The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

| record WoCld read: Adam uolu han
ech Lamech told Noah, Noah told
Abraham, Abraham told Jacob (and
| Stem told him, too), and JACOB toiu
Levi and Levi told Amram.
Lamech, Noah, Abraham, Jacob
Levi ana Amram. The % generations
are reduced to six men and those SIX
! were all men favored Of God and IN
the line of descent to David and Jesus
| Christ. Besides these men there were
rodlv women not few, Old Mother
Eve was there, the last and best part
of the creation, and probably lived
with Adam until his death. Don't you
know she loved to meet with her de-
scendants and how she sat in the cor
ner with her knitting and talked to
old Mother Enoch and Mother Me-
thusaleh and Mother Lamech, who was
her granddaughter, and
how she wept with them over that
apple business.
Resources indeed! Could historian
have any better or more truthful God
fearing men and women to learn from :?
Young men, beware how you become
infatuated or infected with this mod
ern idea of higher criticism.
For $500 years the authenticity OF
the Old Testament has been studied by
the most learned men of the ages. Paul
says: Unto the Jews were committed
the oracles of God. What if some do
not believe; shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect? God
forbid; yet let God be true, but every
man liar" Two hundred and eighty
five years before Christ 70 learned
men compiled the sacred canyon and it
has remained the same unchanged till
this day. But ever and anon some carp
ing and cynical mind strains itself to
find a flaw and calls it higher criticism.
Just like Seward and Giddings and
other fanatics did when they armed
old John Brown and declared that there
was higher law than the constitution.
Young man, stand by the faith OF the
ages, the faith of your fathers and be
not wise in your own conceit, for Solo
mon saith: "There is more hope of q
fool than of him."
have recently visited the good old
city of Columbus and received its hos
pitality and benediction. 1t is just my
age, and through all these years has
moved steadily and surely forward,
manufacturing with serenity and dig
nifty the character its cultured men and
women gave it in the beginning. How
broadly beautiful it was laid out; how
bountiful is its shade; how green the
grass on its public grounds; how beau
tiful the river that girdles it. Not for
single year has there been any
retrograde in the manners or morals of
its people. Considering its climate, so
ciety and prosperity | do not know
city that I had rather live in. 1t is
already large enough for moral safety,
for Jefferson spoke a truth when he
said that great cities We're pestilential
to good health and good morals. OF
course, we favor the increase of an in
dustrial population that keep the
wheels and spindles turning and the
wolf from the door and the beggar
from the streets and if every city cared
for its operatives in the mills as Column
bus does, there would be no object les
sons of misery TO be carried before the
legislature. / visited the young mems
club rooms of the Eagle and Phenix
mills. Yes, club rooms for factory boys
where they can spend their evenings
and read and write and battle and exer-
else instead of going to the saloons.
The beautiful library has 2yO00 volumes
of standard books and the reading
tables are furnished with the best
newspaper and magazine literature. /
cannot enumerate the pleasant and at
tractive features of these rooms. They
are all free or nearly so to the factory
boys who become members. Col. Gun
by Jordan is the big-hearted promoter
of this attachment to the mills and the
mill owners pay all the expenses.
Sad but sweet memories came over
me as I recalled the halcyon days when
the Hollis, Gouldings. Redds, Howards,
Thorntons and Warrens lived here, and
went to school and to college with
their sons. These boys are all dead
save two, and I am reminded of my
/ recall other leading citi-
zens who walked the streets and Ere
served the standard of honor and in
tegrity. Such men as Seaborn Jones
and Benning and Crawford and Chap
pei and Bethune and Bozeman and
Lomax. Shakespeare says: 1.-THE evil
that men do lives after them; the good
is oft inferred with their bones" I |
would reverse that expression, for good
deeds and their influence last longer
than evil ones and nowhere has the sue.
cession of good citizenship proved it
more palpably than in Columbus.
There is still wealth without ostenta-
ton and hospitality without a strain.
Not shyster among her lawyers nor a |
4uack among her doctors. Not fancy |
preacher among her clergy, nor a venal |
partisan among her editors. Fortunate |
eity; happy people!-Bill Arp, in At
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