The Character of Pleasant Hill Church, Randolph, Alabama

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March 2004


PREACHERS VS. PROFANITY
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   Object lesson in answer to The Leader’s editorial on profanity.
   Pleasant Hill church, two miles west of Wadley, stands on the same ground of the 
Flat Rock Campground, where they held camp-meetings in the [18]40’s and [18]50’s.
   In 1880 this community had an old man who used profane language, but none since.
   There has never been a blind tiger or other breeder of immorality in this community.
   There has never been a homicide.
   These people have never raised an immoral daughter, [n]or had a son in the county 
bastile. The people are all moral and happy and many sons and daughters have gone out 
to bless the world with their pure lives and characters.
   Pleasant Hill church has sent out five ministers, all good ones, one (Rev. Geo. W. HALL) 
has gone to Glory and the other four are in the North Alabama conference, and one of these 
is now serving the circuit of his birth and is very popular here.
   “Whatsoever a man (or community) soweth, that shall he also reap.”

   Reader

[From The Roanoke Leader (Randolph County, Alabama), 5 May 1915, p.8]

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A “Blind Tiger” was an illegal liquor producer; i.e. a still operator.