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human helpers had failed. Physicians could do nothing more. We
who stood by could do nothing but sympathize, and the wicked
man said "Trust in Jesus," though he had never trusted in Him
himself. "Let him that heareth say come."
While at breakfast at Woodruff's one morning, a messenger came
in haste, saying that a woman, not far from the old Capitol, wanted
to see me, supposing that she was dying. When I got to. her bed-
side, she thought that she was better, and her alarm was gone.
She seemed to take but little interest either in my conversation or
prayers. I left her and before the day closed she was dead.
Another sad case: After a hard ride on horseback, through rain
and mud from Velasco, tired and travel soiled and hungry, I
alighted at the hotel in Brazoria. I was recognized by some one
passing by. Presently, a messenger came, saying a woman near by
was dying, and wished to see me as soon as possible. I went imme-
diately, and found her in intense agony from internal cancer, which
had already siezed upon the vitals. She was a wife and a
mother. Her first words were: "Oh, I am dying, and I am not
prepared, and my agony is such that I cannot think. My parents
were professed Christians, but they never warned me to prepare
for death, and now, I can't prepare." I prayed with her then, and
next morning left for Columbia. Came back after a week. She
was dead, having no ground for hope for the future.
Rockville, Ind., Feb. 14th, 1879.23
Rev. Mr. Hutchison [Rev. Francis Rutherford].24-The first
member received into the Brazos Presbytery, after its organization,
in May, 1840, was the Rev. Mr. Hutchison. It was our fall meet-
ing, in Nov. 1840. Brothers Wilson and McCullough, Elder Mc-
Farland and myself, the four original members, had met according
to adjournment, in the neighborhood of Independence, where
Brothers .Wilson and McFarland lived. Soon after my arrival at
Brother Wilson's, word came from Hoxie's, in the neighborhood,
that Brother Hutchison was there, and had just been attacked with
lockjaw.
I had met him at Quintana, the previous summer, had heard him
"aTexas Presbyterian, IV, No. 2. February 28, 1879.
2The Minutes of the Presbytery of Brazos record the death of the Rev.
Francis Rutherford under the circumstances here given. No Mr. Hutchi-
son is mentioned. Mr. Allen evidently forgot the name.300
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