``I looked over that building,'' he goes on,
whimsically, ``and I saw that repair really seemed
out of the question. Nothing but a new church
would do! So I took the ax that I had brought
with me and began chopping the place down.
In a little while a man, not one of the church
members, came along, and he watched me for a
time and said, `What are you going to do there?'
``And I instantly replied, `Tear down this old
building and build a new church here!'
``He looked at me. `But the people won't
do that,' he said.
`` `Yes, they will,' I said, cheerfully, keeping at
my work. Whereupon he watched me a few minutes
longer and said:
`` `Well, you can put me down for one hundred
dollars for the new building. Come up to my
livery-stable and get it this evening.'
`` `All right; I'll surely be there,' I replied.
``In a little while another man came along and
stopped and looked, and he rather gibed at the
idea of a new church, and when I told him of the
livery-stable man contributing one hundred dollars,
he said, `But you haven't got the money yet!'
`` `No,' I said; `but I am going to get it to-night.
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