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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. "WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?" EVERAL hundred neighbors of the village will not be introduced at this time. Some are entire strangers. Some the reader would not care to know. Many have nothing to do with the events of this history. Some will be incidentally met hereafter. General, however, the citizens were sober, industrious, honest and intelligent. It was a very moral town. Whether or not there was any altar or temple with the inscription, " To the unknown God," whom some ignorantly worshiped, it could be said by anyone well acquainted with the ways of the dwellers there, " I perceive that in all things ye are very religious." The great majority were attendants of some church. Three ministers, if it is proper to put them in this list, four physicians, one lawyer, one school teacher with several assistants, and one journalist, or editor, as he called himself, printer, perhaps, was the right title, made up the professional men ofthe place. The most prominent minister in the village had been there about a year. His name in full, and it was often printed in full, was the Rev. Theophilus Dobbs, D.D. Where he received his title no one ever discovered. That was at least one thing in which he was wiser than the others. He was not that chaplain in the army concerning whom, his general, out of respect for him, and to correct his own recent mistake made in addressing him, issued an order one morning requiring all the soldiers to recognize him by the title Doctor of Divinity, adding that he had as good a right to confer degrees as any college. There were many ministers in the army as chaplains and soldiers, who were deserving of any title their generals could bestow on them. But the Rev. Dr. Dobbs was not in the army. He need not have been much afraid to go. No one would have ...