Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — WHEN SID SAW THE LIGHT. [ARTICLE]

WHEN SID SAW THE LIGHT.

Morocco Courier: Forty years ago an old illiterate circuit rider, with a rusty stovepipe hat, pair of saddle bags, and mounted on a one-eyed, blue, | grass-feed gelding, could ride into ! a neighborhood, and singing a few good-old-fashioned hymns, a little preachin' of the word, accompanied with sundry and divers blows on the desk with his calloused fist, could, in a few nights, bring a Pentecostial shower that would revive and gladden the entire school district. On such occasions old neighborhood feuds would be buried and little misunderstandings explained and forgiven; and the people would begin their spring plantin’ as fresh and clean and sweet as a fifteen year old girl in a new white i muslin dress. But how do you 1 find things now, my dear brother? I With all our fine churches 3 and educated preachers, our fine singers, our large pipe organs, etc, is the work being done now better or even as good as that done by the old circuit rider in the little unpainted school-house, forty and fifty years ago? This subject is not mentioned in a flippant manner or with any desire to appear funny. It is something which, we believe, suggests itself occasionally to many a minister, when, in these days of wealthgetting and pride, he oftentimes labors so long and faithfully among his people and apparently without results.