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The School of the Prophets, Or, Father Mcrorey's Class, and 'squire Firstman's Kitchen Fire
The School of the Prophets Or Father Mcrorey's Class and 'squire Firstman's Kitchen Fire Author:John Carroll General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 2008-06 Original Publisher: Magurn Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / American / General Religion / Christianity / Methodist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or... more » missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XI A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LONG PROCEEDING. the morning, notwithstanding the late hours of the preceding night, they were up and of betimes, riding two and two, and adding to the cavalcade every half day, or so, until they reached the Conference, which took them nearly a week. They knew the country well: that is to say, they knew where the good stopping places were -- where to " bate" and where " to stop over night" -- as also how to distribute themselves, so that some of the hostelries should not " be eased, while others were burdened, but that there should be equality." At night, they usually agreed on the place of rendezvous for the next day. There was prayer in every family where any one or two of them called; and usually preaching every night by some of the brethren. You must not suppose a day's ride was very long; not often over thirty miles. Their horses were heavily laden, and some might have to traverse the Province nearly from end to end before they reached their fields of labor for the next twelve months, and they felt the importance of keeping their noble animals in travelling trim. Hence they usually arrived in time to circulate word that one of thepreachers on his way to Conference would preach in such a chapel, school-house, or private residence. Each preacher usually aired his eloquence in turn: so that they had a chance of hearing and profiting by each other. There was preaching as diversified as the respective talents...« less