| Show M MEN N WHO TRAVELED CIRCUIT Not the Least Famous of No tec Preachers Was Lorenzo Dow Dow Dow- Cautious In Lovemaking Many were the famous characters dill produced on tilt the of early days I S 'S Mr Arlhur W W- In III The Th TheMen Men Jen if Mountain men fearless in III danger in labor endur enduring ing in privation powerful In exhortation tion rend ready in wit and oft often ell prepared d to use physical ph as well ns os spiritual muscle In their combats combat with IMS levil and his human agents Among the most Interesting of them was Lor Lorenzo Dow a roving preacher whose work was not confined to the mountains or r the frontier for although he hI labored from the high peaks of oC North Carolina to the bunks banks of the and from Georgia to Canada Cnn Can ada he was WU well known also along tin the Atlantic coast and even en In England and nd Ireland Restless and eager r he continually trawled traveled nor would he marry until he had found n young woman who would promise that sh he would spare part him from home months out of thirteen Ills proposal of marriage a letter Ilter I that I Is I I think unique In the J caution with which It J if thc tho I subject ran as liS follows follow If Ie I am preserved about a year a from now I am In hopes of nf seeing this northern country lignin again und if during this time lime you live anil remain single lint and find no one thai you like better h I 1 hun him you do me 1 and 11 would be hI willing to give Ie me up UI twelve twelvemonths m months out of thirteen or three years out of four to travel and that In II foreign for eign lands and never say Do no not go goto f to your our appointment etc for for If you should IlI In the way 1113 I should pray to Hod GI to remove you which I J believe o he hI would r answer and If I find no lU one that I like better leUr than Ihan I do 10 you perhaps per pr haps something further may be hI Mild upon that Youths Youth's Com panion |
