Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-06-30
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unspeakably sad. / didn't know how
long / would be rational. Mrs. Ha-
gar, wiping the tears from her eyes,
came to me and made further ex-
animation of my neck when she threw
up her hands and began shouting:
Hallelujah. Thank God, Bro. Oakley
you are not mortified. It's that old
pewter button in your collar that
made your neck look like it was NOR
titled" / sprang up in bed and shout
ed: "Thank God for pewter buttons"
Tt is needless to- say did not have to
be ironed. That crick of three days
suddenly disappeared and / dressed
and went to church feeling as we'll
as 1 ever did in my life. don't know
why the crick disappeared. It may
have seen the face of that homely
woman, or it might have had serious
objections to being turpentined and
, ironed. Anyway it skedaddled in a
hurry. But let me say to one and all
of my readers that it's no joke when
modification sets up, especially when
! you have been suffering for several
/ days with an ache you can't under
stand. Forty one years have come
and gone but that modification fright
/ has remained with me all these years.
J went on to church and all were
amazed to see me walk in as well as
usual. Ny father-in-law kinder tho't
l had played a prank so as to re-
main away from church till he was
up preaching.
/ must say word about Mrs .Ha-
gar's methods. The old time remdies.
I believe much in them. They carry
me back to my boyhood days when
my own precious mother was a doc
tor IN the community in which she
lived and how she did use the old
time remedies. No night was too
dark and no wintry day too cold bat
she was ready to go as angel of mer-
cy to the sick and dying. Some day
in the Judgment of rewards / believe
dear mother will be specially honored
for the little kindnesses she bestowed
upon suffering neighbors and people
even beyond her neighborhood. If ]
should again be afflicted like | was
with crick in neck and shoulders the
first doctor getting to me would look
serious and two hours later l would
be on the operators table at a hospi-
tai in Nashville. A few hours later
the o'clock edition of afternoon pa
pers would contain the following item
'Rev. ]. T. Oakley of Huntsville, a
prominent Baptist divine, underwent
a serious operation at 2:30 p. m. at
a local hospital for crickonitis" The
morning paper would contain an addi-
tional announcement: CDR Oakley
came from under be-dozing anesthesia
soon after midnight. Patient doing
fairly we'll" Two weeks later the
county paper announces the return of
Pastor Oakley "who will soon be able
( to resume his pastoral duties, notwith-
standing his physician orders him to
rest several weeks. Brother Oakley
is back feeling o. K and crick out of
his neck and from one to five hundred
dollars out of his pocket book. l be-
l1eve the old time remedy of Mrs. Ha-
! gar would reach any crick provided
the same method of application be
used that she used-that is, scare the
thing out of fellow before the rem
edy is applied. In my case it was
certainly a quick cure if / did hear
the dull thud of clods falling upon a
coffin containing the remains of one
who died away from home and loved
ones from modification set up over
a stiff neck. Well, at any rate, the
time is coming for us all. The bright
est joy in all the world is to be ready.
And reader, may you and / be ready
and then there will be no dark river
when Jesus comes"
JOHN T. OAKLEY.