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a whole lot to do with the building of some churches. I believe his 

 Satanic majesty has been back of some of the business. Denomina- 

 tionalism is putting the church before Christ. There are a lot of 

 people in the United States who have churchianity that is not 

 Christianity. This condition is due to the different contention. 

 "I am right and the rest of you folks are wrong." "I am it and 

 the rest of you are nit." "We are right, we have the Bible." We 

 all have the Bible, when it comes to that; we all love the Bible, but 

 oh ! this awful curse of sectarianism. But I am glad we are living 

 when this thing is passing away. I think the day will come soon 

 that we will not have the emphasis on the particular beliefs of any 

 church and denomination preached, but that we will unite upon the 

 great fundamentals of the Christian faith of the past, and in such 

 united service bring the whole world to Him who alone is God ; then 

 we will be one in spirit and purpose and plan. You laymen must 

 get back of this movement, for I want to tell you that there is a 

 lot of prejudice against it, against the churches getting together. 

 These divided forces of the Lord Jesus Christ have hindered His 

 Kingdom's growth, and now the churches must unite to save the 

 whole wide world. 



I believe we should open our churches more than once a month. 

 I believe the church should stand back of this matter of scientific 

 agriculture. I have been a country preacher for almost twenty 

 years and I want to tell you some of my experience. 



I wanted to start a revival in one of my missions, but there 

 was not a professed Christian in the community. It was an old 

 abandoned church, a beautiful one. It had been left an endowment 

 so that the church might be kept up and the endowment was care- 

 fully used. The folks thought they would like to have a meeting. 

 I knew they were not greatly interested in a revival, but they were 

 beginning to get interested in dairying. They found that they could 

 sell their cream for a better price in Decatur than they could by 

 making the cream into butter and selling that. And the thought 

 struck me to get a man to come and talk on dairying on the first 

 night of the revival. 



My mother was a United Presbyterian and my father was a 

 Covenanter Presbyterian — and that is some combination. I was 

 brought up to think it was wrong to whistle on Sunday. We went 

 to and from the church only on the Sabbath, and made the journey 

 every week. One fall I was twenty-two years old and my brother 

 was pretty near thirty; we were living at home; we were men; 



