Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . to supply the larderfrom the chase, and to eating bread made ofmeal manufactured by the hominy mortar, hewas of a race of men whose perceptive facultieswere keenly developed by the new and strangesurroundings of their exposed lives, and whoseresources, mental and physical, were, by the veryexigencies pressing upon them, always equal tothe demand. To him God, eternity, death, theresurrection, the judgment, Heaven and hell,were vivid and solemn realities. In many of hisdiscourses he spoke as if these were actuallypresent, being seen and felt by him. At the M
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . to supply the larderfrom the chase, and to eating bread made ofmeal manufactured by the hominy mortar, hewas of a race of men whose perceptive facultieswere keenly developed by the new and strangesurroundings of their exposed lives, and whoseresources, mental and physical, were, by the veryexigencies pressing upon them, always equal tothe demand. To him God, eternity, death, theresurrection, the judgment, Heaven and hell,were vivid and solemn realities. In many of hisdiscourses he spoke as if these were actuallypresent, being seen and felt by him. At the Methodist campmeetings Levin Green,attired in his buckskin breeches and coon-skincap, entranced the pioneers with his peculiarstyle of oratory and, in civil affairs, he was ac-corded honors becoming his station. The lovefor the romantic pioneer life, however, was everpresent and, with the coming of the settlers andhomemakers, he left to seek his home anew onthe borderline of the western frontier, and Schuy-ler County knew him no METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, RLSHYILLE, ILL. HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY. 709 In every community there are men who arelooked upon as leaders; men who take the initia-tive and plan and build for the future. Such aman was Rev. John Scripps in the religious lifeof Rushville, and a history of the times wouldnot be complete without some reference to hislife and its activities. It was in the summer of 1831 that Mr. Scrippsmoved to Rushville, coming here from Cape Gi-rardeau, Mo., where he had resided since 1809,and although his object in locating In the citywas to engage in merchandising, he enteredheartily into the work of up-building the Metho-dist Church, which had been established a fewyears before. No one in the village was morecapable of assuming the leadership of the littlecongregation than he, for he was then a memberof the Methodist Conference of Missouri and haddune valiant work on the circuit in earlier years. As early as 1S12, while a resident
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