Talks and Tales (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Talks and Tales If any man on earth can appreciate a few weeks´ vacation, it is surely a hard-worked itinerant. I claim to belong to that class. During a ministry of seventeen years I have enjoyed two vacations, amounting together to just six weeks. But the old saw about the influence of all work and no play upon Jack is not without application to the average preacher. He loses nothing and gains much by an occasional trip for recreation and rest, and if he returns to his work with renewed health and spirits, his people arc gainers no less than himself. Without a dissenting voice my Quarterly Conference voted me a vacation, and I determined to improve it for all it was worth. It was typical August weather - hot and sweltering - but ideal weather for a trip to the North. The very next evening found me, grip in hand, at Harper´s Ferry, well known to Southern readers by the achievements of our Stonewall Jackson in the early sixties. The gray dawn of the following morning found me in Pittsburg, en route for Chautauqua. Two hours of leisure allowed me to see something of that mammoth hive of activity and enterprise. To say the least, Pittsburg is no mean city. But O, the smoke! Scores of chimneys were belching forth the dark clouds that settled over the city like a pall. At times it seemed more like dusk than dawn. I thought involuntarily of the ancient general who warned the commander of the opposing army that their arrows would fly so thick as to darken the sun. He received the reply: "We shall then have the advantage to fight in the shade." But one who has been accustomed all his life to the bright skies and fresh breezes of our Southland would be willing to forego this advantage if it could be purchased only at the expense of endless smoke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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