"Brother Sodom" was the nickname given by scoffers to the preacher--Mr.Soden--whose manner of preaching had so aroused Bud's combativeness, and whose saddle-stirrups Bud had helped to amputate.

For reasons of his own, Bud thought best to subject young Johnson to the heat of Mr.Soden's furnace.
Peter Cartwright boasts that, on a certain occasion, he "shook his brimstone wallet" over the people.

Mr.Soden could never preach without his brimstone wallet.

There are those of refinement so attenuated that they will not admit that fear can have any place in religion.

But a religion without fear could never have evangelized or civilized the West, which at one time bade fair to become a perdition as bad as any that Brother Sodom ever depicted.