Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Foreordination. [ARTICLE]

Foreordination.

Tears ago an old hard-shell preacher who lived on the border in the days when the Indians were at war with the whites, was making preparations one mprning to go to his church, miles away, through a country infested with savages. He was carefully loading his old flintlock rifle to take along, when a friend present remarked : “What are you going to take that gun along for, old man? Don’t you know that if it is foreordained for the Indians to kill you, the gun won’t savo you?’’ “That’s very true,” said the old man as he deliberately rammed the ball hofne, “but suppose it is foreordained that the Indian shall be killed? Now, how would the good Lord carry out his purpose if I didn’t have my gun along?” That closed the debate.—l Summerville (Ga.) News.