A MAN WITH A RECORD.
Ben F. Wilson of New Haven is now (February 4, 1880) 82 years of age. He has been a magistrate 12 years in Nelson county. He fines every man one dollar fur each time he uses a profane oath, and has receipts for payment of same. He never used a profane oath. He never taated a drop of liquor. He never smoked a cigar or tobacco or chewed in his life. He never saw a horserace for money.
He never was in a theatre.
He has been a member of the Methodist Church for 60 years— clasa leade? and steward for 59 years. He has been going to Sunday-school for 64 years. He has travelled through elaven States of the Union.
He is ready to say with Paul : "I have fought a good fight ; I hava kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of life which the Lord, the Kighteous Judge, shall give me."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1488, 22 May 1880, Page 27
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164A MAN WITH A RECORD. Otago Witness, Issue 1488, 22 May 1880, Page 27
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