t he had a heart

Cumberlander Bennight predicatory at pcti.co.uk
Sat Mar 27 23:26:33 UTC 2010


Ia; and he read them, digested their contents, and constantly
surprised

his cultivated bearers by the affluence of his knowledge, and

the fertility of his literary and classic allusion. He wrote with
elegance and force. His weak point was orthography.
He would trip sometimes in the spelling
of the most common words. His explanation of this weakness

was curious: He was a printer in Mobile, Alabama. On one occasion
a thirty-two-page book-form of small type was "pied." "I undertook,",
said he, "to set
that pied form to rights, and, in doing so, the words got so mixed in
my brain that my spelling was spoiled forever!" He went to Oregon,
and traveled and preached

from the Cascade Mountains to Idaho, thrilling, melting, and amusing,
in
turn, the crowds that came out to hear the wild-looking man whose
coming was so sudden, and whose going as so rapid, that they were
lost in wonder, as if gazing at a meteor that flashed across the sky.
He was a Yankee from New Hampshire,

who, going to Alabama, lost his heart, and was ever afterward
intensely Southern in all his convictions and affections.
His fiery soul found congenial spirits among the generous,
hotblooded people of the Gulf States, whose very faults had a sort of
charm for this impulsive, generous, erratic, gifted, man. He made his
way back to his
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