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Was not this Friend very ill, and didn't Johnny go to see him; and didn't he, when the Friend complained that he could get no sleep, and that not all the physic, the strongest opium even of the doctor's shop, could make him, didn't Johnny Darbyshire say right slap-bang out, which not another of the plainest-spoken Friends dare have done to a rich man like that, "Stuff and nonsense; and a fig for opium and doctor's stuff, send, man, send for the meeting-house bench, and lie thee down on that, and I'll be bound thou'lt sleep like one of the seven sleepers."
'Leave my house, young man; it's an honest house and a clean, and no fit place for a sinful swine. Get out, he says, "For without are dogs " With that he went on with a long text of Revelation that I won't repeat to you, sir, for I know your ears are nice, and it's out of one of the plainest-spoken parts of the Bible. Edgar turned as white as a sheet.
He noticed at once a directness, a simplicity, a spiritual flavor, coupled with much quoting of proof-texts, that attracted his deepest attention. He read an article on Repentance, one on Sanctification, and two testimonies of divine healing. "Upon my word! If that isn't the plainest-spoken and easiest-understood religious matter I have read in many a day," said Robert.
Why, many's the time I've driven fifteen miles to hear him. I used to like to go into Danville just for that reason. He used to be around there, and sometimes he'd talk a little. He could stir a fellow up." "Oratory alone won't make a statesman," I ventured, more to draw him out than to object. "Oh, I know," he answered, "but White was a good man. The plainest-spoken fellow I ever heard.
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