. The life and writings of Rufus C. Burleson, containing a biography of Dr. Burleson by Harry Haynes; funeral occasion, with sermons, etc; selected "chapel talks;" Dr. Burleson as a preacher, with selected sermons. 54 The Life A^D AVritixgs of the river bank and feasted his soul upon the familiar scenes,while the blue waters sang a rippling sonnet as they passed,and went laughing and dancing onward to the sea. He ascended the rugged hills, scaled the mountain*sheight, and looked out upon the same sublime prospect thathad thrilled his boyish mind in former years. He gathered chestnuts from the
. The life and writings of Rufus C. Burleson, containing a biography of Dr. Burleson by Harry Haynes; funeral occasion, with sermons, etc; selected "chapel talks;" Dr. Burleson as a preacher, with selected sermons. 54 The Life A^D AVritixgs of the river bank and feasted his soul upon the familiar scenes,while the blue waters sang a rippling sonnet as they passed,and went laughing and dancing onward to the sea. He ascended the rugged hills, scaled the mountain*sheight, and looked out upon the same sublime prospect thathad thrilled his boyish mind in former years. He gathered chestnuts from the same old tree, pluckedwild flowers from the same lovely glen, and slaked his thirstfrom the same old spring where he liad drank in the rosy mornof early youth. He visited the grave of his angel mother, and upon thislittle mound of earth, in the quiet twilight, with a tiny star. MT. PISGAH CHURCH: FIRST CHURCH DR. BURLESON WASA MEMBER OF. occasionally peeping through the cerulean curtains overhead,got on his knees, and in broken accents, between sobs, thankedhis Father in heaven for her pure life, her unstained character,noble example, and her tender, loving care and instruction, towhich he attributed everything that he was, or could hope tobe in life. When he left Flint River five years before, he was onlya licentiate, but now he was a full-fledged minister, so his oldfriends asked him to preach, and made an appointment at^]Mt. Pisgah, the church into whose fellowship he had been Dk. Kufus C. Burleso:^. 55 baptized. Pie accepted the invitation with sensations of joy,because it was near this place he preached his first sermon in1840, when a seventeen-year-old boy, from the text, Beholdthe Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world. At the appointed time the house was packed with people,from pulpit to door, some of whom had traveled ten miles tohear h
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