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CHAPTER
Brother Tom Pratt, a Prominent Member, Had Backslided
With Such Sad Hunger in Their Faces
"I'll Pay You, Parson. I'll Pay as Soon as I'm Able"
I Heard Him in His Study Singing
"It's Going to Be an Awful Night, Don't Go--She Is Not a Member of Your Church"
Then He Took Up with Job in the Scriptures
Not So Much for Him as for Fear He Would Not Understand
I AM CHOSEN INSTEAD OF THE PRAYER MEETING VIRGIN
If you will look back over the files of the "Southern Christian Advocate," published at the time in Macon, Georgia, you will find the following notice--by a singular coincidence on the page devoted to "obituaries": "Married--Mary Elizabeth Eden to William Asbury Thompson. The bride is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Eden, of Edenton; the groom is the son of the late Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Asbury Thompson, and is serving his first year in the itinerancy on the Redwine Circuit. We wish the young people happiness and success in their chosen field."
"Chosen field" had reference to the itinerancy, not matrimony. And that was my "obituary" if I had only known it. For after that, if I was not dead to the world, I only saw it through the keyhole of the Methodist Discipline, or lifted and transfigured by William's sermons--a straight and narrow path that led from the church door to the grave.
But now, after an absence of thirty years, I am addressing this series of letters to the people of the world concerning life and conditions in another, removed from this one by the length of long country roads, by the thickness of church doors, and by the plate glass surface of the religious mind. They will record some experiences of two Methodist itinerants and whatever I think besides, for they are written more particularly to relieve my mind of a very great burden of opinions. For William has been promoted. He has received his LL. D. in the Kingdom of Heaven by this time if there are any degrees or giving of degrees there, along with Moses and Elijah, and I doubt if there is a more respected saint in that great company. We buried him a year ago in the graveyard behind Redwine Church.
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