n shingles, and when he'd gethered his corn
the next fall, he promised to give twenty-five barrels o' corn;
another elder paid fifteen dollars in pork, and one o' the deacons who
had a two-horse wagon paid sixty dollars in haulin'; and the saddlers
and the tailors paid their part in saddlery and tailorin'. It's many a
day, honey, since they laid the corner-stone o' that church, and
there ain't a crack in the walls yet. The only good work is the work
that love does, and in them days folks loved their churches jest as
they loved their homes, and the work that went into that church was
good work. I ricollect the Sunday they dedicated it the first hymn
was,

"'I love thy kingdom, Lord,
The house of thine abode,
The church our blest Redeemer saved
With his own precious blood.'

"Me and Abram was there, for the country churches and the town
churches was friendlier then than they are now. If the Goshen church
was without a preacher Brother Wilson'd come out every third Sunday
and preach for us, and if the weather and the travelin' was good, the
Goshen folks'd go to town to preachin'.

"Now here I am tellin' about the dedicatin' of the church before I git
through with the buildin'.

"Well, when the church was about half done, things begun to go wrong
amongst the congregation. Somebody give a dancin'-party at the tavern,
and two o' Judge Grace's daughters was there, and the old judge
himself dropped in and looked at the dancin' a while; and before
folks'd got through talkin' about that, here come the news that Squire
Schuyler had taken a journey on the Sabbath day, and, besides that,
he'd been heard usin' profane language. Of course it all come to
Brother Wilson's ears, and as soon as he heard it he didn't lose any
time callin' a meetin' of the session, and they summoned the old judge
and the squire to appear before 'em and answer to the charges that was
brought against 'em.

"The session was in the habit o' meetin' in old Doctor Brigham's
office, and when they come together Judge Grace was on hand, and he
explained how he'd gone to the tavern to bring his daughters home, and
the gyirls wasn't quite ready to go home, and he had to stay and wait
for 'em; and says he, 'I acknowledge that I did go into the hall where
the young folks was dancin', and I stood and looked at 'em a while.
And,' says he, 'I might 'a' patted my foot, keepin' time to the music,
for they was dancin' a Virginia reel, and it's mighty h