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Show EVIDENTLY HAD HIS DOUBTS Olfactory Evidence Offered Up by Serious Minded Old-Time Circuit Rider. A typical old-time "circuit rider" died recently in Alabama a man whose godly unselfish- life will long be remembered. Many were the 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 sin in no uncertain tones, and the familiarity with which he addressed the Lord in prayer. On one occasion he had been preach ing in a log meeting house in the piny woods of north Alabama. There were several young fellows on hand who had been celebrating by patronizing a still hard by. After a long, fiery sermon, ser-mon, the preacher made a call for mourners, and soon the rude altar was filled mostly by the afore-men-ioned young fellows. The old man locked 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 swearin and drinkln' and spendin' their time in riotous llvin", but they've 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. |