Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-18

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HOW 1T IS TO AFFECT socfErY--A GLIMPSE
AT IT'S MANY BENEFITS.
EDITOR GAZETTE. We have seen Ia the
articles heretofore on this subject the
plan for the new church anc have fore
Swallowed its influence upon society and
have advanced the idea that, for good, It's
proposed influence goes hand in hand
with the magnificent school houses that
have sprung up as by magic in our midst.
We now purpose In this article 70 forecast
the rapid growth OF Northwest Texas and
the causes that viii insure this result, and
then the consequent growth Of society
and the demands OF society as IL grows.
In the last decade Northwest Texas has
grown In manner unprecedented In
Southern history, and yet we cannot real
ize that 1t is permanent and will continue
In the same ratio. But we affirm that its
growth in the next ten years win be equal
10 that OF the last ten years. The causes
that lead TO this result are manifold.
Among some of them are the fact that
this region Is on a parallel of latitude that
win support not only a short, sharp but
bleak winter, such as we are having now,
but also seasons for growing the fruits OF
the earth; such as, take 1t all in all, can
not be found In an equal quantity any
where on the face OF the earth. The
Panhandle Of Texas, Joined TO Northwest
Texas, as it is now understood,
forms an area OF farming lands which,
for richness and variety Of soil and
salubrity Of climate, can nowhere be
equaled, or excelled. On a single mile
square here can be found growing all the
important cereals that produce food for
man aud beast, and the staple products
of southern climate, corn and cotton
added TO the wool-gIowing and cattle in
terests) are also found growing side by
side with these. This can nowhere else
be found In such vast quantities, and
these bring population, and population
adds wealth, garnered from this wealthy
soil. The cities Of the South in the past
were few and confined to the water
courses, because We were an agricultural
people and our system OF labor did not
demand them. Now we lind not only a
quiet but gradual segregation OF races
going on in the South, the whites drifting
West TO new fields, leaving the blacks 10
continue ia the old places with the
ancient ways of corn and cotton, but we
find that the great hive of the North,
which, in all ages, has supplied all
Southern countries with new, fresh,
stout and invigorating blood, has learned
the way to the empire in the Lone State
1 Northwest Texas. The arts and sciences,
too, are quadrupled by recent inventions,
and cities must be built 10 stimulate and
afford room for this new growth. Be-
fore the war the railroad and telegraph
corporations alone afforded a field for
such ventures; now we have them multi
! piled hundred fold, and hence the GER
| tainty OF the growth OF towns and cities.
| So that Fort Worth or Dallas need not
/ fear to be overshadowed one by the other,
| but every town in Northwest Texas Is
growing, with no retrOgrade in single
/ instance.
/ Now, all this means that society
/ is preparing Tor q magical advance
/ onward and while we think that
such church as is proposed
Is an undertaking at which we at first
| blush stand back appalled, at It's cost, we
mean to be understood that it is not only
I in the range OF possibilities but II is al
most certainly proba le that all this vast
region around which our city is the cen
/ ter will be dotted with wilderness Of
such spires Ia the next decade. Aud why
| this prediction? Because society so pop
ulous as ours Is now, and is TO continue,
requires moral goyernment-goyernm
| of the conscience as well as the enforce
ment Of the civil laws. Ciyil as well as
moral law is based on the consent OF the
| governed. This is the theory OF our gov
eminent, which is fashioned truly after
\ the wants of man. You can best enforce
law when the subjects Of it are under
the influence of its spirit. Texas as a
| state has the most stringent laws con-
corning property rights. Oar courts are
busy daily in settling these disputes but
| little of this can reach the conscience OF
I the individual. You must do this by your
moral machinery-all OF which Is depend
ent upon the Christian Hence the ne
cessity Of some such attractive plan toT
the assemblage of church members and
church-goeTs who are not members at In
teryals that society may crystalize into 0
i moral shape that renders IL Impossible by
a well-balanced, healthy public opinion
for men to drift into evil and so down tc
the bad,
An army of little ones, too, are fast be
ing reared here in this new land, and the
parent is very hard TO be found who
would not prefer such influences as pro
posed in this grand ediiice, and under IL:
tutelage, TO the dens and purliews OF mi
guilty that are to be found, too often, II
the heart OF our populous community.
There is not term Of our district court
that passes in which parents are not TO bt
found pouring out their hard-earnec
lmeans TO rescue their children from i'm
pending legal charges, and often do We
hear the confession wrung from then
That had society done its part with them
their child would, instead OF ieloniou:
charge being preferred, be enjoying the
confidence and esteem of its fellows.
We have musical and mental talents
lying dormant in this church, as well az
in all other like associations, that require
such training and association as the music
hall, library and reading-room OF the pro
posed plan. u
Sheriff N. H. Baylor OF Parker county
says: =,
That he suffered for two years will
pain in the side, that at times was SC
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