The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-05
DIXIE WILLIAMS AT HOME.
The Lebanon Register Lets in Some Light
On His Home Life.

On His Home Life.
On last Sunday morning a large
audience was present at the Cum
berland Presbyterian church, and at
Caruthers Hall at night, to hear the
evangelist, Dixon c.. Williams,
preach. He has lived in Lebanon
all his life and is as well known in
this community as any man ever
reared in it--everybody knows Dix
lie. The large-hearted, generous
boy grew into an energetic, push
ing business man. He remained a |
boy only short time, yet he is still
a boy and will be, no doubt, as long
as he lives. He engaged in bust
ness as a clerk in the National
Bank of Lebanon, when a mere boy,
and has been in business contInu-
ously ever since, until he gave up
everything last spring to engage
fully in evangelistic work. During
his eight or ten years of business
he engaged in several different pur-
suits, sometimes having a number
of irons in the fire together. Be
sides his clerkship in the National
Bank, he has been boek-keeper and
teller of the Peoples, now the Sec
end National Bank; he has owned
and operated two large livery and
feed stables, has engaged in the
coal and lumber business, grain,
-four and mill business. real estate
business, printing and newspaper
business, mercantile agency, cores
poDdent for newspapers, etc, etc.
He always had his hands full and
was busy every hour. His nervous,
impuIsive energy has kept him in a
gallop all his life. He never could
be satisfied with a slow or small
business. 1t must either be, or
promise to be, large and it must
move.
An illustration Of this trait is
seen here in the largest livery sta
BILE ever built in Lebanon, which he
appropriately called "the mammoth
stable" He always drove a fast
horse, for the reason he had not the
patience to 90 slow. His old bug
gy horse, though blind, is the fast
est horse, perhaps, in Lebanon, and
this is a place noted for its fast hor
ses. When he turned the Register
over to US last May we found we
had upon our hands one of the larg
est papers in the state, which we
directly reduced. In his rapid ca
reer of business for ten years in the
same community it would be
strange if he-had made no enemies,
and while he has many times been
criticised, and many times severel Y,
he perhaps has not an enemy in all
this community where he Is well
known by all, white and black.
Those who have not approved have
yet been his friends and rejoice in
his success.
After an absence of several months
holding meetings IN several differ
ent states, he returned last Satur-
day TO visit his parents and friends
before going to California and the
other Pacific states. 1t was known
that he would leave on MOnday,
that he would be gone for year or
two, and as most of the people here
had never heard him preach, there
was a general desire that he should
preach on Sunday. SO it was hast
lily announced that he would preach
at the G. P. church on Sunday
morning and at Caruthers Hall at
night. Sunday was beautiful day.
The large audience room of the
church was filled, all anxious to
hear what the preacher, whose prai
ses are spoken in half a dozen
states, had to say. We were not
present in the morning, but under
stand he preached a fine sermon.
But Sunday night was the interest
ing service of the day. The large
chapel at Caruthers Hall was liter
ally packed and filed to overflow
ing. many standing during the
whole service. All the churches in
in town closed to attend this meet
ing, and people came in from the
country, until this large hall was
filled fuller, perhaps, than it ever
was before.
We would like to give a full &C
count of the service and sermon but
have not the space. A more atten-
tive and interested audience was
never seen in Lebanon. From be-
ginning TO end the closest attention
was given. The speaker was at his
best, aid it was a scene long to be
In closing, in earn
est words he appealed to his old
friends and associates to serve God,
and before parting he offered a pa
thetic prayer for his home, his old |
friends and especially those who
are out of Christ. The multitude
quietly, going their ways |
home meditating and wondering
how strange the ways of God in &C
complishing His ends.
Mr.. Williams left Monday for |
Sherman, Texas, where he will hold |
"a meeting, and in November he goes
to California. Many hearts in Leb-
anon will go up to God daily for his
success in that far away country, |
and will rejoice always in good It'd
ings from him. Heaven bless Dixie.
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