Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1885 Page: 4 of 8
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ON THE RAIL.
The trains connect at Bells, Grayson
county, and it is only a two or three
hours’ run from Bonham to Greenville.
“We spent the night here with Judge J.
|S. Sherrill. He was once a pupil of ours,
and it brought up old recollections to be
with him. We told him, when a little
white-headed school-boy, that he could
be judge or president, if he would try,
and he has tried. He has become a
prominent citizen, and is growing plump
and slightly bald; but it must not be
mferred that the writer of this is yet an
old man, for he is merely turned of
forty.
On account of a public school meeting
in town, there was no effort to have
preaching at night. Greenville . has
grown beyond its village proportions,
and like nearly all thrifty Texas towns
has decided to have a public free school
ten months in the year. The question
to be discussed was, whether to
have one central school house
for the whole town, or have a school
house in everv ward. Unfortunately
for Greenville, there is a little branch,
tunning through the center of the town,
and the central school house could not
be built on both sides of this branch at
the same time. Therefore, it was an-
other case of south against north, and
occasioned^ good deal of sectional
strife. The ten speakers that addressed ^
the assembly shed streams of fratricidal
oratory, and at times the decorum
approached the Chesterfieldian displays %
of the nineteenth legislature. As no
municipal Henry Clay or Horace Gree-
ley could be found/to fill up the bloody
chasm of that unfortunate spring branch
the twenty-thousand-dollar central
school building was voted down, and a
resolution was adopted to -erect &
school house close by every man’s* door
in town. This closed the issue, and set
Greenville back several years into the
uneducated past.
There are several resident ministers
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at Greenville, but very little preaching.
Bro. Caskey is crippled from his fall,
and will perhaps never recover, Bro.
Ezzell is traveling in the interest of the
Great Legacy. Bro. Reedy is medical
evangelist or canvasser for a doctor.
The church (the elect portion of it) meets
every Lord’s day to break bread, and
keeps up a Sunday-school. We spent
one night with the family of Bro. Ezzell,
in their home in thejsouthem suburbs of
the town, but Bro. E. was away on a
canvassing and lecturing trip.
On Friday, assisted on our way by
Bro. Son -* and Bro. Carlin, we
went to Campbell, and preached at
night to a small audience. ,, A public
debate in the school house drew away
much of the audience. The church
here has “gone dead.” Some of the
members have moved away, some have
died, and there is now no reg-
ular worship. There is much,
demand for gospel labor in Hunt coun-
ty, and for elders that will feed
the flocks. Bro. J. C Lee will perhaps
evangelize in this county in future.
Spending the night with Bro. Howard,
on Saturday morning we boarded the
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1885, newspaper, April 8, 1885; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth914426/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.