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.

EIGHT [cont.]

Building Churches

	Seaborn Mims built a church in the neighborhood of Robert Jemison that
was signalized by the conversion of one layman, whose life and labors
were sufficient to compensate for all he ever built.  This was Geo C.
King, once sheriff of Perry county.

	His conversion was rather a remarkable one.  He had a severe struggle
with the world.  He was avaricious and prosperous.  His great source of
income was from usury.  Conscience smote him.  He strove for pardon, but
refused to turn loose his idol.  He was my neighbor, and talked to me
freely and intimately.  Miss Jaqueline Bird was his sister-in-law.  He
said she was going to heaven, but he to hell.  He unbosomed himself also
to Rev. E.V. LeVert.  Through him, as far as possible, he made
restitution, after he had quit the business of "shaving paper," and then
had a bright and glorious manifestation of his acceptance.  He live to
do much good by labor, precept and example and closed his days in peace
and triumph at Summerfield, Ala., where his memory is embalmed in the
heart of people.

[to be continued]

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