The author has been unable to obtain the post office address of the
following names: Revs. S. Allen, R. H. Wright, T. Thomas, C. H. Ammons,
P. Shorter, J. Torbert, M. Davis, P. Battle, G. W. Moore, L. B.
Mitchell, R. Turpin, P. Johnson, E. R. Joseph, E. Crawford. For several
years Rev. L. P. Foster has been the missionary for this body.
Bro. Byrd Day, a pioneer in this part of the State, relates the
following interesting story: “As I could read in the days of slavery,
and as the people on the place wanted to know the sayings of God, as
they called the Bible, they bought me a Bible and got me to read for
them. We slaves were allowed night farms in those days. An acre or
so of land was given to each person wanting to work at night. Well,
in order that I might study the Bible, the other slaves on the place
worked my patch for me. So I studied the book and read it to them.”
The writer once spent a month in Eufaula giving Bible instruction to
ministers, and was paid by the “Ministers’ Association.”
FLINT RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Organized in 1884, is a small body of less than 1,000 members, and is
the result of a secession from the Muscle Shoals Association. Rev. F.
A. Chapman is its principal founder and perhaps is their strongest man.
MINISTERS.
Revs. F. A. Chapman, C. M. Davis, C. C. Matthews, Flint Station; G. W.
Garth, Crowton; R. Wilhoit, Cedar Plains; B. M. Key, D. Ward, S. M.
Robinson, Somerville; A. Brown, S. Gains, A. R. Eason, Huntsville; C.
Davis, Whitesburg; W. T. Connor, Madison; E. Powell, Hillsboro.
The writer has greatly enjoyed their quiet spirit and earnest labors.
However, he saw at their last session (1894) a rather ludicrous point
or gesture in the pulpit exercises. A brother, who is known to be an
upright man, as well as a very earnest and industrious man, was making
some remarks on the closing sermon of the session, when, becoming
very happy, he made a leap upward, which caused his brethren to fear
lest there would be a bruise, either in the ceiling, or on top of the
minister’s head. I would have, if I could have done so with propriety,
urged the brother to remember that “bodily exercise profits little,
while godliness is profitable unto all things,” and that “the spirit of
the prophet is subject to the prophet,” and “let all things be done
decently and in order.” However, I remember the day when most of the
white preachers in Alabama had in their sermons what some people are
disposed to call “the holy tone,” which was often accompanied by quite
a lot of physical exercise. This has become a thing of the past with
them in proposition, as they by culture, have been raised to see that
Christianity is Christly believing and Christly living. By the same
process, the same conditions will come upon us. So, we will still labor
and still wait.
FRIENDSHIP WESTERN UNION ASSOCIATION.
Organized in 1891, is a small body operating in a section lying south
of Anniston and Oxford.
POST OFFICES OF THEIR CHURCHES.
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