`` We had a fearful time over the building of that church -- fell out over the question of a new site . The two sites was n't more 'n two hundred yards apart , but you 'd have thought they was a thousand by the bitterness of that fight . We was split up into three factions -- one wanted the east site and one the south , and one held to the old . It was fought out in bed and at board , and in church and at market . All the old scandals of three generations were dragged out of their graves and aired . Three matches was broken up by it . And the meetings we had to try to settle the question ! Cornelia , will you ever forget the one when old Luther Burns got up and made a speech ? HE stated his opinions forcibly . '' `` Call a spade a spade , Captain . You mean he got red-mad and raked them all , fore and aft . They deserved it too -- a pack of incapables . But what would you expect of a committee of men ? That building committee held twenty-seven meetings , and at the end of the twenty-seventh were n't no nearer having a church than when they begun -- not so near , for a fact , for in one fit of hurrying things along they 'd gone to work and tore the old church down , so there we were , without a church , and no place but the hall to worship in . '' `` The Methodists offered us their church , Cornelia . '' `` The Glen St. Mary church would n't have been built to this day , '' went on Miss Cornelia , ignoring Captain Jim , `` if we women had n't just started in and took charge . We said WE meant to have a church , if the men meant to quarrel till doomsday , and we were tired of being a laughing-stock for the Methodists . We held ONE meeting and elected a committee and canvassed for subscriptions . We got them , too . When any of the men tried to sass us we told them they 'd tried for two years to build a church and it was our turn now .
We shut them up close , believe ME , and in six months we had our XXXXX .
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