As  they  rode  along  together,  he  remarked  in  his  own
frank  and  peculiar  manner :

"  Brother  Campbell,  I  have  seen  some  of  these  preachers
who  were  educated  for  the  ministry  in  the  eastern  col-
leges ;  and  I  was  much  surprised  to  find  in  you  an  entire
want  of  gesture  and  manner.  You  leaned  upon  your  cane
easily,  though  somewhat  awkwardly,  and  talked  as  men
commonly  talk."

"  I  long  ago  studied  all  those  arts  of  elocution  of  which
you  speak,  brother  John,"  said  Campbell ;  "  but  I  have
conscientiously  refrained  from  any  attempt  to  use  them."

Smith  looked  at  him  with  curious  surprise.
"The  apostles,"  continued  Mr.  Campbell,  "were  sent
forth  as  witnesses  to  a  certain  great  fact.  Suppose  that
one  of  them  should,  in  making  his  statement  before  the
people,  have  plied  his  arms  in  gesticulations,  stamped  his
foot  in  vehemence,  and  declared  his  testimony  in  the  ears
of  the  people,  in  a  loud,  stentorian  voice  ? "

"  I  would  not  have  believed  one  word  he  said,"  inter-
rupted Smith.
"  But  how  weightily  fell  the  words  of  these  first  preach-
ers," said  Mr.  Campbell,  "  when,  with  composure  of  man-
ner, natural  emphasis,  and  solemn  deliberation,  they  spoke
forth  the  words  of  truth  and  soberness  ! "

After  crossing  the  Licking  River,  and  while  slowly  riding
up  the  hill  beyond,  Smith,  who  wished  to  understand  Mr.
Campbell's  view  definitely  on  the  subject  of  Christian  Ex-
perience, inquired :

"  Brother  Campbell,  I  suppose  you  had  something  that
the  populars  call  an  experience,  did  you  not  ? "


168  LIFE  OF  ELDER  JOHN  SMITH.
"  Oh  !  yes,  I  had  an  experience,"  replied  Campbell.
