
And hc could not bear anything like
q display Of pride or hypocricy. There
was a member of his church, a wealthy
man. whom ] shall call Benjamin
Blank. This man built a real nice new
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