They held a baptizing in Daddy's Pond on Sunday Afternoon following a week of protracted meeting and several souls saved. Live Oak Church Property joins us on our northwest corner. There are members there who have ponds, but none so clear and pretty as Daddy's big pond. He lined it with bauxite from down near the swamp, so there's no red mud in the bottom to stir up and stain the ladies' white dresses and shoes.
They like for us to attend the baptizing, because singing out in the open tends to be thin and reedy. Daddy's voice is strong and deep and they like our singing. Daddy always likes to sing On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand -- he calls it Jerdan:
On Jerdan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye
To Canaan's Fair and and happy land, where my possessions lie.
O who will come and go with me I am bound for the Promised Land.
Speaking of Jordan, one of Daddy's favorite sayings is about company who came and stayed too long. He says, "They ate up Creation and Drank Jerdan dry."
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My husband, who is a Southern Baptist, was baptized in pond ... he said they were on one side and the cows on the other :)
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