hardships they endured in order to meet together in that uncomfortable tiny log church. They had to get up very early to take care of their livestock before they left for church. They had to get themselves ready without indoor plumbing and electricity. They had to hitch up the horses to the wagon. When they got to church, there was no automatic heat/air conditioning. There was no sound system, comfy padded pews, elaborate organ, grand piano, a band. There was no Sunday school materials and study Bibles. Education was simple or nil. My 4th great grandfather had no formal seminary training or college education. He could read the Bible and that was all he had. And yet, in The History of the French Broad Association by John Ammonsit says, "He had but little education, but he was a man of fine common sense; He loved God and humanity, and devoted his life with all that that meant to preaching to lost men the gospel of salvation from sin. He was a man of one book - the Bible. God's word was the armory whence he drew his weapons, and his sermons were made up of scripture quotations so nicely dovetailed together that to the listener he seemed a very evangel delivering a message from the spirit world. The writer heard him when a small boy, and to his latest acquaintance with him his words made his heart to burn. All who knew him loved him, and yet he lived and died in poverty, his only