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Contents
Page, CHAPTER I.
1800.
Place of Birth and Ancestry.
Chapter II. 1800-1822
Paternal Grandmother. — Learning the Alphabet. — Washington- Henry Academy. — "Parson Hughs." — A Leader among Boys. — His* Father. — His Mother. — ■ Various Schoolmasters. — First Attempt at Teaching. — Enters Hampden-Sidney College. — Boom-mates. — How Awakened. — Wrestling in Prayer in the Woods. — (Rev.) Daniel A. Penick. — Students' Prayer Meeting. — Received into the College Church 22
Chapter III. 1820-1824
Teaching in his Father's Family. — A Profitable Prayer Meeting. — Gilbert Tennent Snowden. — Death of his Father. — Seeing his Way into the Ministry. — Dr. John H. Rice. — Mrs. John H. Rice. — Their Home. — Anecdotes about Dr. Rice. — Dr. Rice's Death. —Re-enters College. — How he Gets through College __ 32
CHAPTER IY.
1822-1827.
Graduates. — Teaches School in Farmville. — Taken under Care of Presbytery. — Opening of Union Theological Seminary. — Stud- 7
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ies there while Teaching in Farmville. — Anecdote of Dr. B. H. Bice. — Licensed, April 30, 1827. — Anecdote of Dr. Bice; or, How to Treat Other Denominations. — Goes as Home Missionary to Nottoway. — Letter of Encouragement from Dr. B. H. Bice. — Sketches and Anecdotes of the Two Bices, and of Dr. William S. Beid 43
Chapter V. 1827-1832
Shiloh ^Church Built. — Fruits of Five Years' "Work in Nottoway, Lunenburg, Amelia and Dinwiddie. — Jeter's Bace-track. — Dr. Bice's Wise Counsel to him in Despondency. — Baptists and Methodists. — Marriage. — Generosity of Dr. James Jones. — Uncle Jack, "The African Preacher." — Anecdotes of him. — The Dying Infidel. — Encomium by Dr. Pry or 54
CHAPTER VI. Pastoral Sketches
Infidelity in Prospect of Death. — • ' Caught with Guile. " — Interested Hearers. — Anti-Presbyterianism Cured. — "The Devil Threw him Down and Tore him. " — Early Conversion : E. F. P. ; E. W. W. ; A. B. ; A. H. ; E. S. ; A. A. B 69
Chapter VII. 1832-1836
Leaves Nottoway for Scottsville, Va. — Mr. (afterwards Bev. Dr. ) Peyton Harrison Builds a Parsonage for him at his own Charges. — Bevival. — Bev. Daniel Baker. — Accepts Agency for American Tract Society. — Observations on his Agency and Similar Enterprises Auxiliary to the Church 90
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