A Forty-Three Year Pastorate in a Country Church

Cornelius Washington Grafton (1846-1934) was an American Presbyterian pastor in the country village of Union Church, Mississippi, from 1873-1934. At the forty-three year mark, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The address he gave as Moderator is published in this booklet. In it, Grafton speaks in detail of his life and work as a country pastor.