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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
May 19, 1904.
This town is suffering from the ad-
gone.
Then our itnie nt editor went to verse ruling of the Criminal Court in
had been by reading Wm. Law, and Athens to preach the opening
new before.
GEORGIA LETTER.
but the new birth and stern maxims
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reversible
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not
a
round of quarterly meetings,
never done five months’* of
He was aroused as John Wesley and
Charles and the little Oxford band
be of hevy oak like the
The building itself is
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that antis got an injunction, and now the
with town is fuller of whisky dives than
sermon going back on their former decision.
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the pastor, who introduced a number ers in the kingdom of God.
the Texas Conferences on the Texas
Christian Advocate is very well and
the eminent success of that enterprise
in that great Empire of the Southwest
is a pleasant contemplation, but the
effort to make the Nashville Christian
Advocate serve all the Annual Confer-
ences in like manner does not seem . _ ,___
feasible. the Catholic mystics, and the story of in our beautiful new church, and, They had fought a hard battle for lo-
The Church we love needs all kinds the struggles of the young legalist though I was more than 100 miles cal option and won, but because they
of agencies to help on its influence for was pitiful enough. After a prolong- away, I did not fail to rejoice with the left out the already dry precincts the
good. Preachers and laymen alike ed penitence only equalled by that of happy pastor and his flock in
should have a chance to do for the Luther and Augustine, he came into growing town, for I had been
--------- ♦ --------- ance last year, it is just what many
LUFKIN NOTES of us desire. It will help us to be
men of stronger intellect, of larger in-
When we first went to Church here formation, of profounder faith, and
cordial greeting was extended by thereby make us more efficient work-
charges and some of those in the rap- them they are not forgotten. So as I,
idly growing towns do not need the cannot preach “viva voce” I take ad- ot Wm. Law and now, added to ail, the
helpful influences of the District Con- vantage of the courtesy of the editors doctrine of justification by faith were
ference services as much as the coun- to say a word through the various Ad- unpopular doctrines and so the
try circuits and missions. vocates. Now and then I find I have Church doors were closed upon him
----- worn out my welcome and my letters and he went to the fields. He raised
Some of your Texas readers will find the waste basket “sans ceremo- a great storm, but his daring drew
be able to appreciate the subject of nie” and “su silentio.” In this respect vast multitudes to hear him He se-
“Methodist Church Newspapers, or our Southern editors are rather un- cured hundreds of pounds for his ven-
Conference Organs” as related to the favorably contrasted with those of the ture. He came attended by his friends
Holston territory. While this confer- Northern press. I have had articles and. workers, and reached Savannah
ence is not strong in its patronage of returned from Zion’s Herzld, from the again, and founded his home! He had
religious newspapers published with- New York Observer, w'a kind note a hundred dependents in a short time,
in or beyond its borders, the publica- giving reasons for decliyEg them, but and a heavy debt, sohe went Gospel
tion of a conference or connectional I have had articles si Bly rejected ranging, reaching Philadelphia and
reeaived much attention withovt a word by some of our Ad- pressing his way to Boston. This was
The Holston Christian vocates which had invited them by the beginning of the evangelistic
ed about his soul, he drifted on until cent. We had not seen each other for against the laxity of carrying out the
a way was found for him to go to Ox- thirty years till this spring. He came law, clearly showing the duty of ev-
ford to attend lectures and set tables to see me. We came near sitting up ery good moral citizen from a Bibli-
and black boots to pay his way. This all night. We talked of our struggles, cal standpoint; and he does not fail
was the first chapter in his history. of our joys, of our children dead and to show the curse of the liquor traffic.
Morristown District meeting was held
April 30-May 1 at Newport, on the
historic French Broad. The writer did
not have the pleasure of attending,
though the distance was not very
great. Cold rain and March tempera-
ture does not favor the outgoing of
the non-effectives in Holston territory.
Spring like weather has not been abun-
dant and East Tennessee farmers have
been looking forlorn at bare pastures
and corn not coming up, even where
planted.
Holston’s presiding elders, who call
the District Conferences in April and
weeks I will complete the
Then we wept like children.
others, and the opinion stated above courteous; he finds some place to - --------------
might not look so plausible. City wedge in the supernumeraries to show him priest and he began his work,
seats with
HOLSTON NOTES AND GOSSIP.
This is the beginning of the District
Conference season in Holston. The
Th'busimess pat 62 heseugatheting; tha chir placeswinothesnoon terprises ordained him a deacon,.e[hadspne
isespaohimhncghtoutegimonoroann.and to go out in their chosen S of evan- born again." H was not much over
gious influences seems to indicate a 8elistic labor. ' twenty-one when the story of his won-
more auspicious season for the lay - ,
members to come together. The tour- the winter and early spring, have been the best known young preacher in
ing of the land by connectional officers numerous and very fruitful in results. England. Great Churches vied with
representatives of Church schools and City, town and country charges have each other in opening their pulpits to
snecial agente for henevolent socie. all shared in this good work of the the young deacon, and then came a
ties or schemes ought not to be en- Spirit. If the meetings toward the letter to him, from his friend John
couraged on these occasions. clo.se of the year result as favorably Wesley, inviting him to join him in
LOcal religious enthusiasm moved as these, the reports at conference, in the wilderness as a missionary. There
by the power of the Holy Ghost at- October, will be most cheering. Hol- were soldiers going to Gibraltar, and
tending the’ faithful ministry of the ston greetings to all Texas Methodists, immigrants to Georgia, and he was ap-
Gospel by the district pastors with J. R. PAYNE. Pointed the chaplain, and took ship-
the usual visiting ministers dispensing Washington College, Tenn.
. the Word of God, for the saving of lost ----------------
men from the curse of sin, will tend
more and more to make the District
Conference a popular manifestation of ---------------------g------- .
Methodist doctrine and usefulness, is that he loves to preach and that he come to the new colony to find them-
The months of May and June in East has no opportunity to do so. He can- selves encompassed on all sides by
Tennessee, as well as in the Virginia not go far from home, and at home he difficulties and privation. Poor little
portion of the territory, is the busiest has been heard so many times that orphans, dependent widows, sick peo-
season of the year to the farmers, the “locum tenens,” as much as he ple with none to care for them, touch-
Only men of wealth'and leisure can would like to show a courtesy to the ed his heart. Why not an orphanage,
easily leave the home and work on old man and get some relief from la- a refuge, an infirmary? It could be
the farm for a profitable stay at the bor himself, does not feel at liberty foundedi 11 should be, and perhaps
district meeting. to vacate the pulpit and ask him to the wildest scheme of benevolence was
No doubt the worthy men who are fill it. There are in our Vineville con- entered upon. He would go back to
in charge of district work make their gregation nearly always three preach- England; he would preach the new
plans for these assemblies on consid- ers besides the pastor and sometimes birth, and beg money tor an orphan-
erations that do not readily appear to four. The good pastor is never dis- ase, and be ordained a priest, and so
- - - he did, and Bishop Benson ordained
Lord. a happy experience and strangely them in all their moves for a
In the school-room, in the newspaper enough before the doctrine of justifi- church. There is another deserving of There is an efficient Sunday-school
office and in the Sunday-school there cation by faith was clear to him. He honorable mention in that worthy en- of about 250 members with an aver-
are many openings for consecrated was assured there was a new birth, terprise, Rev. L. A. Webb. age attendance of 160. Bro. W. A.
laymen to work in the vineyard of the and he knew he had entered into a hen the itinerant dropped down to Abney, one of the substantial citizens,
Lord. We ought to welcome them to new world, and when Bishop Benson Tyler, and here came tramping back is superintendent, with his son, Dixon
the four happy years I spent there. Abney, a promising young lawyer, as
Who that ever lived in Tyler and did assistant. Bro. S. G. Cooke is the effi-
is uty while there but loves its cient Secretary, with a corps of about
name - • thirteen teachers.
Revival meetings in Holston, during derful and unique preaching made him inencame Timpson in the itinerary. There is an active Senior League
..... ’ ’ There too I lived and labored. There of about sixty members, with an aver-
two.omy children lie buried, one a age attendance of about fifty. Bro.
e aby girl, the otner a bright, Lee Grey, a noble young man, is Pres-
sunny, genial young man, my preacher ident; his sister. Miss Fannie, First
hoy-And there is the home of one of vice-President; Miss Rosa Christoper,
my children. Just recently I was with Second Vice-President; Prof. Payne,
her While the shadows of death gath- Third Vice-President, and Miss Bon-
ered over herhome, and her sweet ner, Secretary. All these young peo-
baby rfn tiw mon old closed her ple deserve great credit for the way
eyes on the light of this world and P ..1 , , 1 1
went to live with God 111 which they attend and take part in
ping for the new world. He was hap- - the exercises. They undertook to
, py in his new life and preached with Pittsburg District. raise $250 toward the new Church
the fervor of Apollos. Then came T ., and have already raised all but about
life in a little village populated by was a gOod distriT Then $16 of the amount.
One of the trials of an old preacher poor and discontented people who had here lt a short while and did not In October, 1902, Bro. Whitehurst
„ . 8 . n “he know how it was. In two more invited Abe Mulkey to hold a
* ■ - second meeting here. At the close of this
I have meeting he got Bro. Abe to take up
harder subscriptions towards a new Church,
work. For two months I put myself, an enterprise that was greatly in need
soul and body, into the Waco meeting, of getting started. The result of this
I worked for it, traveled for it, wrote launching forth was a collection and
for it, prayed for it, and when it came subscription of about $10,000. The
and was a great success, was owned contract was let in April, 1903, fora
by the Spirit, and Bishops, and elders, brick building to cost $12,750. The
and station preachers, and circuit windows are all memorial, or gift, to
riders, and missionaries, and editors, cost about $2000. One large window
and laymen got happy, I did, too, and complete is the gift of the Abney fam-
was paid a hundredfold. But the ily, one the gift of the Townsend fam-
district. We are doing well; the ily, another the gift of the Bonner
preachers are in health, and hard at family. Time and space will not al-
work, and the outlook for revivals is 1ow the detail of others equally as pre-
good. One faithful old soldier, Bro. cious in the sisht of God, if smaller
W. W. McAnally, had to be relieved of in size. The .seats, which are ordered,
his work on account of the ill health are to be of circular design from quar-
of himself and wife. He now lives at ter sawed solid oak for the main audi-
Kilgore. Bro. Claud Harkey, a very torium. .The choir is to have fifty ele-
promising young man, supplies his ant chairs; the preacher’s rostrum is
place on Cason Mission. to be supplied with an elegant stand,
one pulpit divan and two chairs. The
Our Finances Sunday-school rostrum also will have
uu, .. .. - , , x- Are in very hopeful condition. The a stand and
Ea kind note a hundred dependents in a short time, assessment for the support of the rain- backs, all tr
yg them, but and a heavy debt, so he went Gospel istry was raised $2300 beyond any pre- main ro9: _
u a- - Bly rejected ranging, reaching Philadelphia and vious year, and to date $4394.60 has comprised of a main auditorium and •
journal has received much attention without a word by some’ of our Ad- pressing his way to Boston. This was been paid, and if crops are reasonably Sunday-school room divided by a roll-
pin the past. The Holston Christian vocates which had invited them by the beginning of the evangelistic good I think every cent assessed will ing screen easily rolled up, making
Advocate, the Holston Journal, the .sending me unsolicited their own jour- movement in America as it had been be paid. On miscellaneous collections one fine room. The rostrum is roomy,
Holston Methodist, and Midland Meth- nals. The Texas Advocate has never in England. It never intermitted with there have been raised $1314.02, and allowing large space for the choir be-
odist have all been enterprised and done so. Dr. Rankin had the candor him tor the forty years, except when on our general assessments we have hind the preacher. At the back end
made famous by the itinerants of the to say he thought one of my letters he sat panting in his chair from raised, as per Bro. Jester’s statement is a gallery with a seating capacity
Holston Conference. These all receiv- was not exactly suitable to the times, asthma or was sailing across the seas, in the Advocate, $1364.25. This is al- of about eighty. The whole building,
ed endorsement of the conference and and declined to publish it. So I bent His work gave birth to the Low most one-third of our entire assess- when thrown together, has a seating
served to tide over an emergency not him another. I wrote a letter to the Church party of England, the new ment. These sums make a total of capacity of about 700. There i a
otherwise provided for by the official Nashville Advocate, for which I have lights of New England, the Calvinistic $7072.28. large preacher’s study, a parlor and
organ of the Church. been writing for these thirty years, Methodists of Wales, the great Bap- Our Church Pronerty class-room, with lavatory and closet
Samuel Patton, C. W. Charlton, R. and for the first time it was declined, tist revival in Virginia and North Car- downstairs, one nice room for social
N. Price and J. A. Burrow have made It was published afterwards in the oline, to Princeton College, and pre- The above sums do not include or other meetings, one class-room and
themselves useful and done much for Richmond Advocate, but Dr. Winton pared the way for the great Metho- the large sums that have already and ladies’ toilet room upstairs.
the Church in these hills. Added to very kindly gave his reasons for re- dist revival, which came just after he are being raised for the building and I would not do justice if I omitted
these, the work of Wm. Hicks, W. C. fusing to publish it: I want to say ascended. He was not learned. A repair of church property. Our new to say that Sister Whitehurst is a
Graves and others who sent out inde- here that my frequent allusions to ra- young Georstown graduate is a better and handsome $20,000 church at State most efficient nastor’s wife The
pendent journals to help the faithful tionalism are not born of any opinion scholar. There are few preachers in Line, Texarkana, is.already under way. League owes a great deal of ita ,9
ministry of the circuit workers in Hol- that there are many rationalists among the best charges of Texas that cannot while Pittsburg will break dirt in a gressiveness to her and from what t
ston, will not be forgotten when the us, but of the earnest desire to frus- make a more logical and systematic few days for a like building. Our peo- saw ali departments receive aid from
history of Methodism shall be written trate if possible their coming. sermon than he could or did. He was ple at Harris Chapel on the Dainger- her’
up for this Holston country. Perhaps it is unfortunate for your not a faultless saint. Quick in his field charge have money in hand and ... ...
■----- readers that I have read the Northern temper, harsh in his judgments, im- will soon begin a good frame church . 1 h4snob een. done Without
The success of the Midland Meth- journals with care for some years, and petuous and imperious, he was so full 30X50 feet, and will have it ready by . isu8eaandar; "hite
odist, now under the editorial hand of have had my eyes opened to the fear- of love to his Lord, and zealous for the third quarterly meeting fourth I sIn a §8 n8.with lo fnan
Holston’s very efficient Secretary, Rev. ful prevalence of German and New the great cause, that his faults were Sunday in August. Bro. Morgan has .. se ’. .... 6 . hasi. en
J. A. Burrow, probably marks higher England rationalism in the orthodox mere gnarls on the mighty oak. His repainted, papered and covered the Pilrm’tne S outin. promise
than any other of the conference news- pulpits of the North, and when I have great, warm heart bubbled over in love parsonage at Daingerfield, and put oSn that d1 8,Commit
paper enterprises. Tennessee Confer- seen so many of our young men troop- to all men and they were instinctively $o00 worth of pews in the church at Ping that. he. xtensio
ence preachers share with us the work ing to Chicago, which is, after Bos- drawn to him. He never had a prede- Hughes Springs, and has paid for the haye Vote mPPX
of this conference organ and doubtless ton and New Haven, the hotbed of ra- cessor, nor a successor. He came when new organ at Daingerfield. Mt. Pleas- 1 their late meeting- .„ ,
give it larger patronage than the Hol- tionalism,' I can but feel alarmed, for God needed him, and he was equipped ant also sings to the strains of a new when complete this Church will be
ston field. The editor, like the old- nothing dooms Methodism to a speed- of heaven for his work. The doc- organ. Gi mer is spending $800 on a 8em, an honor to God and his cause,
time itinerants, mounts his faithful ier death than this spirit. Our only trines he preached were mighty then ad inga second story to the parson- and a ciedit to the people of Lufkin,
steed and itinerates, preaching in ev- protection now is, that when one of and are no less mighty now. A8e 4 . ° erwise adding to and C. F. GOODENOUGH, L. E.
ery 'city with acceptability and power, our gifted preachers goes in this di- GEO. G. SMITH. muu mg it. ________________
The editorial work is admirably done rection he soon finds another Church _____________ Other Matters. , cep, oe —L—, U
and no one needs to be guessing about home more agreeable. _ eieil, pittsburg Four ji g , , SUMMER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY,
the opinions of the Midland editor. The new book of Bishop Candler led THINGS IN GEN ERAL—PITTSBU RG Fournewveagues have been organ- The Summer School of Theology,
We have a modern Holston Chris- me to secure and read “Tyerman’s Life DISTRICT IN PARTICULAR. +ed‘,n f " ome Mission Socie- conducted at Georgetown last June
tian Advocate, owned and directed by of Whitefield.” I had read his letters, Dear Advocate I have not written bershin of okl ene"htthemem- under the efficient management of
a layman, formerly the publisher of his sermons and his life by Gillies, and yoXr tome time, but now the spirit ?n some cases ones do,X and Rev. W. L. Nelms, D. D., was in my
the Holston Methodist, and published not long ago I found in a Canada cata- Xes me and I must write. have received into he Church on We judgment a great success.
at Knoxville, Tenn., which serves a logue the first edition of his first Jour- m°6s 5 ana i nave received into the Church on pro- I wish to give my hearty endorse-
local purpose, reaching many of the nal and bought it, but I had never The Texas Advocate Again. and have lost “*.2 L te,135 ment to the work done and also ex-
poorer families of the Church. Rev. read Tyerman’s life, though it had been I like it so well I must praise it a Conference 27 death 19 leaving us a press my gratitude for the pleasure
James I. Cash serves as editor, while published these twenty-eight years. little "It grows in grace, grows in net gain of 24! But I must Sof now and profit Ireceived, therefrom. I be-
faithfully engaged as a pastor in some Tyerman’s life of Wesley I have read strength grows in favor with the peo- • T „ Mi ’ lieve this school is of God. It is just
of the Holston charges. His work is several times, as well as his life of ple It is maintaining royally its title p;I, m,uic • - SM-nH. what most of our preachers in Texas
largely a labor of love, as I suppose Samuel Wesley and the Oxford Metho- to “The Advocate Militant.” The only -8’ -5hnr need; and, judging from the attend-
no salary is paid for his work. dists, but this is the first reading of regret that its friends can find is that
I think there is no abatement , of Tyerman’s Whitefield. its circulation (while large) is
our interest in the Nashville Christian What a wonderful story it tells. The three times greater than it is.
Advocate, since the Holston editor of grandson of an English rector, the son . .
the great official was retired to the of an innkeeper of small estate, bright, Oour Editor as an itineran .
Episcopal bench. handsome, witty, frolicsome as a kit- We read of him a few weeks ago at the pastor, who introduced a number ers. In the kingdom of God. That
The preachers and many laymen ten, a perfect actor, and mimic, with Como Circuit dedicating a church. He of the members, these likewise giving which blesses the ministers of Texas
who read and keep up with the great good early advantages in which his spoke of our old East Tenness.ee a warm reception, and urging us to Will prove a blessing to everybody
work and enterprises of the Church training in English was very careful, friend, F. M. Dossett. Frank and I try and locate in their midst. else in Texas. The program for this
are made stronger and wiser by its and his knowledge of the fundamen- were schoolboys together at Dossett’s The pastor is a clear, earnest, faith- Summer is most excellent. No preach-
weekly visits. The brother who wants tals very satisfactory. Dipping into Schoolhouse in 1867, 1868 and 1869; ful expounder of the Gospel of Christ, er can aford.t Stay away who can
to make it serve as a conference or- Latin until he could read Virgil, then came to Texas together in 1871; drift- not failing to make his sermons tell PoSSibl! afford to go.
gan by means of a corps of correspond- a young bartender, drawing ale and ed apart. He went to Northeast Tex- against the prevailing sins of omis- W. H‘ MATTHEWS,
ents selected for each conference ter- setting out brandy bottles for the as; I stayed in Middle East Texas, sion and commission, both among Brownwood, Texas,
ritory, to edit the news thereof, would guests, and with white apron on serv- He went to the farm and I to the pul- Church members as well as the out- -------------■—
In my judgment make a great mistake, ing them, generally by vivacious and pit. Neither of us had a dollar. Now side world. I have heard him preach Professionalism unmakes the
The concentration of patronage of all merry, sometimes profoundly concern- he is worth several thousand; I not a some very incisive, cutting sermons er Ram’s Horn. e Preach-
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