sed to
workin', he'd say: 'The things of this world are temporal, but the
things of the other world are eternal. The soul of man is eternal, and
this world can never content it. I've seen the abiding-place o' the
soul,' he'd say, 'and I'm like a homesick child.' Mother said nobody
appeared to understand the old man, and his wife'd be so fretted and
outdone with him that she'd say that if a person went into a trance,
they might as well stay in it, for Job hadn't been any use to the
world since he come out of his.

"Well, when the revival was over, and all the converts had been
received into the church, Brother Wilson called a meetin' o' the
session and says he, 'There's two things to be done now. We've got to
come up out of that old graveyard, and build a church in town that'll
stand as a monument to this generation of Presbyterians long after
their bodies have gone back to the old graveyard and moldered into
dust; and while we're doing that,' says he, 'we must bring this
congregation up to the standards the church has set for its members.'
And he got the session to pass resolutions sayin' that all sinful and
worldly pleasures like cyard-playin' and horse-racin' and dancin' was
forbidden to church-members, and that the Sabbath day must be kept
holy and no member of the church could ride or walk or take a journey
on the Sabbath unless it was to do some work of necessity or mercy.
Says he, 'This flock has been without a shepherd so long that the Good
Shepherd himself could hardly tell which are the sheep and which are
the goats. But,' says he, 'the time has come when every man has got to
take his stand on the right hand or on the left, so the world can
know what he is.'

"Well, of course these strict rulin's went mighty hard with some o'
the church people, for, havin' been without a preacher so long, they'd
got clean out of their religious ways. I ricollect they elected old
Mr. Joe Bigsby superintendent of the Sunday-school, and the very first
Sunday he was examinin' the children to see if their parents had
taught 'em the things they ought to know, and he called on Johnny West
to say the Lord's Prayer, and John was talkin' to the boy next to him
and didn't hear. The old man was mighty quick-tempered, and he
hollered out: 'John West! You John! Confound you, sir! Stand up and
say the Lord's Prayer.' And then he ricollected himself, and he turned
around to Brother Wilson, and says he, 'Now, I know that ain't any way
for a