eaten supper."

Brown and Jones looked at Gramps with an expectant gaze, and continued
silent. Gramps went on, "It's high time we was doin' somethin' to
protect our church. I have been a deacon in this church fer many a year,
but to my mind this is the most dangerous time Mount Olivet has ever
seen."

Brown and Jones nodded a candid assent to what was being said. Gramps
continued, "For many years our church has been the strongest church in
this county and everybody has counted it an honor to belong to this
church, but you know, brethering, ever since our pastor died last
spring, and we have been without a pastor we have been gettin' weaker
and weaker. And since old Jake Benton has gone crazy over this new
religion of hisen he is trien to get everybody else to go crazy. You
brethering knows how I sent him down in the hills this summer to mind
cattle. Well he seemed to kinder git overbalanced in his mind down there
and he's found a new religion. You know how he testified in meetin'
tother night. He said he was saved from sin and he said he was
sanctified, and whole lot of other stuff like that. And I believe he
said, didn't he, that he was just as good as Jesus Christ and gettin'
better ever' day, or something like that."

"Yes, something like that," added Brown.

"Yes," said Jones, "I was there myself and heard him. I have always
thought Jake Benton was a pretty good man; but when a feller gets so
good as all that, then he's too good for this world. You know the Bible
says there's nobody good but God."