[or-roots] Joab Powell from ( Into the Eys of the Setting Sun)

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One night just as preaching had begun we heard a big commotion in the  
Clark's camp. "Glory to god." we heard, Then "Jesus is with us tonight,  
halleluiah." (Only they called it Hulli-u-jay).Little heads all along our row  were 
picked up. We forgot that we were ladies and opened our mouths and stared.  The 
"shouting" old ladies jumped up from the congregation and started toward the  
Clark's camp. "Mothers in Israel" they were called. some of them, I remember  
were very fat and each one seemed trying to reach the Clark's camp first. They  
were all excited and were hollering "Glory to god" and pounding each other.  
Someone had "gotten religion." a poor unfortunate, who had been shunned by  
everyone that was there and despised, had found her way to God, apparently  
without guidance. Good people can be so cruel sometimes. My Mother was deeply  
religious, but her religion was of a different kind. She was very dignified and  
quiet and she was always easy for anyone in trouble to go to.
Joab Powell was at that Camp Meeting. He thought himself quite  a singer, 
maybe he was. I thought so anyway. He had a big, big voice that fairly  made the 
woods echo. One of his favorite songs was "I yield, I yield, I can hold  out 
no more to the pleadings of Mercy etc." He sang through his nose and I  thought 
he said: "ienal, ienal," etc. and I could not find out what it meant. He  
sang another that went something like this: "Escape for life, with horror then  
my vitals froze." I thought he said: "Scrape for life, with horror then my  
victuap forze." I sang it with him as loudly as I could till Mother heard me and  
made me stop.I 
Walt  Davies
Cooper Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460 

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