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Show page 119 construction. Campbell meant to start the church and the Holiness flock out on sound, modern business principles. Radcliffe drove away, a cigar hard and fast between his teeth. Campbell whispered to Mary Saint Marie to start up her guitar. He stepped atop his turned down packing crate and began his message to a full congregation, "Let us harken unto the Lord's wisdom, and trust the Lord. Let us bring forth some coin of the realm here tonight to fulfill the Lord's labors. . . . " The church was completed within a week and a half, the last board sawed and in place, the last nail hammered, the last gallon of paint and stain applied; even the bell, a broken length of steel rail, was hung and waiting. Campbell gave full time to the project. Women came out regularly bringing him food and drink. Eighty men, women, and children trooped up the hill every afternoon after their regular day's labor with saws, buckets of nails, pieces of window glass, roofing paper, bundles of shingles, bolts of bright gauze for window curtains. A steeple was built; and benches with backs; and a special cushioned chair for Mary Saint Marie. Campbell himself fastened her chair permanently to the floor near the pulpit, that she might catch his signals, and listen, and play eagerly for the word of God. Campbell arranged by letter to Robert Wilhoyt, commercial editor Macon Telegraph, to take over Homer Radcliffe's lease, and invited Wilhoyt to their first Sunday service, to sign the |