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[Illustration: THE HAWK’S NEST, OR MARSHALL’S PILLAR.
FAYETTE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. PAGE 167.]
Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, New York.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by the American Tract Society, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of the State of New York.
The milestone--The elegant young man--The collier--The rich lady 15
The grog-shop--The rolling mills--The Universalist 27
The new “relagin”--The hard father and his little daughter--The deserted homes--The stolen books 37
Book preachers installed--“Caught with guile”--The clenched fist--Review 49
Governor of West Virginia--Surprising desolations--The lodging--The dinner--“Blazing the trees” 57
The hunter seeking books for a Sunday-school--The first sermon--Clock pedlars 68
The “Ironside” preacher and distiller--Wife and granddaughter 75
A church dignitary--“Have you let Washington into heaven?” 81
The pistol--The surveyor’s son--A public-house--“You have prayed plenty”--The pocket-Bible 89
The summit of Cheat mountain--The “fellow that wanted to colport”--The sheriffs warrant--Wishing to be a _tract_ agent 97
The wickedest man in the county--The bully--The shooting match--A gang of desperadoes 111
“No church, no preacher, no Sunday-school, no day-school”--A young lady’s success 128
“No such place as hell”--The busy lawyer--A Trinity--The great work in L----, and in U---- 137
A Pentecostal season--Service in a graveyard--A Seceder church 151
The Spirit’s blessing at C----, and near Marshall’s Pillar, and at L---- B---- --Col. S----‘s household 163
Grieving the Spirit--Striking effects of the Anxious Inquirer 176
