Uncle Dan, had a personality of many facets. Although Dan sometimes
had a harsh temperament, he had a charming side when visitors sat with him in
his living room or on his front porch. Although he could behave in a peculiar
fashion he could react normally when friends and family took the time to talk with
him.
I asked Mother why he quit going to church. She explained to me
that he had some embarrassments.
When he was a young man, he had a tender soul. He taught the adult
Sunday school class at Fellowship Baptist Church. One Sunday he was standing
before the class, which was so large that it met in the sanctuary. People
enjoyed Dan’s teaching.
The problem was that his wife Etta, who was eccentric also, had
stored her hair net pressed between two tissue-thin leaves of his Bible. Just
as he was reaching the climax of his lesson, he turned to a favorite scripture
passage and his fingers became tangled in the hair net.
Lifting it high and showing it to the group, he asked, “Does
anybody know what thoos is?” The class had a good laugh, but he lost interest
in teaching Sunday school and in attending church. As the years passed his
heart hardened.
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