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thus with things about us. For instance,
if I saw a hawk and a dove sitting on
a tree, would I shoot the dove? No, 1
would level my gun at the hawk. And it
is thus God deals with every man according
to his nature." He remarked
again, "There's no honest Infidel. To
prove this, suppose a man owed him a
hundred dollars and a note is to be given
him for the amount, would he accept
that note unless he saw written "Anno
Domini and then the day of the
month and the year given? So he acknowledges
so many years since the
birth of our L.ord in whom he is compelled
to believe."
On another occasion at old Bethel
church, he was making a word picture
of the descent of the sinner into Hell. At
that moment he knocked the hymn book
from the stand. It fell "slam" to the
floor. "There," said Dr. Nail, "he is
gone!" The effect was electric unon the
congregation.
Soon after the death of Mrs. Nail I
wrote Dr. Nail a letter of condolence.
In his reply he referred to Christ's comforting
his disciples as recorded In the
14-16 chaps, of John. In the expression
"It is expedient for you that I go away,"
he said the Greek word sumpherei (expedient)
might be rendered "I bear with
or I suffer with you." thus Indicating
his tender sympathy in the mutual sorrow
felt at their parting.
C. M. Hutton.
Polytechnic, Texas.
A PIONEER PRESBYTERIAN
PREACHER.
The Rev. P. H. Fullenwider was the
first kuown Presbyterian nreaehftr in
Texas. He came in 1831. After preaching
in other places for some time, he
came to this section, and in 1844 organized
Bethel church on Bedias Creek, ten
miles west from where the town of
Madisonville now is, and served that
church at intervals as stated Bupply
for twenty years. He taught two or
three sessions of school in the house
built of posts and clapboards, and which
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THE PRESBYTERIi
served for a time for both school and
meeting house- He was the only preacher
that ever occupied the parsonage
(manse), built on the church grounds.
He moved, in 1848, to Huntsville, Texas,
thirty miles away, and preached at other
points, but still gave part of his time
to Bethel. He always traveled on horseback,
and leaving home late in the evening
would ride fifteen to twenty-five
miles; then stop and stake his pony
and with his saddle for a pillow and
the 'sky for a covering, lie down alone?
except that the angels of the Lord
camped round about him?to rest and
sleep awhile in the deep shadows of the
lonely forest; then, rising before day,
come in to the neighborhood for breakfast
and be at the church on time. '
Houses were miles apart along the way,
and the yvoods were full of wild beasts
and venomous reptiles, but nothing ever
troubled him. Fierce dogs were kept
for protection of the homes, and strangers
usually had to be guarded in and
ou(; but he could go anywhere, at any
hour of the day or night, without molestation.
There were no bridges over
the streams and he often swam the
creeks, and occasionally the Navasota
River on his way to and from his appointments.
And thus, upon a salary
of perhaps never more than three or
four hundred dollars, he labored on for
years, often in loneliness and weariness
and danger, for the love of the
Master and the good of his fellow men.
He was called to his reward in 1866,
a victim of the yellow fever scourge
that swept away many of the best
people of his home town in that year.
Bethel church was located in the
center of a pleasant and thrifty neighborhood,
but time has made sad, sad
changes. Not a dwelling is In sight
or hearing. No congregations meet
there for religious worship now. Only
the graveyard remains, and it is truly
"a silent city of the dead." Only at
'such times as the people meet there
jto repair the graves or place to rest
}the remains of some departed one, is
[heard a sound, except the wild birds'
notes or sighing of the winds as they
sweep through the branches of the
[forest trees that surround the lonely
(place. At rest within its quiet bosom
[are the silent forms of scores of these
who once loved to meet each other and
(take nart in th*> aorvioao n' "
... , ?v mw* > ?vvo vj. vuo duuu"
fcuary, but now are gone from our sight.
jAged men and women, gone down at
the close of weary years of life's
struggles; strong men and women in
the prime of life, bravely bearing their
share of its burdens and care; young
men and maidens, who looked with
joyful anticipation toward the future;
and many, many precious little children
sleep the last sleep within its
somber confines.
; Notwithstanding its location and
gloom, because the graves of so many
of our kindred and loved ones are there,
to some of us, its precincts must ever
seem sacred.
E. L. ByersMadisonville,
Texas, June, 1911.
It is just as easy to go through life
looking for the good and the beautiful
instead of the ugly, for the noble instead
of the dark and gloomy, the hopeful
instead of the despairing?to see the
bright side instead of the dark side. To
set your face jiIwrvb tnwnrrt Hio mi"
light is Just as easy as to see always
the shadows; and it makes all the difference
in yonr character between content
and discontent, between happiness
and misery, and in your life between
prosperity and adversity, between success
and failure.?Orison Swett Marden
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I N OF THE SOUTH
A TEMPERANCE ALPHABET.
A stands for Alcohol, deathlike its
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B for Beginner, who takes just one sip;
C for Companion, who urges him on;
D for the Demon of drink that is born;
E for Endeavor he makes to resist;
F stands for Friends, who so loudly
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G for the Guilt he afterwards feels;
H for the Horror that hangs at his
heels;
I his Intention to drink not at all;
J stands for Jeering that follows his
fall;
K for a Knowledge that he is a slave;
L stands for Liquors his appetite craves;
M for convivial Meeting so gay;
N stands for No that he tries hard to
say;
O for the Orgies that then come to pass:
P stands for Pride that he drowns In
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Q for the Quarrels that nightly abound;
R stands for Ruin that hovers around;
S stands for Sights that his vision bedims;
T for the Trembling that seizes his
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U for his Usefulness sunk in the slums;
V for the Vagrant he quickly becomes;
W for Warning of life that's soon done;
X for his X-it regretted by none;
Youths of this nation, such weakness
is crime;
Zealously turn from the tempter In
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The Christian spirit is not one of
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buoyant confidence and Joy. We need
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