"Then  fall  back  and  follow;  cowards  shouldn't
'ride  abreast  with  men."

In  illustration  of  his  nonconformity  to  clerical
appearance,  take  the  following :  Having  occasion  to
traverse  Kentucky  from  Louisville,  where  he  was
then  stationed,  to  one  of  the  southern  counties,  he
stopped,  at  the  end  of  a  hard  day's  travel,  at  a  lonely
cabin,  where  lived  a  Dutchman  and  his  family.  After
supper  mine  host,  who  was  as  inquisitive  as  a  tin-
peddler,  commenced  catechising  the  stranger,  asking
all  manner  of  questions,  such  as,  "  Where  did  you
come  from  ?  "Where  are  you  going  to  ?  You're  a  law-
yer, I  suppose  ?  No  ?  Then  you  must  be  a  doctor  ?"
To  all  of  which  and  many  more,  our  friend  responded
as  briefly  as  possible.  The  bewildered  Dutchman  at
length  exclaimed,  "  What  are  you  then  ?"

"  A  preacher."

"  A  preacher !"  incredulously  exclaimed  the  old
Teuton,  "  What  sort  of  a  preacher  ?  Episcopal  ?"

"Ko."

"Presbyterian?"

"  No."

"  What  then  ?"

"  A  Methodist."

"A  Methodist!     What,  in  them   clothes?     Good


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Lord !  if  I  had  gone  out  to  shoot  a  preacher,  I  would
never  have  pulled  trigger  at  you  !"

By  way  of  administering  a  sound  reproof  to  him
for  being  handsome,  and  looking  well  in  his  clothes,
his  superiors  sent  him  one  year — the  fourth  of  his
ministry — to  a  region  of  country  where  it  was  thought
he  would  be  broken  down,  or  broken  in.  He  had
already  seen  hard  service;  more  than  once  had  he
ridden  at  full  speed,  chased  by  a  pack  of  yelling
Indians,  their  bullets  whistling  round  him  like  hail.
