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too narrow, they couldn't turn around for fear of falling off, 

 nur they couldn't go through one another, and to hit that 

 bilin' water down below were surely death to a goat or a 

 sheep. Now my breth-ren, right thar was a dilema wan't thar ? 

 Didn't it look like thar was a dilema thar? Well, thar wernt. 

 No, my brethren, thar wernt narry need to be a dilema thar. 

 I'll tell what they done, why the sheep squatted down and the 

 goat jumped over, and right thar was the meekness of the 

 lamb ; and oh, my dear breth-ren and sisters, thar's a way out 

 of every trouble ; its to squat, why squat, jist to squat, in the 

 name of my lowly Master squat, git down, git down ; oh, my 

 dear breth-ren, be ready always to squat, when the dilemas of 

 life come — be ready to squat. 



PREAC^HER REID. 



Brother Reid was an uneducated mountain preacher, could 

 read the scriptures with difficulty, but he thoroughly under- 

 stood the plan of salvation, and could illustrate it with great 

 force to his people, was as solid and orthodox in his principles 

 as the rocks that surrounded him. He was to preach in Horse 

 Cove, where Judge Whitner, from Anderson, S. C, was 

 spending the summer. 



He was informed by some of the brethren that the great 

 Judge Whitner had come out to hear him preach, that he 

 must do his very best on that occasion. 



When Brother Reid rose to line out his hymn it could be 

 plainly seen that something was weighing heavily upon his 

 mind. He started to read, then hesitated, then stopping short 

 and looking around most solemnly at the people, said : " I 

 have been told by some of the breth-ren to do my best to- day, 

 for the great Judge Whitner has come here to hear me preach. 



