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An obvious means of relief lay in the founding of separate congregations to which the white ministers occasionally preached and in which white laymen often sat, but where the pulpit and pews were commonly filled by blacks alone. There the sable exhorter might indulge his peculiar talent for "'rousements" and the prayer leader might beseech the Almighty in tones to reach His ears though afar off.
No one asked the minister home to dinner, an unusual thing, and so he went his way, puzzled and wondering. Before church that night, the congregation met together for conference. The exhorter of the morning himself opened proceedings by saying, "Brothahs an' sistahs, de Lawd has opened ouah eyes to wickedness in high places." "Oom oom oom, he have opened ouah eyes," moaned an old sister.
If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dogfight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first; or if there was a camp-meeting, he would be there reg'lar to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here, and so he was, too, and a good man.
She came out from behind the bar and confronted him with the question: "Look 'ere, you ain't one o' them exhorters from the Missionaries' Camp, are you?" The road agent smiled. "My profession has its faults," he acknowledged, "but I am not an exhorter." But still the Girl was nonplussed, and eyed him steadily for a moment or two.
A young negro belonging to an officer in one of the regiments was sent home, and his place as cook was filled by Uncle Cage, a venerable looking old negro, who held the distinguished post of "exhorter" in the neighborhood.
From early life he was always a zealous exhorter to the devout worship of Almighty God as the only Illuminator and Helper of men.
I did not suppose that General Hardin's friends were in any greater need of having their feelings corrected than mine were." The original is now owned by Mrs. In May, Lincoln was nominated. His Democratic opponent was Peter Cartwright, the famous Methodist exhorter. Cartwright had been in politics before, and made an energetic canvass.
"That is all very fine, and you would make a pretty fair exhorter with practice. But natural theology is not in my line. These hills look nicely now, but it will be different within a month. If I am to learn peace from a fine day, what from a stormy one?
A gratuitous and purely imaginative description of a great religious revival in Calaveras, in which the sheriff of the county a notoriously profane sceptic was alleged to have been the chief exhorter, resulted only in the withdrawal of the county advertising from the paper. In the midst of this practical confusion he suddenly died.
Living! why, I have heard say that he blew a fife for he was a musical as well as a Christian professor a bold fife, to cheer the Guards and the brave Marines as they marched with measured step, obeying an insane command, up Bunker's height, whilst the rifles of the sturdy Yankees were sending the leaden hail sharp and thick amidst the red-coated ranks; for Philoh had not always been a man of peace, nor an exhorter to turn the other cheek to the smiter, but had even arrived at the dignity of a halberd in his country's service before his six-foot form required rest, and the grey-haired veteran retired, after a long peregrination, to his native town, to enjoy ease and respectability on a pension of "eighteen-pence a day"; and well did his fellow-townsmen act when, to increase that ease and respectability, and with a thoughtful regard for the dignity of the good church service, they made him clerk and precentor the man of the tall form and of the audible voice, which sounded loud and clear as his own Bunker fife.
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