Show ar COOT away back in the forties george E brickett and moses S wilson were classmates in college and were also roommates in after life both became eminent and highly respected members of the medical profession many thousand people in maine and all over new england will remember dr george E brickett as surgeon in charge of the cony united states general hospital at augusta maine during the civil war dr wilson medicine in lincoln maine for upward of fifty years both brickett and wilson were de of the wideawake class of students wilson especially was of a wild rollicking nature not in the least inclined to serious thoughts A revival of religion of more than asual interest was in progress and aaby ot the students were drawn into the vortex but no one supposed that mose allson could be affected or in fluen ced in the slightest degree by any religious movement brickett one evening strolled into the revival meeting as much out ol 01 curiosity as anything and to his great surprise saw allson there on his knees in the midst of a very fervent prayer which greatly moved the hearts of all his hearers after meeting was over brickett Drick ett and allson went directly to their boons wilson s sudden conversion was so surprising that brickett out of dell cacy refrained from mentioning th matter to his friend and the subject was not mentioned by either until just before getting ready to jump into bed allson with all the solemnity of an elder turned to his friend with the question brickett I 1 make a darned good prayer |