WILL MAKES WAY.



doctrinal character that was not pure ortho-
doxy as held by the Bible and the Methodists.
Nearly twenty-two years I have done full work
as a banker, and have been preaching as op-
portunity presented the duty. My first pub-
lished work was " Christians, or Disciples," my
second "Sermons and Parables." These two
can be found at our Southern Methodist Pub-
lishing House, Nashville, Tenn. Where they
have been read they have done good and given
satisfaction. Plain and easily understood, not
full of scholastic bombast and pretensions.
  My eyes are now turned toward the grave
and heaven. I expect to see the King in his
beauty. Near the door of death I have been
called several times, but felt no alarm. "Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shad-
ow of death, I will fear no evil." May all the
young people who read these pages remember
their Creator in the days of their youth. The
promise to them reads, "They that seek me
early shall find me." The aged have no such
promise. Let an old man's experience and
mature judgment persuade them that their



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