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abundant. Such meetings, too large for any house, with such
preachers as Wilson and Baker, were often held under the trees
and greatly blessed. But they did not suit manuscript sermons
very well, for while getting along with the thirdly the fourthly
might take wing in the wind.
With Presbytery organized, what was to be done with it?
Should it make application to the Synod of Mississippi? Two
of its members, Blair and Fullenwider, were of that Synod. Wil-
son and Blair were her missionaries, and depended for support of
their large families upon their promised salaries. But the Gen-
eral Assembly had just then rent asunder. The Synod was too
remote to attend it. It required weeks and a heavy purse to go
to its meetings. Texas was still a Republic and foreign to the
"old States." England and France had missionaries in Texas
offering most advantageous terms if she would remain alone. So
the Presbytery decided for the present to be independent. The
result was that Blair and Wilson were cut off from their salaries
from the day of such action. Wilson never complained, but it
was hard. Six months passed before he knew that his salary was
stopped. He had sold his road wagon for corn to feed his family,
put the corn "in a crib with his jersey wagon on its side for
shelter," and hired an Irishman to husk corn. The day was cold
and a fire was kindled and left burning during the dinner hour.
The crib, corn and wagon were burned. He must turn teacher
and farmer or his family will starve. But preach he did, far
and near. No Presbyterian minister deserves to be more grate-
fully remembered. Blair, too, toiled and suffered privations. In-
dians swept down the Guadalupe valley, Linnville was burned and
Victoria menaced. The place could not be defended and was de-
serted. Mrs. Blair laid upon a green cowhide with a three-day
old baby, was dragged three miles and escaped. The Presbytery
resolved itself into a missionary society. Each minister agreed
to p.ay annually $10 into the treasury for missionary funds. Poor
brethren! They never paid it, because they could not. Some-
times a letter lay in the postoffice for months because 45 cents
was not on hand to pay the postage. The little Presbytery named
itself Brazos from the river whose rich valley was in sight. It
claimed a broad field, all over Texas, then more than 300,000
square miles. No wonder that it leaned to independence! After
sitting five days doing an amount of business which fills 28 pages
of its minutes, it adjourned to meet November 5th of the same
year. Two ministers and one elder got there after riding a long
journey on horseback. No quorum. The ministers adjourned to
meet at Independence in December. Then and there the same
members met and proceeded to adjourn to Chriesman's Settlement170
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 19, July 1915 - April, 1916, periodical, 1916; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101067/m1/185/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.