| Show HEATH or a nr v arr laar at 1 n ihunt ono one of the oldest and moat chy idly known methodist preachers in america died on wednesday at his big home near oar pleasant rl munt plains Sangi San roon on counts county illinois illin ilian n 0 ls peter wai q 87 roars D alj ill jio was a nativo native 7 ol of county N va a and was born in I 1 1783 two years after tho the close CIO of the Jl revolution evolution nry war while ho he was still a child ary big 13 parents removed with him to kentucky cly alis early years 1 taro sunt spent in that wild frontier land w bero it tho an war whoop of tho the often are u sed his lie father and his bia noigh neighbors bors to the h df defense or of their lives and homos homes peter was scarcely I 1 36 6 years old when bo be wai arai con vested by nn an itin itinerant crant preacher and became a member of tho the methodist I 1 jipi llis cop a abu M b the event determined the career of big whole lire ile iio conceived TO d the idea that ho he had bad been called to reach the ibo gospel in tho the wilder adu bat almot alino 1 immediately ile bo entered nn to hat duty iri in ills hia autobiography aublib bea about fifteen years ASO ago ha related relate many interesting and often smile alawine a incidents of his hi early labors labore in tho the backwoods b t woodi like baoy of abo men of hill tune time and section ho he had bad an iron constitution tied and a strongly strong marked individuality vi and was a bofia bo L d courageous and zealous worker llo ile oared feared neither niao nor and for his bis cause was wan ready reads q at any timal limo to fight both if they blood too D in in liia ilia way his aig uig speech won was be homely iely but it was earnest and went straight to the hearts of ina his rough audi graceg lid lia was trig heard to pay my a few years ago that bo be had received receive dialto into tho the church no fewer than mow 1200 persons persona and that in his long career be bad preached 0 acmon lo in the early pioneer days he nita raHy rally mot some bard characters who instigated by tho the adversary would endeavor to bring amee upon him ho tells in his big autobiography that once a brutal fellow fallo threatened to whip him bim poter peter said well air I 1 never like to live in dread if you really intend to whip roc me come and do it ib now the wan man conti continued aued to bluster whereupon the fighting preacher dismounting from big horse walked up to asim blui and said now sir you havo have to whip me Is as you yon threatened or stop slop cursing roc me or I 1 will wih put you IQ ia tho river and baptize you io in the namo name of the donl devil for surely barely you to him this cowed the jot bully n IF an is ia also Q ISO related which hh illustrates hii big EiD Fin Kular gular boldness and independence ile ifa was waa preaching before tho the nashville ashy illo Conle conference rence when the timeserving time luno serving clergyman choso whoso wh MO pulpit be occupied seeing acting general jackson jackcon standing stin ding m 10 tho the easier ai lc heined over and said in a aloud loud va fl iii hiner per general jackson lias las come io in general jackson las has come in who is general jackson cried cartwright in ft a voice TO ICO of thunder if f ho be dont dodt get his soul converted conver tiu god vill damn him as quick as a guinea barro this did not convert old at tho the time but it commanded his bis respect for his monitor and ho he treated him with tho the grea greatest conci COD al aeration ration over ever afterwards M mr r cartwright was wag first appointed appoint cil a elder in n no spent years in the old western conference f four or years in the kentucky conference eight years in the asee confer ence and aad forty five mrs ears in tho the illinois Illi Dois coa relate lie ile field different at times mandof tho the roost most important offices IQ in tho the churila cli ch urcla and was delegated to general era conference thirteen timed in 30 I 1 1833 and 1838 in tho the absence of the bishop he bo was president or of the conference it a 13 recorded of him that io in all tho the years ot of his bis ministry ho he was or continued alL located or all P era anet boated and was waa never di dismissed missed for a timo time for of oily any kind 1 in 1856 he published the he story of his life adeina in a volume entitled autobiography of peter Carts cartwright right the backwoods preacher the book had lal a wido do circulation tind and made tho the old man letter belter known in the 1 akst at where he bo seldom visited Tini ted dial the last few years the ibo feebleness D of advanced nf aniced years prostrated him and it wall only a lew few months ago that bis big death was on an new york world belll 20 |
