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Title: The Deacon of Dobbinsville
A Story Based on Actual Happenings

Author: John A. Morrison

Release Date: June 4, 2004 [EBook #12512]

Language: English

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THE DEACON OF DOBBINSVILLE

A Story Based on Actual Happenings

_By John A. Morrison_

Publisher's Preface

This narrative, written and first printed some 45 or 50 years ago,
depicts the contrast in that day between the nominal religious
professors on the one hand, and on the other the individuals who had
been soundly converted, made new creatures in Christ, filled with the
Holy Spirit and rejoicing on the "highway of holiness." There is a
distinct line of demarcation "between him that serveth God and him that
serveth him not."

The Apostle Paul warned: "For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears; and THEY SHALL TURN AWAY
THEIR EARS FROM THE TRUTH, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim.
4:4, 5. The religious world has apostatized much more since Paul's day,
even to the extent in this modern age that professors of Christianity
are proclaiming the blasphemous "God is dead" philosophy.

The author, John Arch Morrison, kindly granted this publisher his
permission to reprint this book. Here are his words in his own
handwriting dated October 26, 1965: "Dear Bro. in Christ, I have no
objection to you printing any number of 'The Deacon of Dobbinsville.'
Cordially, John A. Morrison."

Then hardly two months later, on December 23, 1965, and before this book
was printed, the author was taken suddenly from this life by a heart
attack at Anderson, Indiana in his 73rd year.

Time is rapidly bearing us all on to eternity. How all-important it is
that we remember constantly the words of the Psalmist: "So teach us to
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." The Wise Man
writes: "Let