Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-06-11
From, Columbia.

Dill OF 1are oHered TO the Verdant,
sightseeing country parsons. If
some men, whom / know, had
taken a text just as 1 boarded the
train, / would have reached Nash
vile before they had reached their
lastly" 1t is said of "some folks"
that they go to the circus to let the
children see the animals. / went
to the exposition to get my railroad
ticket stamped. These "some folks"
are said to enjoy, hugely, the per-
formances of the higher order of
animals, and this preacher abso-
lutely got into or on a c0TouSdt.
How we did circle round the gap
ing throng," as Byron has it. The
exposition was nothing to compare
with the one held a year ago, and
the people seemed to have antici-
pated this fact. The merchants of
Nashville were not a unit, some of
them, wholesale, 7 suppose, were
painfully supine. The Tennessee
kitchen was the God-honOred spot
connected with the exposition.
Why? Because brave women were
working heroically to raise fund
to sustain home where fallen
women and unfortunate children
might find a refuge from the storm
of temptation and sin, and be made
to feel that there was a God, and
that He had people in Nashville.
These wives and mothers, some of
the very best society that Nashville
now has, or ever will have, have
banded themselves together as a
board of managers, and have dem
onstrated the practicability of a
Mission Home. 1t has been in
successful operation for more than
seven years. During that time
large numbers of women have been
the beneficaries of its fostering care.
From that Home some of them
have gone to good homes in respect
able families, others have been
taken back to their original homes,
still others have married, and are
to-day in the enjoyment of home
of their own. learned, from Mrs.
DIR. Redford, that the Kitchen"
had banked about one thousand
dollars to the credit OF the Home.
/ visited the institution, and found
it TO be most excellent place for
the end had in view. The proper
ty was the gift of man who felt in
his heart that he could say: $50
thy way and sin no more" and a
fund has since been raised to add a
hospital to the building. This done
and the home will be complete.
The next on bill of fare was the
State Temperance convention, held
in the hall of representatives. 1t
was an enthusiastic assembly from
different parts of Tennessee, urging
the calling of a state convention to
amend the constitution and prohib-
it the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors in the state. The
truth is, Mr.. Editor, the issue is
upon us, and the battle will never
close until Tennessee is free. For
my own humble part, L can say that
the work has my hearty co-Opera-
ton and prayers, and will have,
until my children sleep in the
grave and the memory of them OBJ
liberated. l leave this subject, and
forward you clipping from our
work. with the request that you
give it a place in your Temperance
column" which column is a credit
to you.
Another attraction was the house
that Vanderbilt. The campus is
perfectly splendid" Wesley Hall
is going rapidly on to completion.
The bishops house-Episcopal par
'sonage-corresponds with the Scrip
tural statement that eff man de-
sireth the Office of bishop, he de-
sireth a good work."
The work of the University seems
to have given entire satisfaction,
and the young men were highly
commended by Chancellor Garland
for their gentlemanly department.
Gov. Colquitt delivered an address,
which, for actual merit, will not be
excelled in that institution for years.
Post 6elllaa politics almost univer-
sally conducted on the principle
that right is right, received a casti-
cation at his hands that the young
men will remember through life.
The Plymouth pastor was next on
the program. He is wonderful
man. As he appeared in Masonic
Theatre, Nashville, l seemed to
live over again the exciting sensa-
ton connected with him. He
throws around his audience the
fascination of a wonderful elocu-
ton and beautiful theories, sand
wiched with Yankee 6OSh. He sat
urates his audience with Beecher,
and they never right up until they
get away and cool off. Then, when
he, and his utterances, lie before
them, for cool and inevitable in
spection, they remember much in
him that belongs in Plymouth, and
not in Nashville. His race will
soon be over-it has been an event
full one.
A run down to GAINESVILLE was
next in order. 1 paid nights rest
to hear the preacher of the Tennes-
see conference, and heard him on
Sunday morning. How nice it is
for one wagon to move two preach
ers, and only few hundred yards
instead of a hundred miles. At 8
p. NJ. heard portion of sermon