Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 30, 1879 Page: 3 of 8
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erty, Ellis county; and church
meeting at Salem, and another
house alternately. Latter con-
gregation numbers some two
hundred.
B. Floyd, Christian Hill,Dal-
las county; originally 9 mem-
bers ; at present 59—30 faith-
ful meeting members.
Dr. J. N. Atkins, Lampasas
Springs; 20 members ; eight or
nine discant congregations of
100; ten miles distant a con-
gregation of 25; all doing mod-
erately well; possibly might
do better.
A. P. Aten, Taylorsville,
Williamson county; church
built a year ago; about 60
j^ood, substantial members;
union Sunday-school; prayer
meeting every Thursday eve-
ning ; meet every Lord’s day.
Round Rock, small congrega-
tion, but no house. Austin has
no preacher. Manor, congre-
gation prospering.
, W. L. Moseley,Palestine; con-
dition has been bad; is improv-
ing.
R. Clark reports Perry Creek,
Erath county; has been injured
by unworthy preachers ; meet
once a month to hear preach-
ing ; want the next preacher to
bring credentials.
G. W. Williamson, of Davil-
la, in favor of credentials.
S. R. Ezzell, Georgetown;
had been traveling a great deal
in the interest of the “Great
Legacy,” for which he had suf-
fered greatly; labors scattered,
etc. Georgetown: Father Strick-
land preached there before the
war; died out during the war ;
revived now.
S. H. Denham, Hunt county;
represents no church.
C. M. Wilmeth, old church,
Dallas ; regular work. Makes
miscellaneous report.
A. Clark called for. Present-
ed workings of Add-Ran col-
lege.
T. F. Rawlins, church at
Add-Ran ; numbers 160 ; Sun-
day-school 200 ; Bible school;
'prayer meeting on Thursday
night; break the loaf Lord’s
day, and preaching morning
and night.
J. H. Smithers, Lamar coun-
ty ; churches not doing well in
that and adjoining counties.
Adjourned till 8 o’clock p.
m.
June 14, 8 p. m.
Met pursuant to adjournment.
Meeting proceeded to the se-
lection of a place and time for
next state meeting. Bro. Mc-
Pherson nominated Waxahach-
ie; Bro. Moseley nominated
Palestine ; Bro. Dimmitt nom-
inated Bonham, but afterwards
withdrew it. Waxahachie re-
ceived 104 votes; Palestine 75.
Waxahachie was selected as
the place, and Wednesday be-
fore the 4th day of July, 1880,
as the time for the next state
meeting.
It was requested that the
churches report at the next
state meeting their number of
members, how often they meet
—church, Sunday-school and
prayer-meeting.
Thanks of the meeting, at
the instance of Bro. Skiles,
were tendered to the citizens of
Add-Ran and vicinity for their
generous hospitality.
Bros. McPherson, Miller and
Trippett were appointed a
committee to secure reduced
CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.
races on railroads and stage
lines to next state meeting.
Upon the call of Bro. Surber,
Bro. R. Clark was requested to j
speak, which he proceeded to
do. - .
Bro. J. A. Clark, upon re-
quest, offered a few remarks.
Thanks of the meeting ten-
dered to chairman and secreta-
ry.
Meeting request that Chris-
tian Preacher and Christian
Messenger be requested to
publish proceedings.
Requested that short reports
be handed to the secretary for
embodiment in the minutes, by
those who had not reported.
Adjourned at 11:30 p. m. till
next annual meeting.
The following reports were
handed in to the secretary af-
ter the foregoing minutes were
made up:
C. M. Hawser, Mount Bird,
Dallas county; 45 members.
Bible class of 40. Meet week-
ly to break the loaf. No reg-
ular prayer-meeting. Preach-
ing twice a month by Bro.- Mc-
Intire.
W. L. Hunter, Richardson,
Dallas county: 40 members.
Bible class. Lord’s day meet-
ings. Preaching once a month
by Bro. Skiles.
Thomas Moore, Waco; 180
members. Meet and breffk the
loaf every Lord’s day. Pray-
er-meeting every Wednesday
night. Good Lord’s day school
with over 100 scholars. Good
brick meeting house, 40x60
feet, with baptistery. Lighted
with gas; out of debt; four
elders and six deacons ; church
in peace and harmony.
Colored church in Waco;
100 members ; Thomas and Isa-
ac Matthews preachers; are
building a house of worship ;
peace and harmony.
White Rock,. McLennan
county; 100 members ; meet
every Lord’s day ; good house;
good Sunday-school.
Bosqueville,McLennan coun-
ty ; 45 members.
Walnut Grove, McLennan
county; 40 members.
Mooresville, Falls county;
50 members.
South Bosque, McLennan
county; 30 members, .and Ce-
dar Grove 25.
J. Q. A. Walker, Moore’s
Springs, Lamar county ; near
100 members ; very much scat-
tered, hence a portion ot them
seldom get to meeting; met for
worship every Lord’s day;
Sunday-School of about 60;
good house for worship nearly
finished; preaching occasional-
ly ; about seven or eight con-
gregations in our county; 600
or 700 members ; some of them’
doing well; but perhaps all
might do more and better.
J. W. Moore, Comanche;
cause in this part of the coun-
try progressing slowly. Church
on Sweet Water numbers about
25 ; have no regular preaching;
meet every grst day of the
week to break bread; have
i
! Sunday-school; no prayer-
rp e e t i n g. Congregation on
Resley’s Creek numbers about
15; they meet on the first day
of the week for worship, to
celebrate the Lord’s death,
etc. Church on Rush creek
numbers 35; have preaching
once a month ; don’t know as
j to weekly meetings. Blanket
i Creek has about 35; meet
twice a month ; have no preach-
ing; brethren in the county
generally poor and not able to
support a preacher; we have
two able defenders of the gos-
pel, but they are not able to
preach without help ; they have
to labor with their own hands
for <a support, but preach
Lord’s day; they show a wi^
to do all they can ; no church
at the town of Comanche; we
earnestly solicit all passing
brethren to call and see us; we
will treat them the best we are
able ; we need preaching bad
ly; there are a great many in
this section that never heard
the gospel of the Son of God
preached; therefore we want
all' who can to help us ; we
have no money to offer, but
such as we have we will give
unto you.
[Here follows a list of the
names of those in attendance
upon the meeting, which we
are compelled to omit, but may
publish in some future issue.]
C. M. Wilmeth, G. L. Surber
and C. M. Wheat, the commit-
tee on orphan school, reported,
in substance, i. e., commending
that ajl members of the church
of Christ, in Texas, who are
interested in the support of an
orphan school in ‘ this state,
meet at Bryan on the first
Wednesday in October, to take
into consideration this subject,
including the propriety of put-
ting into the field a financial
agent. Thomas Moore,
Chairman.
J. S. Poyner, Secretary.
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Praying in Night-Watches.
I am not surprised at David’s
prayer to God in the night
watches ; at his rising from his
bed, and ascending to the roof
of the house, and when the
mighty heart of the city was
still and the mountains round
about Jerusalam were sleeping
in the calm brilliancy of an
eastern night, that he should
gaze with rajpture on the sky,
and pour forth such a beautiful
psalm of praise as “ When I
consider the heavens, the work
of Thy fingers,” etc.
The night is more suited to
prayer than the day. I never
wake in the middle of the
night without- feeling induced
to commune with God. One
feels brought more into contact
with him. The whole world
around us, we think, is asleep.
But the great Shepherd of Is-
rael slumbers not, nor sleeps.
He is awake, and so are we!
We feel in the solemn and si-
lent night alone with God. And
then there is everything in the
circumstances to lead one to
pray. The past is often vivid-
ly recalled. The voices of the
dead are heard,and -their forms
crowd around you. No sleep
can bind them. The night seems
the time in which they should
hold spiritual communion with
man. The future, too, throws
its dark shadow over you—the
night of the grave, the certain
death-bed, the night in which
no man can work. And then
everything makes such an im-
pression on the mind at night,
when the brain is nervous and
is susceptible. The low sough
of the wind among the trees ;
the roaring or eerie whish of
some neighboring stream ; the
bark or howl of the dog ; the
general impressive silence—ty.ll
tend to sober and solemnize the
mind, and to force it from the
world and its vanities, which
then seem asleep, to God, who
alone can uphold and defend
it.—Norman McLeod.
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What Whisky Does for a White Man.
In the streets of a Missouri
town, not many days since,two
white men, that is, two men
whose skins are white, met
three men whose skins are
black. The following colloquy
occurred:
Negro No. 1 to white man
No. 1: “ You look mighty fat
and slick.”
White man No. 1 taking
courage, said : “ Have not you
boys got a dime, two dimes,
twenty cents? Jim and I are
mighty dry, we want a drink.”
Darkey No. 2 responded:
“No. How would yrou exp’ect
us to have money ?”
White man No. 1 said : “You
have, you need not deny it;
you have got money, for you
are working all the time.”’
Darkey No. 2 denied the
possession of any “filthy lu-
cre.” White man No. 1 was
importunate and insisted that-
the negro had money enough
to treat the crowd, two men
with white skins and thVee
with black ones, and then of-
fered to bet the drinks that the
negro had that much money.
“Ha! ha!” said the negro,
“ no use to bet with you, you
got no money to pay the bet if
I win. I know I win, but I
will not bet with you for you
got no money.”
This ended the conversation
and white man No. 2 turned
away but was accosted and
chided by a town official for
being drunk, and warned that
he would have to come before
him if he did not behave bet-
ter. White man No. 2 replied
to the official:- “It is no use
judge. You have had me be-
fore you and it did not do a
bit of good. It is in me and
you can not get it out. It is no
use, judge.”
Now, just think of it, two
high-born, chivalrous (?) Mis-
sourians, getting right down to
the despised negro, begging
of him the pitiful sum of two-
tenths of a dollar to buy two
potations of whisky!
Just think of it! Two proud
Caucassians offering to bet
with the negro for the driaks,
anxious to sneak behind the
saloon-keepers blinds with
three Africans, and there drink
the vile stuff at the expense of
these “ niggers!”
Whisky is a great leveler.
It makes black and white to
meet on a common level. It
does not bring the black up to
the white, but it brings the
white down, down, DOWN to
the place where the black is
the better man if he has the
cash.—Ex.
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Seek the truth as it is in
Christ, and you will find real
pleasure.
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We all do [more harm than
we intend, and less good.
Speak little, speak truth;
spend little, pay cash.
To change and to better are
two different things.
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More men are drowned in
the bowl than in the sea.
Phillips & Duncan,
West Side Public Sqare,
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ARE
Now Receiving and Opening
A LARGE and COMPLETE STOCK ot
DRY GOODS. DRESS GOODS,
and NO T IONS.
Ladies^ and Gentlemens’ Underwear,
Boots and Shoes.
Hats, Caps, Clothing,
Trunks, Carpets,
INDIA RUBBER CLOTHING,
ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC.,
Which they are selling lower than ever,
r cash only.
Thev invite all who want GOOD
GOODS at the VERY LOWEST PRIC-
ES. to call and examine their stock be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
No trouble to show goods. Ladies’ and
gentlemens’ CUSTOM MADE SHOES a
SPECIALTY.
-O-
Dress Making
Carried on in the Back Room of
the store. Good Sts and good work
guaranteed in the latest styles.
ALSO
Agents for the celebrated Aveiy Walking
arid Sulkv Plows.
no39-t febl PHILLIPS & DUNCAN.
Bonham Seminary,
7
FOR MALES AND FEMALES
mills SCHOOL WILL OPEN ITS
A Thirteenth Session on the
First Monday in September. Next,
and continue Nine Months. All will be
taught here that is usually taught in the
best schools in the land.
The Music Class will be under the
charge of Miss SALLIE J. CARLTON,
who has enjoyed the instruction of one of
the best music teachers in the State of Mis-
souri, and has declined a. position as mu-
sic teacher in Christian College.
Nothing need be said of the past suc-
cess ot the school, for its former students
are living evidences of this. We ask a
fair share of the patronage of the com-
munity, with the assurance that we will
do our duty to all as we have opportunity.
The terras are as liberal as any school
of like grade in the country. For fur-
ther particulars, apply to
CHAS. CARLTON, Principal.
Bonham, Texas, duly 16,187&
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