The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-12-12
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Rev. T. j. Duncan Writes an Interest
ing Letter From Ennis.
Ennis, Texas. Dec. 2. 100

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Ennis, Texas. Dec. 2, 1902.
To the Herald The Conference,
years come and GO at a rapid rat
these times. Our North West Texa
Conference is now thing of the past
until the year 1908. We met Nov. 10
in Temple, Texas. The time wa
short. The work done was far reach
ing The appointments were as salts
factory as any man could have made
them. Sometimes the best of us get 8
disappointment. [ am returned for
my third year In Ennis. ! am suited,
BLACK Eyes is suited. The people
to whom we are returned--weil. lei
that pass
/ We have spent two delightful years
in this charge. Yet they have been
years of hard work. The first year we
had the new church enterprise on
hand. That took great deal of my
time and some of the peoples money.
The revival was good one. Without
it we could never have secured the
church. The last year was one of
great activity. The saloon business
in this county had grown intolerable.
The whiskey power overshadOwed
almost everything. Our first step was
10 have George Stuart in March. He
did his work well. His Stump
Digger, an unanswerable argument
against the Liquor Traffic, was
delivered to three thousand men in
Ennis. He delivered it later in Waxa
hachle, the county Site These, with
place on the Houston and Texas
Central Railroad, were the only places
in the county where liquor was sold.
The sight OF towns with 1000
people and no whisKey for sale was
somthing that most people seemed to
NUMBER among the impossible things.
We have demonstrated the feast billty
Of such sight. There were IA saloons
in this city. They were deep dyed in
wlessness. They did not regard God
or man. The violations OF the Sunday
law, and the minor law were daily.
They are slam shut. Driving along
the street we see the same buildings
being occupied with furniture, gro
ceries, gents furnishing goods, and
many other valuable branches of trade.
The prison is empty. There have been
but few arrests of any character
is unknown among us, save
a few men who have banded themselves
together to dare public opinion with a
cold storage arrangement where they
keep their liquor stored for their own
use. You could not buy drink of it
for love or money. There was one In
but the Court is in session
and the grand jury organized, and the |
keeper has notified the depositors of |
to come and get their whiskey |
away. He goes, so 1t is said. to THE
Territory.
This has been year Of great pros
perity in our church in Texas. The
ield is u great one in the first place.
Then we have noble baud of unseltish
men who are ready for the hardest
places and willing to spend their ali
or the advancement of the Kingdom
" God
have been most deeply interested
eader OF the Herald of iate in fact
or 20 years. The fights you make for
rood neighborhood will tell. The
,eople want the right thing. They
re sometimes hampered for season.
nut in the long run they will settle
own on the right thing.
Our agricultural affairs have been
n questionable shape for whole
ear. The cotton did NOT promise over
alf crop in the first place. The late
aims have made the gathering Of
hat amount practically impossible.
he rains are said to be a guarantee
lmost Of good crop for the coming
ear. II that be true then Texas will
lsKe the stride Of all her history
ward prosperity.
Lots OF love to all the good people of
~ old district, and station.
j. T. DUNCAN.