WATERCOLOUR #7

ASBURY AND COMPANION SLEEP ON MOUNTAIN ROCKS

The experience in the cave makes Asbury sound like a tourist; the truth is that he was a pilgrim. 
His pilgrim way was most often uncomfortable. 
In West Virginia , many log cabin houses had only one room, which preachers shared with the family. 
One was 20 feet by 16 feet containing 7 beds, 16 people, some noisy children - and Asbury! "Sometimes," he wrote, "necessity compels us to seek retirement in the woods." 
In Virginia "I have to lodge half my nights in lofts, the cold wind blowing through a hundred places . . . I bear it with faithfulness, expecting ere long better entertainment - heavenly and eternal rest."

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