e men went home and told their wives all about it,
and before the next day everybody was talkin' about Brother Wilson
resignin', and the church-members lined up, some on the squire's side
and some on the preacher's side, jest like they did in Goshen church
the time we got the new organ. There was the church walls goin' up,
and both sides had put money into 'em, and neither side had money
enough to buy the other side out, and neither side wanted to be
bought out. And the squire's side, they'd say, 'We've got the money,
and you can't have a church without money.' And the preacher's side,
they'd say, 'But we've got the members and the preacher, and you can't
have a church without church-members and a preacher.' And they had it
up and down and back and forth, and the Methodists and Babtists, they
took sides, and such quarrelin' and disputin' you never heard. Some o'
the outsiders went to Brother Wilson, and says they, 'You Christian
people are settin' a mighty bad example to us outsiders. Can't
somethin' be done,' says they, 'to stop this wranglin' amongst the
churches?'

"And Brother Wilson, he laughed at 'em, and says he, 'Open your Bibles
and find out who it was said, "I came not to send peace, but a
sword."' Says he, 'The word of the Lord is a two-edged sword, and all
this disturbance means that the Lord is visiting his church and his
spirit is striving with the spirit of man.'

"Well, matters was standin' in this loose, unj'inted way when all at
once Squire Schuyler's weddin' invitations come out. Everybody knew he
was waitin' on Miss Drusilla Elrod, but nobody expected the weddin'
that soon, and folks begun speculatin' about who he'd have say the
weddin' ceremony, and Judge Grace says: 'Now see what a man makes by
havin' such curious ideas and bein' so rash in his speech. Here's a
big weddin' fee that ought to go into a Presbyterian pocket, and
instead o' that, it'll fall to some Babtist or Methodist preacher.'

"But--bless your life!--the day before the weddin', Squire Schuyler's
carriage drove up to the parsonage, and the coachman got out and
knocked at the door and handed in a letter with a big red seal, and it
was from the squire, askin' Brother Wilson to say the weddin' ceremony
over him, and promisin' to send his carriage to bring him and Mis'
Wilson to the weddin'.

"Well, that weddin' was the talk o' the town and the country for many
a day before and after it happened. They had cyarpet spread from the
gat