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Show WHERE IS CIRCUIT RIDER? Old-Fashloned Itinerant Preacher Seems to Have Vanished From Present-Day Warld. What has become of the old circuit rider? He seems to have gone, to have vanished entirely from the present-day world, although to the older generations he figured in the lives of the people to whom he ministered. In their day the circuit riders knew little of home or rest, for each had from seven to fifteen parishes, miles opart from each other. When night overtook the circuit rider and his horse this was the minister's usual mode of travel he stopped with some member of one of his parishes. And be it said it was great honor, indeed, to have the great fortune to entertain the minister at a meal or over night. Probably the much overworked man would get to spend one night in a week at home, perhaps not that. His life was uncertain and wandering, but his faith was that which "passeth understanding." un-derstanding." But his days were numbered num-bered and are gone, probably never to be revived. He was a figure, however, that is typical of the pioneers of America Amer-ica he knew his duty and was faithful faith-ful in the performance of it. |