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Show EVIDENTLY HAD HIS DOUBTS Olfactory Evidence Offered Up by Serious Minded Old-Time Circuit Rider. A typical old tltno "circuit rider" died recently in Alabama -a man whose godly unselfish llfo will long be remembered. Many were tho eccentricities ec-centricities of this rugged old man, and many anecdotes are current among the Methodist ministers of the state concerning him. He was noted for two things his denunciation of eln In no uncertain tones, ami the familiarity with which be addressed tho Ixird in prayer. On one occasion h had been preaching preach-ing In a log meeting house In the piny woods of north Alabama. There were aeveral young fellows on hand who . had been celebrating by patronizing a still hard by. After a long, fiery sermon, ser-mon, tho preacher made a call for mourners, and soon the rude altar was filled mostly by the aforementioned aforemen-tioned young fellows. The old man ! looked them over for a moment, and with keen intuition felt that it was perhaps a "lark" on the boys' part, but he knelt to pray. "O Lord," he began, "here's a crowd Of young fellows kneeling round your altar. They've been cussin' and ewearln' and drlnkln' and spendin' their time In riotous livln', but they'vo come up here seemingly penitent. They look like penitents, Lord, and I hope they are. They weep like penitents, peni-tents, Lord, and I hope you'll forgive 'em if they are; but. O Lord. I declare they don't smell like penitents:" Youth's Companion. |