Contents --Necessary Fried Chicken
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Preface 8
Prologue 12
One 16
Charleston, 1798-1820 16
Two 19
Fighting Peters 19
Earthquake of 1816 22
Dunkards 23
Three 25
Journey to Alabama 25
Four 31
The Power of Methodist Singing 32
Hog's Fat and Molasses 33
Five 37
Up the Alabama River 37
A Surprise Visit 38
Good Preachers 40
Six 43
Schism 43
Hard Shell Baptists 46
Seven 48
Revival Drama 49
Interactions with the Indians 50
Double Wedding 51
Eight 53
"Oh! For a Mims!" 53
Building Churches 54
Free Masons 55
Keeping the Sabbath 56
Nine 58
A Study in Contrasts 58
Ten 61
Camp-Meetings 61
Preach Frolic; 63
Out-praying the Priest 63
Eleven 65
Necessary Fried Chicken 65
Twelve 69
Greensboro 1834 Annual Conference 69
Pudding Sermons 71
Thirteen 72
First Great Revival in Greensboro 72
Battling the Devil from Presbyterian Heights
73
Fourteen 76
The Road from Selma to Greensboro 77
French Vineyards in Alabama 78
Mission Work Among the Africans 79
Fifteen 82
Ministry in the Black Belt Before and After The War 83
A Chapel for the Slaves 85
Sixteen 88
Mysterious Process of Assigning Preachers
88
Greensboro's Heavy Burden 90
Union Church 91
Seventeen 93
Greensboro Pastors 93
Eighteen 96
Graves' Campground 96
Riverside Conversion 98
Nineteen 99
Greensboro Circuit Riders 99
Roll Call of Ministers 99
Methodist Centenary 101
Twenty 103
A Visit to Livingston 103
Twenty-One 106
Vernon-Never to Be Forgotten 106
Twenty-Two 110
Woodville/Uniontown 110
Demopolis 111
Prairieville 111
Twenty-Three113
Camp-Meeting 114
Twenty-Four 118
Quarterly meetings in the Past 118
Twenty-Five 120
Singing in Family Worship 120
Twenty-Six 123
Duties to the Young 123
Twenty-Seven 128
The Sick Chamber 128
Twenty-Eight 132
Meteoric Shower of 1833 132
Twenty-Nine 136
Power Lies in Spirituality 136
Thirty 143
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Rattler Morgan and the Sabbath 143
Rattler Morgan Again 145
APPENDIX I 147
INDEX 150
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