whole summer herding cattle down in the hills about thirty miles from
here. While he was down there in the woods all alone with nothing to
occupy his mind, he fell to musing on the death of his little girl who
died a good many years previously to that time and it seems that he
became mentally unbalanced, at least on religious matters. According to
the information given me, he came in contact at this time with a
religious paper teaching strange doctrines, and he embraced these
doctrines and began advocating them with great zeal. As I said before,
he was excommunicated from this church for teaching such doctrines, but
in leaving the church he took a number of our most trusted and tried
members, for instance, the Gray family. Those were the days of great
excitement in this community. It was about this time that I was called
to the pastorate of this church. A few months after my coming Benton and
his bunch got an evangelist from over east, somewhere, to come here, and
he made a mighty stir along heretical lines and many of the best
citizens of our community were drawn into the delusive net. Some of us,
in those days, stood firm in the faith and employed every thinkable
means to stamp out the nefarious cult; and allow me to humbly say that
had it not been for Deacon Gramps and me and a few other faithful ones,
our cause at that time would have been completely lost.

"But I stand today, my brethren, as I have always stood--unalterably
opposed to the program of the holiness movement. First, I oppose
holiness itself--the doctrine that a man can live free from sin in this
life. How foolish, how utterly ridiculous, the idea. We all sin. Our
fathers sinned, we sin, and our posterity will sin. Do you see that
streak of sunshine that comes in at the window and falls upon the floor?
See in the sunlighted atmosphere a million dust particles. Let the air
represent our lives and let the dust particles represent our sins, and
you will have an idea as to how many sins we commit. Away with the