Mount Olivet church at the time of which I am about to write had received the zenith of her glory.

She was possessed of a full measure of the denominational pride and prejudice common to the day and the community in which she existed.

Since Mount Olivet church is to occupy so conspicuous a place in my narrative, it is fitting that I should take time and space right here to describe her.

I must also give my readers an idea of the community of which Mount Olivet church formed the hub and center.
Well, to begin with, Mount Olivet church was old.

And like, all other things old she had a history, partly respectable and partly otherwise.
The date of her organization reached back into the fifties, before the days of the Civil War.