INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM

By

The Reverend John Elmore DuBois

Edited by Elizabeth A. DuBois
(c) 1998  DuBois Publishing Co, Simsbury, Connecticut. All rights
reserved.

Rev. DuBois' reply:

	Explanatory

   Mr. Editor- I suppose it is my duty to notice the complaint of Rev.
E.V. LeVert's sons, as it appeared in the Advocate of a week or two
past.

	I am certain that it was not my intention to injure the enviable
reputation of my old friend; and as to doing him an "injustice," nothing
was further from my thoughts. In my papers, I have had frequent occasion
to speak of Bro. LeVert, and have always done so in a spirit of
kindness; and while I have complimented him in very high terms, I do not
feel that I have been extravagant on the one hand nor unjust on the
other. I admit all that his sons said of his habits of study in early
life, and preparation for the ministry, and could say even more than
they; but this does not affect the truth of what I said of his preaching
in advanced life- that "his preaching was not uniform, for while he
often surpassed expectation, he sometimes fell below it." As he grew
older, like most men, he tired of study, and often said to his friends
that he could not study as once he did.

	Bro. LeVert was my friend for half a century. We were intimate, and our
association was marked by unbroken love and charity, He was a few years
my senior. As we grew old together, I used to think, "which shall be
called first?" He has gone before me, and when we meet beyond the
beautiful river, which will not be long, he will never accuse me of
"injustice." Hoping that these remarks may right all imagined wrongs,
and heal all wounds unintentionally made by me, I am, yours truly,

Jno. DuBois
Eutaw, Ala.

[To be continued]

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