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The Round Preacher; Or, Reminiscences of Methodist Circuit Life [by J. Clarke].
The Round Preacher Or Reminiscences of Methodist Circuit Life - by J. Clarke Author:Joseph Clarke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. " GOD DOES NOW GIVE REMISSION OF SINS AND THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST, AND OFTEN IN DREAMS AND VISIONS OF God." -- Wesley's Journal. I was so far recovered as to be able to attend the "Love-feast" in the Circuit-town. Mrs. Sleekface accompanied me to the vestry to give out the " notes of admission." "Brother Sparks," said Mrs. Sleekface as we went along, " we must be very careful to whom we give notes; there are some persons who are very fond of enjoying our means of grace, without being members of society, and contributing to its support; we must refuse such persons notes of admission, after the second or third time." We had not been in the vestry five minutes, before a woman with three children applied for a "note." Mrs. Sleekface looking sternly at her, thus addressed her: " If you wish, Mrs. Tibbs, to become a partaker of the blessed means of grace of our body, you must become a member of our society. Our rule is, to give a person a note of admission only twice or thrice; but you have had half-a-dozen. And besides, what do you bring three children with you for? unless it is to eat the cake. If every woman was to bring three children with her, the chapel would not hold half the congregation, and the cake would not go half round; and besides, I know your character is not over good." The last words, stung the woman into a rage, and she vehemently replied. " I'm as good as you any day; though you spout away in the pulpit, and tell folks as you are I knowner how many miles ahead of sanctifi. cation. Give your children plenty to eat, and give the poor a trifle out of your stinking thous...« less