Baptist Pioneer.



him, he went on preaching a considerable time
before he was baptized, no administrator being
near, many being converted under his labors."
  Shortly after his conversion, and before his
baptism, he was indicted by the grand jury
"for holding unlawful conventicles, and preach-
ing the Gospel contrary to law". It is recorded
by Dr. J. H. Spencer that "when the jury by
whom he was being tried went to a tavern for
refreshments, he treated them to a bowl of grog,
and while they were drinking it, got their atten-
tion and spoke to them to the following pur-
port: 'Gentlemen-I thank you for your atten-
tion to me. When I was about this court-
yard, in all kinds of vanity, folly and vice,
you took no notice of me; but when I have for-
saken all the vices, and am warning men to
forsake, and repent of their sins, you bring me
to the bar as a transgressor. How is all this'"
  John Waller, who was so profane and reck-
less that he was known as "Swearing Jack"
and the "Devil's Adjutant", was one of the
jury' and the "meekness and solemnity of
manner" of Mr. Craig impressed him so deeply
that he could not be rid of it, and was finally,
in about eight months, says Spencer, con-
verted, and became a Baptist preacher-"the
most picturesque of the early Baptist ministers
of Virginia"-a whole-souled defender of the
people whom he had once so bitterly opposed



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