The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-12-27
LETTER FROM REV. 7. ]. DUNCAN.
George Stuart, Texas Metnodlsm, and
other Topics Interestingly
Discussed.


Stuart has been jamming the Method
list church in Columbia to the very
walls with men and women eager TO
hear what the great truth telling Evan
gelist had to say. | have known him
long and well. | have no doubt that
he preached the truth, and that many
thought that he was preaching the
whole truth. Wonders will never
cease. What a wonder ii is that men
will 20 to the polls and vote death and
destruction on their own families, and
the families of their neighbors. and
then go to George Stuart's meeting
and stand up on a proposition TO work
and pray for the destruction Of the
liquor traffic. There are in Columbia
some men who have stood for good
neighborhood ever since have known
them. They have been as true as
steel at every crucial moment Of the
history of the city. There are others
who have been as orthodox as John
Bunyan's laxative till the crucial
moment came, then they have set their
weather cocks and found that the wind
was blowing in favor of whiskev and
have run up the white flag. Columbia
is not alone in this. Such men are
to be found every where, in every
town and city in the country. You
never fight a moral battle in the town
that my heart does not run out to you
in love and sympathy. | can tell
away out here what is going on there
and what the opposition is DO ng
Dear old Barley Martin used to tell
me that he would sit out there in the
country and read the sermons / used
10 preach on social evils and see me in
his imagination go down beneath the
wave and stay still it seemed to him
that | would never rise again. But
truth is that these questions outlive
men and newspapers. They will exist
as long as mother has son in peril,
or woman has husband with his
heel upon her heart
George Stuart will be with me in
March. Leaving me, he goes to Jerome
in HillsborO, some thirty or forty miles
away. We are both in good towns and
are looking for some good work from
him. He did me good work in Mexia
two years ago, and the Lord will doubt
less bless him here. His work will be
different i'll some respects from that he
has to perform in most places. The
condition of our church is fine for a
gracious ingathering Of souls. There
is good religious state of feeling al
ready to begin with. There is but little
of the card playing dancing a d
drinking so common to many of our
churches There is great harmony
prevailing in our churches. The best
of feeling exists between pastors. In
deed everything points to great meet
ing. How | do hope and pray that
we may not be disappointed.
I am heartily grateful to the 'work
ing force for copy of the Daily. Be
sure to give the typos my love. They
have had worlds of trouble with my
chirography in the past, and | heartily
congratulate them ON my possession of
a type writer. Last year we built
beautiful church here, and paid for it.
Every thing was paid in full at Con
ference The church expended over
50, 600 last year; 1870 were added to the
roll, and net gain of II. This year
they advanced the salary 5000. making
it $l4O0 The collections ordered by
the Annual Conference on this charge
an cunt 10 $432, and have spent three
days in private way soliciting the
amount, and have an excess of over $50.
Others will yet contribute tell these
things, not that they are of SO much
importance over there, but there be
brethren who will be glad to know
that have not lost any of my zeal for
the temporalities of the church.
By the way: | see notice in your
paper that Caroline had Music Glass
in Dallas. 1t was mistake. She has
a Studio in Dallas, and teaches Elk
preston. She sustained lady friend
who is a music teacher with four read
ing. Her pupils in the School of Elk
preston are rendering delightful pro
gam in Dallas tonight while | am
writing these lines to YOU. She il
never SO happy as when an appreciative
audience is listening to her pupils,
and thereby testing her work. She has
been teacher-student for many years
her whole heart being wrapt in hel
work A pupil of the late Prof Merrill,
and graduate of the Boston Schoo
of Expression, she is as close student
of Expression and Literature as sht
has ever been.
We have had delightful family re-
union this fall. They have come from
the east and west and the south, anC
what gathering we have had
was a feast of love- When the separa
tioh came, the tears would come to nv
eyes. Some day ere long these meet
ings will be sobered and chastened by
the vacant chair. Bat we are all try
ing amid the temptations and trials o
life to live so that we will gather hom
i'll our Father house by and by.
Our Methodism in Texas has haC
great prosperity, temporal ant
spiritual, during the past year. Thu
drouth cut the crops short, but Their
was much money in the banks iron
the crops of the year before, and tn,
people are hopeful. Everything is ex
ceeding high but there is plenty o
} money with which to buy "OlC
Black Eyes is fat and saucy. Sh
has fine health, and is looking as spr,
as kitten. The Lord has wonderful
preserved us. We have been "a lon
time in the itineracy, and | Otter
$ tell her that we are more highl
favored than many of my betters
1 Mark the first person singular.
t Mr.. Editor, you have place, ant
. have attained position in the city @
Columbia and the country around yo
of which you may well be proud
When that noble boy of yours takes tn
work Of his gone-home father for CO.
and inevitable inspection. he will feel
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