The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-07-01
PUBLISHING HOUSE CLAIM
Can Never BE Settled Until it is
Settled Right.
Rev. 4, j. Duncan Thinks IL is Enough
to Make Every Loyal Methodist
Sick at Heart.
TAYLOR, TEXAS, June "a.

EDITOR HERALD The memories
of the day and night spent up" in
Columbia abide with me. Twenty.
six days of travelling and sight
seeing were forgotten in the whirl
of greeting and handshaking around
the square, out in private residences
and at the concert at the Ather@um.
And yet it is hard for me to say
which was the greater sensation,
the Joy of meeting with some, or the
sorrow of missing others. L was
busy man. Altogether | write it
down a joyful time in dear old CO.
lumbia. Five years have wrought
many changes there. They were
the more noticeable to me because
of my absence during the time. My
children of other days are the young
men and ladies of to-day. 1t was
hard for me to realize it. Some are
proving great Joy to their fathers
and mothers by coming to honor and
usefulness; others are breaking the
hearts that have yearned over them
from their birth, by seeing how low
in the scale of degradation they can
descend. 1t is said that the law Of
compensation runs through every
thing. Then somewhere in the
great beyond must be awaiting great
reward for the true and faithful ones
who, with an abiding faith in God,
have given their children in prayer
to Him, and yet Witnessed their
utter disregard for the true, the
beautiful and the good. But l love
and pray for the very worst one
among them, that God may yet
reach, renew, and save him.
bad delightful Eastern trip. l.
was nv second. In 1886 [ visited
New York, Washington and other
Eastern cities. l had great advant-
age from that trip during the one
recently made. The General Con-
ference was my mecca, however.
[ had attended three as a visitor and
two as delegate, and you may
know it was pleasure to meet
again some of the veterans Of the
church and general conference.
The conference did much that was
helpful to the church. 1t was a
conservative body. The spirit was
too ripe perhaps. Sometimes in a
strained effort at conservatism a
conference becomes pennywise and
pOundfOOlish. | think this is true
in the Publishing House case. 1t
ought to have been bOttomed aud
settled, so far as that General Con-
| ference and the church are con
cerned, in open session, and the pro-
ceedings published to the world
| Many went away from there sur.
prlsed that it did not. 1t is the old,
old story that "a thing will never
stay fixed until it is fixed right"
The Congressional Record of June
l3 IL enough to make any loyal
Methodist sick at heart. And yet
there is this: Every Senator North
and South accords to the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South I'M
stinted praise, and discriminates
sharply between it's agents and its
body. know no word that more
thoroughly expresses the feelings of
the church and preachers in Texas
than the one word pain" l do not
believe the Book Committee can
satisfy the church under the circum
stances, but that an extra session Of
the general conference will be re.
quired. However, shall be glad tC
be mistaken.
Bishops Gambler and Morrison
enter the Episcopacy without &
cloud across their sky. They neeC
not say that it is yet four months
until the harvest. They have only
to lift up their eyes and see that tn,
field is now white. They will doubt
less enter in with their colleagues
and swing marfully their sickles.
Dear old Bishop Keener! Wher
shall we cease to love and homo
him? Never! His profound learn
ing and ponderous thought; hi
keen wit, sometimes cutting like
razor; his warm heart, often beating
tenderly behind a seeming shield o
marble; bis invaluable experience
in the history, economy and admin
istration of the church! MarvelOu
, man!
DR.. DuBose will bring to tn
league the vivacity of a young life
the culture nee ded. The poetry in
terspersed will hang like a necklac
on the bosom of the organization.
, know him and his work in Califor
MIA. He is affectionate in his nature
gentle as a woman, and optimisti
t as a worker. Let all the leagues re
, jOice and be glad. Their leader is
} real middle-o -the-rOad man.
, l did not intend that this scree
should be so churchly. l cam
home in good health, travel worr
and happy. l love the church, m
old friends and foes. / am girdin
| myself for life's closing labors. B
t the grace of God they shall be, d
= much as in me lies, for the glory {
= His name and the salvation of mel
Here's howdy and a God bles
l you, for every HERALD reade
( | 1HiOS. r. T. DUNCAN.