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Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

CHAPTER XXIX
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H.was immediately accepted as a missionary of the General Missionary Society.

He used quietly to indicate to me that, as touching this interview, his wife was a better general than himself, and that it was lucky for him that he was not at home.
And so we two became missionaries, sustained by two different, and, in one particular, antagonistic missionary societies.

Of course we did not quarrel; why should we?
If I was sometimes charged with abolitionism, was not this man blacker than myself?
We often traveled together, and held protracted meetings under the same tent.

I had for a lifetime studied this plea which we make for a return to primitive and apostolic Christianity, and it was, therefore, my business to press upon the people the duty to yield a loyal obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as our only Lawgiver and King, and thus to renounce all human leadership and the authority of all human opinions; and it became the business of Bro.

Hutchinson to win the people by his magnetic power, and fill them with his own enthusiasm, and thus induce them to act on the convictions that had been already formed in their hearts.
I take on myself to say there never have been two more diligent evangelists than were Bro.


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