. Jasper Douthit's story; the autobiography of a pioneer. ryou do, you must always speak the truth, behonest with everybody, and go to meeting(church) and behave. It would hardly be just for me to omit say-ing that while my Calvinistic forefathers heldto doctrines and practised customs which in thelight of the present day I believe to be wrong,yet they were thoroughly sincere in their faith. I would rather you would differ from me, ifyou must in order to be honest, than to pretendto believe what you do not. Thus my grand-father would often say to me. They were moretrue to the light God gave th
. Jasper Douthit's story; the autobiography of a pioneer. ryou do, you must always speak the truth, behonest with everybody, and go to meeting(church) and behave. It would hardly be just for me to omit say-ing that while my Calvinistic forefathers heldto doctrines and practised customs which in thelight of the present day I believe to be wrong,yet they were thoroughly sincere in their faith. I would rather you would differ from me, ifyou must in order to be honest, than to pretendto believe what you do not. Thus my grand-father would often say to me. They were moretrue to the light God gave them than some oftheir descendants who claim greater and betterlight. These Baptists called a member who wasstrong in the faith hard, which meant sternlyorthodox; and a member that was disposed to beliberal they called soft. My mother wasreckoned as soft. When I first told her withjoy that I had found a people who would takeme in and ordain me to preach the gospel, sheasked, What do they believe? When I toldher, as nearly as I could, she exclaimed: [ 94 ]. MR. DOUTHIT ABOUT 1870 JASPER DOUTHITS STORY Why, my child, that is what I always joined the Baptists because I wanted so muchto belong to meeting, and there was nothingelse to join. It was naturally decreed that a church suchas I have described should die. The factionsground together like the upper and nether mill-stones, having no grist, till they ground them-selves to pieces. Their divisions and subdivi-sions were endless on questions that nobody onearth knows anything about. The split thatwas the beginning of the end of the old churchin this locality, was on what they called thetwo-seed doctrine — the seed of good and side held that God made Himself and thatthe Devil made himself, and each of them hada separate kingdom. The other side contendedthat God created Himself and the Devil church split on that question, and thatabout ended it in that region. My mothers lastpastor and a dozen or more o
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