The Autobiography Of Brantley York

What Our Civilization Would Be Today But For The Old Time Preacher, It Is Hard To Say. His Tremendous Faith And Religious Zeal May Have Filled His Imagination With Many Realities That Have No Significance For The Cold, Practical, Calculating Eye Of Today; And Judged By The Standards Of Today He Loses. But In Pioneer Days Of Nearly A Century Ago, When Settlements Were Isolated And Remote From Culture And Commercial Activities; When The Inbreeding Of Fatuous Ideas Was Turning Civilization Back Toward Primitive Man; When Post Offices, Newspapers, Literature, Sunday-schools And Secular Schools Were Unknown To Vast Wild Areas; When Christianity Was Graded Little Higher Than The Animism Of The Red-man, The Old Time Preacher Was The One, And About The Only, Apostle Of Enlightenment That The Back Districts Heard, And His Everlasting Influence Is Felt.