The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-01
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Brother Duncan Sends His New Years
Greetings.

Brother Duncan Sends His New Years
Greetings.
Happy New Year to the HERALD
and every one of it's readers! | feel
as if | were well nigh near enough
to step over and have an all-round
shake.
1t is Christmas eve! The home of
our old friend Santa Claus is being
erected in the church near by. To-
night the children will call. What
a happy time they have in store for
them.
How many of my dear Tennessee
Sunday school children crowd my
very heart and memory this happy
Yule-tide. My own sweet children,
once gathered around our ipgleside
and knees, are, save one, away from
us now. And yet | know and feel,
how very near they are to US. Rail-
roads, telegraphs and telephones fill
their places, and bring the world
very close together L know. But
Gods Holy Spirit, and the ties of
affection well nigh seat my dear
ones around me as in the days long
gone by. Our daughter and her
young friend spend the holidays
with us, and then we will be alone
again. / almost feel THE touch of
a vanquished hand" and hear 1.-The
sound of voice that is still" A
refined tongue, and an almost burst
ing heart, brings the lump up in my
throat. Trivial trials and tears.
Deep grief dazes. Out of it all the
soul leaps in prospect of immor-
tality.
Let us talk Texas and Taylor
We touched Texas at San Antonio
late in October; the guests of San
Antonio Female College, Rev. Jno
E. Harrison, a whilom Tennessee
itiuerant, President. Our stay there
was delightful. During the time
attended the session of the Wes'
Texas Conference, at Llans, Bishop
, Keener presiding. From San An
,, tonic we went to Waco and spen
several days with our son, Rev
> Jerome Duncan, who is now on hi,
!. fourth year in Morrow Street M. Il
, Church South, in that city. There
: we met many old Tennessee anC
: Kentucky friends. Wethen met tn
y Northwest Texas Conference a
r | Waxahachle, Nov. l8. Who shoult
L find there with open heart an
q home to entertain me but my oil,
v Lynnville friend, 10. B. McCane.
+ tell you we Jared royalty. I'll tel
n you secret. 10. is married to on
i of the loveliest women in all Texas
= At this Conference also, Bisho
# Keene presided. The Conferenc
q is crowded. And when a transfe
sits there for nearly a week, an
" sees good men refus Ell admission o
i trial for want of room, he feels as
"a he would be willing to go Towel
w the poorest work in the Conference
is And when the Bishop read me OF
IL to Taylor" although l had new
W seen the place but once, and thi
to from the depot and railroad, l WI
a. delighted.
ID Taylor is pre-eminently a railroa
ht town; 5000 inhabitants, 300 Meth
is dist, good parsonage, and an ope
ing for new church building son
g. of these days. They paid their pa
ST tor 1920 last year; what they W
e pay this year depends on sever
ne things; chiefly the acceptability
no no their pastor, | think. The Rev. Sa
~ P. Wright, former citizen of Nor
- gomery county, Tenn, is my "b
rit loved" He is born presidi
nm elder, so I infer from what [ ha
a seen:of him.
lv Methodism in Texas, as well
70 elsewhere, has suffered mu
" financially from the stringency
a., the times, but her evangeliC
" movements are almost hercules
Our n. w. Texas Conference is col
posed of strong body of men
49, nured to sacrifice and toll for
~ Master. They have greeted
iu most warmly. 1 have been associi
Vi ed with a number of their leadi
men in two general Conferenc
and they made me quite at no,
with them when L reach
=, WaXahachie. L. j. DUNCAN
mo-