Timothy Standby Author:Joseph Clark Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. TIMOTHY'S CONVE,RSION To the Organized Sunday School Work at the Marion Convention. Marion, Ohio, June 8, 1899. Dear Marthy:—The grate Sunday Skoo... more »l Convenshun at Marion has came and went, and here I am on Thursday nite a-sittin up to mid- nite a-writin that ere letter I promised. I would never promised to rite a letter if I had enny idee how much wuz a-goin on at State Conven- shuns. When I wuz elected as the "delegashun" from the Brush Fork Sunday Skool to the grate State Convenshun, you know what a grate bur- din wuz rolled on me, and how fer days I wuz kinder unlike myself, a-worryin about the awful responsibility of bein a "delegashun." It wuz the sollumest thing that wuz ever dun to Timothy Stand-by. You know I had never bin to but one political convenshun, and from that minit I wuz allers an ennemy to convenshuns of enny kind, especially where wimmin wuz atakin part. But when our Sunday Skool laid its holy hands on Timothy and sed "go," I felt that the rebelyun in my heart must be put down, and if it wuz the Lord's will that I should pass through a convenshun, by his grace I would do my duty. When I wuz on the train a-cummin to the convenshun the delegashun wuz very hilarious. They wuz a-laughin and a-talkin, and wuz very giddy-like for people what wuz a-goin to such a holy meetin as a Sunday Skool Convenshun. And when I left the train, I let the delegashuns what wuz so gay go on, and I follered after, kinder slow, like I allers walked when I wuz a pallbearer. It wuz a strait walk to the church where the convenshun wuz held, and I poured into the buildin with the rest of the people. There wuz no Amen corner fer me to get into and feel to home, but I got on a frunt seet and waited. Peeple wuz a-talkin and smilin and greetin each other like as if they w...« less