"Biographical," The Gospel Messenger vol. 9 no. 6 (Jun. 1887)
I was born in Henry county Ga., January 28, 1828. Eventually my father moved to the Creek Indian Nation, in Chambers county, Ala., in about 1832, and three years thereafter to Tallapoosa county, then the heart of the Indian Nation. In this wild region, on the bright waters of Tallapoosa River and its tributaries, and in the mountain gorges, listening to the rippling waters as they leaped from one precipice to another, sparkling and dancing in the sunlight, there I received the first inspiration of my life. It was in this wild and “wilderness” region that I first heard of Christ and his cross, as it fell from the lips of my mother. Blessed and heroic mother! who, while the Indian war-whoop made the forest ring in defiance of the march of civilization, could gather her three youthful children around her and tell them of salvation by grace through Jesus Christ. |
