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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...he took him for an assistant. They would visit the towns, especially on Saturdays, as then there would be many farmers in; and going about among the wagons and teams, would make inquiries about the different schools in the various neighborhoods where the farmers lived, thus securing much desirable information in a little time, besides saving miles of travel. Once they were passing through a settlement to reach a place they had heard of in this way, when they came upon an old field school-house with the chimney leaning one way and the house another. The chinking and daubing had all dropped out from between the logs. It was determined that a school must be organized here; and so they hunted up the only man who had ever been a christian and told him they proposed to have a Sunday-school meeting. He said it was impossible to have a school, for the people must have Sunday for fishing and hunting. He did not go himself, but every one else did. The missionary insisted on trying to start a school, and asked him to be superintendent. He said: "Well, in the first place you won't start the school. Then, in the second place, if you do, they won't have me for superintendent." He sent his son around on old " Bob" to every house in the neighborhood to tell the people to come out that night to a Sundayschool meeting at the school-house. They came. The boys brought their guns, horns, and hounds. They stacked their guns in one corner. While the speaker was addressing them, the dogs outside got into a fight. As soon as a dog was whipped, he would run into the house, as the door was off" its hinges. Two men put the door cross-wise, and held it to keep the dogs out, while the Sunday-school was being organized. After the meeting the boys began to blow th...
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- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1236416716
- ISBN 13 9781236416711
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine40
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