The Junco comes!
JAMES BRADLEY JACKSON
(Written beside his grave in Lake City, Fla., where he was buried after a tragic death, February 8, 1868, by railroad accident.
Dr. Lovick Pierce, when in his prime, once facetiously remarked to several opposing preachers: “My brethren, you had better let brother Jackson alone. He has the most metaphysical mind of any man in Georgia, myself only excepted.”
Rev. W. J. Scott, D. D., in “Biographic Etchings” says of contemporary ministers: “Not one of them was his equal as a theologian or logician.”
The late Dr. W. J. Cotter, of Newnan, Ga., wrote: “Your father was a great and good man.”)
Father, O my father!
Attend unto the cry
Of this, thy son,