Dr. U. G. Mason, Physician and Surgeon, Birmingham, Ala.
Dosier, Rev. John, the founder and for twenty years pastor of the church in Uniontown, was a man of great moral worth. I once heard a politician who was associated with him in the legislature of Alabama, remark:
“John Dosier was an honorable man everywhere, and I never saw a man who did not believe every word he said.”
He, like Mr. A. H. Curtis, passed through his political preferments with stainless reputation.
He was a very old man at the time of his death, which occurred only a few years ago. He was born somewhere near the beginning of the present century. By some means he, during the days of his bondage, learned to read Greek, which knowledge he turned to good results upon his study and interpretation of the Scriptures. He was one of Alabama’s most worthy pioneers. He was a temperance man. Upon one occasion in a session of the Uniontown Association, some one complained that he smelled a very disagreeable whiskey odor in the house.
Mr. Dosier remarked: “With the consent of the body I will find the man who has been drinking.” It was agreed that he might make the search. Accordingly, he passed from man to man, requesting that he might smell his breath. He located the man, who, for lying about it, was excluded from the body.
The writer never met a man for whose veracity he had a higher regard.
Donald, Rev. R., of Birmingham, was born in Alabama June 10, 1854. He is the founder of the Tabernacle Church, Birmingham, and the builder of the First Church, Pratt Mines. He has worked hard and sacrificed much for the cause. His name will remain in many churches. He owes much to his noble, patient wife.
Edwards, Rev. A. J., of Lowndes county, is a teacher as well as a preacher, and in different sections of the State he has labored with good results in the interest of morality, education and religion. Mr. Edwards is blessed with much body as well as with much soul. Good health and jovial spirits abound, and hence he is ever an enjoyable companion. He is still a young man, full of manly pride, commendable ambition, and a love for the pure and charitable, in view of which we may hope that his day is only in its dawning, and that a brighter noon and evening are before him.