Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-08

From Home to Heme.
To the ohroniele:
That means from my pastoral
home i'm Tennessee TO my business
home in Arkansas. Once a year
this trip must be made, and two
weeks be devoted to secular inter
ests, to keep salt In my bread. The
balance Of my time belongs to the
church, except the moments that
are given to the garden and truck
patch, making vegetables tor home
consumption. Most truly can say,
at love thy Church, o. God I"
Passing through Nashville yester-
day found that the CHRoNIcLEei cir
culated in that metropolis of South
ern Methodisna, and that this cor
respondent had readers there; and,
furthermore, that what / said about
the extreme difficulty i'm providing
homes for the preachers and dele
gates was not relished. I suppose
there is more or less difficulty OF
this kind wherever the Conference
II held, but we were not prepared
for II in Nashville, after having been
invited to go up TO our Jerusalem,
and enjoy a royal welcome this
centennial year. Let no generous
soul be offended at me; only let
those feel rebuked whose doors were
not thrown open to the weary ones
who had tOiled the year round 50
hard for the master, and thus lower
ed the standard of Christian hospi-
tally at our "head-centrc." / know
exactly what I am talking about,
and, whether or not ID be in good
taste to say what i do, no one can
cOntrovert the facts; and, you know
that / write to the CHRONICLE just
as | would TO Jim Pace or Bill
Vick-that's my way Of doing
things, whether popular or not do
not inquire. My convictions must
prompt my utterances and actions.
though the whole world look In an
other direction.
"Not changing the subject" a
family living on my farm here re-
ceived letter from PlummersYiIle,
Ark, Oct. q, containing this item
of news. whichis perfectly reliable
"a woman here had four children
at one birth, two boys and two
girls, weighing six pounds apiece"
This too is bad crop year In Ark
snsas, but there Is a good deal OF
mast and much game In the woods.
The yield OF cotton il something
better than it promised awhile back,
but the price is running excrucia-
tingly low. In my own case make
but little after repairs and taxes are
taken out of the rents. but I have q
tract of very fine land, In what ]
regard the best part of the State, on
the st. Louis and Helena r.. R., and
near the Memphis and Little Rock
r. R., which Bisoop Pierce once
told me to keep as "nest egg !"
and / shall try to hold it for my
children, at least. There Is to be
deer hunt for my benefit Friday,
and fat postum, OF enormous pro-
portions, has already been present.
ed to me. / am "one-gallows-fel-
low" among you ''big bugs" but
here am full-fiedged dignitary-
SO much more discerning and appre-
eiative are these folks than your
folks Sir? What did you say?
But, joking aside, this is a great
country, and the people are OF the
outspoken kind, much TO my liking.
And, have you not yet learned, that
this world can only be kept in sue
cessful motion by men whose prin-
ciples are not hid under a busheI,
In State or Church? There Is the
DRY Of another kind, which has my
unbOInded adherence and con-
tempt; so much so, perhaps, that i
sometimes go too far the other way
in giving expression to my convIc
tiOns-perhdps.
1 reached here early this morning
and expect to stay in Arkansas ten
days. A. T. GooDLoE.
Forrest City, Ark, Oct. p, 1884.