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! HISTORY OF UNCLE JIMMY DANNELLY ANTI-BELLUM PREACHER OF WIDE REPUTATION. ' Brusque and to the Point. Did Not Stand for Vulgar Display and Was Down on Hypocrites?Also Was Bitter Against Immorality. gty v . . " In old-ante-bellum days, and especially in the rural sections, preachers were of an entirely different order from the ministers of the gospel in these advanced and modern times. They were clerical shoulder-hitters, who did not mince or choose their words and believed in and preached hell fire and brimstone. After one of these fiery sermons the hairs on the heads of the terrorized congregations stood out like quills upon a fretful porcupine. You could almost smell the brimstone and broiling flesh as they depicted the horrors of torment, that was the sure heritage of unpenitent sinners. One of the most noted preachers of the south was an old wooden-legged Methodist named "Uncle Jimmy Dan, nelly," who lived about one and a half miles from Lowdesville, Abbeville district, South' Carolina, near the old Smyrna church. He officiated in the early fifties. He was a stoutbuilt man and I should say weighed around 180 pounds. His home'was, within sight of Smyrna church, and j close to the old camp-ground of that name. This church has been moved I to Lowndesville and the railway from Anderson passes within a few feet of the large graveyard belonging to the chnrch nrt.-i in which manv of the re markable men of that section are buried. "Uncle Jimmy" Dannelly hated three things above all else: Foppery and gaudy apparel: inattention to services during his long-winded sermons, and immorality. Some of his denunciations from the pulpit against the latter sin were so str ng and exjjfl pressive as not to be printed at all. "Uncle Jimmy's" fame as a preach. Ier spread over the state and he was j once invited to preach a sermon in a - fashionable church of Charleston. S. j C. He had a piercing, high-pitched j voice. After mounting the pulpit and i taking his text, the old gentleman, | ' / ; glancing over the building and then throwing his eyes into* tne gallery, J set apart for slaves in many city churches before the war, began his discourse with: "I was told when invited to* preach in this great city: and to this gaudily-arrayed congrega-1 tion that they were very refined peo-! pie and I must be careful what I said, j . lest I offend their sensitive ears.! ?From the number of mulattoes I see sitting in the gallery, I should judge that the people of Charleston are in- j deed refined. Yes, the same kind of < refinement that brought about the de- j struction of Sodom and Gomorrah." \ He then delivered a powerful sermon ; on the subject, and told his hearers if \thev did not repent their city deserv ?... ? i 1- * ii,? I ea tne same iaie as uruugai uu mc destruction of the Dead Sea towns. K&r *? '< ' And he could not bear anything: like a display of pride or hvpocricy. i There was a member of his church, a i wealthy man, whom I shall call Ben-j jamin Blank. This man built a real j nice new home, the best in the neigh. | borhood. of which he was very proud. | Once at Smyrna "Uncle Jimmy" i preached a strong sermon about peo-! , I pie in their old age, instead or aevot- j Ing their wealth and time to the cause ! fs^'v' ; of God. were spending their sub- j stance in riotious living and the erec- j tion of fine nalaces to live in. After services the house-builder ap jjrV' 17 -' proaehed Uncle Jimmy, who was surrounded by a number of his flock. . and remarked: "Brother Dannelly, I do not think you did me the right thing today in preaching that sermon about my new home. It was my money, I put in it and every dollar was honestly earned." T D1 d n L- fVlQ (lid L/OUKlIlg <X t iJi UIIICI ijiu.ii iv wu ^ man camly replied: "Benjamin, you x are mistaken about my having the shanty you built in my mind when I selected my subject for today. I referred to a house the Alstons erected Jnear Charleston. Why they would not use the hut you built and are so proud of for a garden house. If you had not been so mean and closefisted and stingy, you would have built a decent house for your family long ago. Benjamin, I was not shooting at you. but my little shot from the pulpit today did not come within two hundred miles of you." When "Uncle Jimmy" first came to j Lowndesville to preach, a leading! member of his congregation, who had j * a fine farm and prided himself on ' building higher fences, naving ifatter j horses and better clad slaves than j any of his neighbors, approached the; old man and remarked, "Brother Dannelly, I want to say that I am a very poor man and have but little, ' - * '"- ??' 'g *' .-t-t. " J.'' j but you are welcome to share it. I want you to take dinner with me today." He expected "Uncle Jimmy" to contradict his expression of poverty and thus feed his vanity. The old man saw at a glance his object and replied: "I thank you brother Jones, but there are plenty of well-to-do members in the church who are better able to entertain me, and I make it a rule never to impose on the poorer members of my little flock. I will not take from your family a part of their pittance. I will call and see you when passing, but do not deprive *-/-m V fomilv trv on tort Q i n m P " And ?UU1 lauiiij i,u wuvv* he never could be induced to take a meal there, although Brother Jone9 did everything possible to make "Uncle Jimmy" realize his true condition. My father says that "Uncle Jimmy" was noted for his long-winded sermons and when another preacher was invited to fill his pulpit always closed with an exhortation as long as the sermon. One day at Smyrna, after a lengthy discourse by a visiting preacher, "Uncle Jimmy" arose, and opening his Bible in a new place, began to exhort sinners. My father says that himself and several other members of the congregation got up and started down the aisle to leave. "Uncle Jimmy" waited until they neared the door, when he closed the Bible and thundered out, pointing to the truants, "All of you who were drunk yesterday can go out and get water while we sing." Once a gay party of young ladies and gentlemen from town come to Smyrna to a big meeting, gaudily dressed, and during the services began" to whisper and giggle. "Uncle Jimmy" pointed them out and administered a severe rebuke, telling them that if they could not behave in I ph?r<>h tn remain at home and keep | away from Smyrna, as their room I was worth more than their presence. After services, one of t^he male escorts of the party approached "Uncle Jimmy" outside the church door and said: "Mr. Dannelly, I will let you know, sir, that those were respectable young ladies you sing'ed out in church today for rebuke and I will say to you that if you do not apologize, your clerical robes and wooden leg will not protect you." "I am glad you corrected the impression that these young women made on my mjnd. I took them, from ? ? ? ? "U ^ o TTArl in nVinr^h 1116 mil LL Lie I lUC* ucuavcu 1U to be some strumpets you young men had picked up on the streets and desecrated the house of God with their presence. And now, young man, in regard to your punishing me, I will say that in my younger days I used to be something of a scrapper. I drank and committed all manner of sins. In fact, I lost my leg while running a horse race on Sunday while drunk. Now, if some of the brethren will hold my coat, in about sixty seconds I will give that young puppy such a trashing as he has not Jiad since his father took him into the woodshed." These young folks did not attend any more revivals at Snfyrna. But "Uncle Jimmy" once got the worst from a visitor to camp-meeting. A gaily dressed young man from the courthouse attended services and took a seat in front of the pulpit. He began twirling his gold-headed cane while "Uncle Jimmy" was in the midst of a sermon. Stopping short in his discourse the old preacher remarked, pointing to the young man: "My young friend, let me say to you there are no gold-headed canes in heaven." The instant retort was, "Yes, nor wooden-legs, either." During a camp meeting at old Smyrna "Uncle Jimmy" was half sick and broken down. Turning the pulpit over to a young minister from a town church, he told the congregation that he would retire to his home and rest that night, as there seemed to be j - --A -vvlrl iw/Uffaronf fanl *r? cr TVt P <X V Kii y UU1U iuuiuci tut, iV/Vi-ug. iuv new minister delivered what he thought was a powerful sermon and on calling for mourners, the altar rail u:as crowded. So elated was he that he sent a delegation to the home of Brother Dannelly, who lived near by, to bring him to the I3nt to help pray for the vast number of penitents. The old man reluctantly left his bed, and walking into the stand, looked upon the mourners, strung around the rail. After taking a good look at the penitents he turned to the young revivalist and remarked: "Bad haul, my young brother. Throw oa: your net j and try again. I have been convert ing that same old gang regularly at I every camp meeting for the past ten j years and they are not worth trvlngi to save. The last one of them will J forget before the end of the week all about your prayers, and be drinking, j gambling and frolicking." With this! verdict "Uncle Jimmy" turned his back and returned home, leaving the ! young minister to do his own con-; verting. In his latter vears "Uncle Jimmy" j I married a second time, to a a old maid j from Anderson county, who had been J exceedingly kind in nursing him j t * .---v NIGHT WATCHMAN KILLED. G. W. Smith Loses Life in Pursuit of Robbers. Greenville, Sept. 30.?G. W. Smith, 56, night watchman, was instantly killed in the suburbs of the city at 5 o'clock this afternoon by a negro, Will Hood, former prisoner in the city stockade. Hood was being pursued by officers when Smith got in his path and was instantly killed by the negro who fired three shots into the aged man's heart. Hood himself was seriuosly if not fatally injured by the officers joining in the chase, more than 4 0 shots being fired. Eugene Bearch, negro, who was with Hood, was also orroctad and hnth are heiner held in the county jail tonight. Talk of mob violence may cause both to be transferred to Spartanburg for safe keeping, officials stated. ' Hood and Bearch are alleged to have entered a store at a local mill village this afternoon and both were being pursued by a number of officers and citizens. Mr. Smith, hearing of.the chase, stepped into his back yard at 32 Alonde street, when the negro pullei a gun and fired four times, three bullets piercing Smith's heart and the fourth entering his arm. As Mr. Smith fell mortally wounded, the officers began firing on/3 Unnd nrae corirmolv wniinded be O.HU 11UVU TT UO IAW vw*., fore being captured. If you want to buy or sell anything use The Herald Want column. while he was sick during some of his preaching tours through that country. But he caught a tartar in bis second wife. Once when the old man walked up the steps of old Smyrna church to fill his appointment, he found his pulpit occupied by his wife, who was telling the congregation what a vile old hypocrite their minister was. "Uncle Jimmy" stood for about a minute in the doorway, listening to the abuse by his better half, when he hobbled back home and left the pulpit to her. The old minister is buried in the Smyrna graveyard, but the inclosure around the grave, and even the | mound, have long since disappeared. | Mp was a remarkable man of his day! and generation, and ranked as a preacher alongside of Lorenzo Dow.? Larry Gantt in the Yorkville Enquirer < The above will be read with interest by a number of Bamberg county people, as the Rev. Dannelly referred to was a close relative of the Dennellys of the Ehrhardt section. S. G. MAYFIELD ATTORNEY AT LAW Practice in all courts, State and Federal. Office Opposite Southern Depot. BAMBERG. S. C. 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By order of the State Board of Education, the regular teachers' examination will be held at Bamberg on Friday, October the 7th, and Saturday, October the 8th, 1921, beI ginning promptly at 9 o'clock each morning. This examination embraces three groups of questions?the first for Primary Certificates, the second for General Elementary Certificates and the third for High School Certificates. The Primary examination embraces the following twelve subjects? English, Grammar, and Language, Arithmetic, Playground and Community Activities. S. C.. U. S. and General History, Geography, CiviC3 and Current Events, Literature, Pedagogy, Health, Nature Study, School Law, Manual Training. The General Elementary examination embraces the following twelve subjects?English Grammar and Composition, Arithmetic, History, U. S. and S. C., Geography, Civics and Current Events, Spelling, Reading, Pedagogy, Physiology and Hygiene, Nature Study and Agriculture, School Law, Algebra. 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