A History of Methodism in Alabama . e studied and learned the prac-tical things of life, and did not spend much time reveling in thedomain of speculation. While living at Bluff Springs, Alaba-ma, in 1856, he was elected Judge of Probate of TalladegaCounty, and immediately moved to Talladega, where he residedtill he passed to the grave. He held the office of Judge of Pro-bate of Talladega County from the time he was first electedthereto until the acts of reconstruction went into force afterthe close of the war between the States. In 1876 he was re-stored to, or reinstated in the office, and the
A History of Methodism in Alabama . e studied and learned the prac-tical things of life, and did not spend much time reveling in thedomain of speculation. While living at Bluff Springs, Alaba-ma, in 1856, he was elected Judge of Probate of TalladegaCounty, and immediately moved to Talladega, where he residedtill he passed to the grave. He held the office of Judge of Pro-bate of Talladega County from the time he was first electedthereto until the acts of reconstruction went into force afterthe close of the war between the States. In 1876 he was re-stored to, or reinstated in the office, and then he held it untilimpaired health caused him to resign in 1884. He professedreligion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1838,and shortly thereafter he erected his home altar, and kept upworship with his family with great punctuality until impairedhealth disqualified him for conducting religious services. Hewas a man of strong religious convictions, and did his dutyin the Church of his choice faithfully and well. He was in. HON. WILLIAM H. THORNTON. 45 <696) The Work under the New Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. G97 his place at the house of God, and was ever in the frontrank as a worker in the divine cause. He was a man of solidpiety, who both knew and loved Methodist doctrine and disci-pline, and had natural and acquired abilities to transact thetemporal business of the Church. He had positive convictionsand steady purposes. He mingled firmness with gentleness,persistence with kindness, and assertion with meekness in mostadmirable harmony. It is said that his most noticeable errorsin judgment were committed in excessive efforts for peace andfriendship. It is quite possible to sacrifice right on the altarof friendship, and in what is supposed to be the interest ofpeace. Judge Thorntons hospitality was boundless, makinghim, in dispensing it, literally the servant of the people. Hekept open house. Never did preacher have a wiser counselor,a firmer friend, and a more wil
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