The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-04
THE GREAT SOUTH.
DR.. Burrows Tells HIS Flock what
He Saw In n Recent Visit 10 MtssiS-
sipDi and Texas.-Yhe Great Future
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Louisville Courier-Journal.

sippi and Texas. -Yhe Great Future
of Texas.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
In his discourse yesterday morning in the
Broadway church, DR.. Burrows had the fol
lowing interesting things +" 9oy "oout his re-
cent trip to the south. TIE ilSt taken from
Joshua xiii, |, reads: be-" ia very
much land to be possessel. y d. Burrows
said;
"My recent visit to Mississippi and Texas
revealed to me many things and suggested
many things of profound interest My first
stopping place was Starkville, Miss'' where
the state agricultural and mechanical college
ia located. OF this institution the accom-
plished and energetic General Stephen d.
Lee is president. 1t was the first annual
comr epcemen. of the college. 1t was
founded and partially endowed by funds OF
the United States government for like lnsti
tutions in all the. states. A fine pile OF
buildings has already been erected, with &C.
commodations for some $50 students Its
halls were crowded during this its first ses-
sion, and moro than hundred applications
for admission of pupils were from necessity
declined. This promises to be-a hat many
schools in the state similarly endowed do not
vet promise to become-s school for instruc.
ton in the specialtes intended. A farm of
some eight hundred acres is worked by the
students, who are required to labor prac-
ticslly three hours each day. For this labor
they are paid at the rate of eight cents per
hour, and are allowed to put 10 extra hours
when the work does not Interfere with
studies and Rotations; 30 that some OF them
earn enough to pay one -half of their board
ing expenses, the tuition being free. Under
the direction of competent and scientific
teachers, this seems efficient agricultural
education. In addition to this, we'll,
constructed and supplied laboratory is fitted
10 for chemical analysis and experiment, in
which soms forty or fifty students at a time
can test soils. rocks, minerals, ETC., and make
themselves familiar with what is needed tor
intelligent, scientific farming. And all this
and more, let it be remembered, is in Misss-
sippi, where it has been popularity imagined
white boys were rather averse to manual
work. Gen. Lee thought that If sufficient
building. could be provided, thousand Mis-
sissippi boys could be gathered in this Stark
Vile collage within Jew years. And hne
manly looking set of boys they are too, those
under NJ itary discipline and drill the officer
and ms.nema.ical professor being a West
Point graduate, appointed and supported by
the United States government.
There is suggestive material for reflection
and for prophecy in these facts. l confess
was as profoundly surprised as gratlfied by
my observations in Mississippi.
My next hating place was in Gonzales,
Texas, where state Sunday school conven-
ton held its annual convocstion. There we're
gathered number of wide awake, enterpris-
Ing Christian workers, men with minds Inn
pressed with sense of the grandeur and
future of Texss--with hearts filled with long
inps to prepare the way for the evangelizatlon
of the heterogeneous multitudes that are
opening homes in that important domain
Over three hundred new Sunday schools have
been organized in Texss through the jealous
lsbors OF their missionary, w. ID. Powell,
during the past two or three years, and the
convention was inspired to give him col
leae ue in the broad field, and besides squaring
accounts by cash contribution of $780, for
tue past year, raised subscription of over
$1,000 to carry on the good work for the next
year.
The seeds of evangelical truth are being
sown broadcast over the prairies of Texas,
and grand harvests faith foresees in the com
ing generations. The brethren are "atempt.
ing great things for God, and
are expecting great things from God"
They are arranging for line of stations
and mission aries along the southern and
western borders down to the Rio Grande
and over the great railroad track that is
drawing immigrants by thousands on the
Pacific ocean. They are throwing their
hearts over the border, too, and calling for
evangelists TO unfurl the standard OF the
Lord in old Mexico. May God bless the
gospel pioneers of Texas with wise counsels,
unninchipg courage and grand success.
From Gonzales l passed along the wells
built railroad through vast stretches of
wild mesquite covered prairies, opening
TO the far-distant horizon like the
pillows of calm summer
ocean, TO the quaint old Mexican
city of San Antonio. 1t looks
like medieval r.ck-built ely, with narrow
winding streets, cooled by river rushing
along, q deep gorge through its heart, the
opposite banks connected by high bridges,
dropped down and hidden in a fat prairie.
OF course / went through the dungeon-like
fortress, the Alamo, where, 10 1886, for eight
days one hundred and forty men, led by
Travis and Crockett, defended themselves
against four Thousand MeAicsns, Of whom
sixteen hundred were killed or,wounded in
the repeated assaults. The whole force of
The beseiged were at last overwhelmed and
only three escaping, q young wife
Of one Of the officers. her child and q servant
| had the pleasure of an interview with
that lady, who is now living in
Austin, hearty elderly woman and q mems
Der OF the Baptist church there, who relates
many thrilling incidents Of those terrible
days
Many will remember the venerable Rev.
J. w. b. Cresth, who devoted some years Of
his life 70 collecting funds for the erection Of
q church edIfice 10 San Antonio. His wss-s
spontsneous, untiring labor Of love. You
never gave any money more wisely and
probably than for that object. A handsome
skits limestone, commodious church build
ing and parsonage. paid for and occupied BY
q seli-sustsining church and efficient pastor,
stands 10 San Antonio. We get . little i'm
patient sometimes 1t The frequent appeals
made for building churches In distant places.
IL we could only look forward . few years
and exsmir the practical outcome Of such
gifts. We should tbsnk God for the oppor-
tuuity OF making such Contributions. vent
through tbs church and parsonage, and did
tbsuk God.
Prom San Aptonio I went 70 Austin, the
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