The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-12-04

There we met our young friel d ane
old acquaintance, Mr.. Luther Chap
pei, who was raised in Number -Four
of Obion county, and who is clerk
ing for DR.. A. p. Smith, at Ridg1ey
and he recommended us and treated
us nicely. We feel under many OBJ.
legations to him for his services.
We took his subscription for The
Commercial, and just as we were
ready to leave we espied another
old friend and neighbor, Rev. ]. E.
Jones, who was preparing to move
to his circuit at Ralston, We took
his subscription and that of Mr..
Foster, who is wide-a wake, hust-
ling farmer and with whom we
spent the night. Then we pulled
for the other shore and made it
home just at shutdown on Saturday
night, While on the lake we were
told by gentleman who lives there
that most people who visit the lake
at this time of year are invalids or
bordering on invalidism, and that
their Affections were a good deal
like that of stump sucking horse,
only they sucked bottle or Jug ins
stead of a stump. He said he often
recognized leading AMI influential
so-called christians from various
parts of the country actually taking
the lead but it made no difference,
it was away from home you know.
We are intimately acquainted with
a christian man of Number -Four
who went to a hotel in Nashville
and put up and after eating wanted
drink of water. He was told by
the clerk to go just through a door
and he would find it and when he
did so found he was in a saloon.
He came back and asked if he
could not get water without going
into a saloon, and when told be
could not, said, LET me settle my
bill and | will hunt hotel that has
such accommodations" While he
was settling another man sitting
in the Office, who heard the CONVEX
sation. said, Il want to settle up
too and go where l dan drink water
without having to 60 into a saloon
to get it." O, Lord, give us more
christians like these men; chris
tians that will stand up for God
and for the leading principles Of
christianity. We know a merchant
in Rives who will not buy goods of
any wholesale merchant who adver-
tises whiskey for sale in his cata-
logues, or who handles whiskey by
the wholesale, and if every christian
had the nerve, the backbone, the
honor and sufficiency of religion
to stand up for God at all times and
under all such circumstances, the
whiskey fight would soon be ended
and the world would be benefited,
humanity elevated and God glori-
fed. We recently met young
girl of a eighboring little
own who said, l have just been
to get some magazines from the
literary club, and as l looked l read
in big letters on the back of one of
them, One. quart free. 4" A wills
key advertisement going right into
a home of young girls and boys.
0 Lord, pity and deliver us from
the devil and his imps. Now do
not think it asking too much to ask 1
some one IN every literary club in
the county to introduce a resolution
to boy every magazine or news
paper or journal of any kind carry
ing a whiskey advertisement. Who
will act for God and for humanity S
first?
Have we the right to suggest 10
the Union City Business College S
the Importance of teaching their pu-
pills an occasional lesson in morals
and manners? Morality and man :
ners 60 hand in hand in every occu- t
patton in the world and there is no I
profession SO badly in need of a
supply as that of the telegraph OPP
orator. I
Will our school directors never {
earn the Importance of investigat-
ing the moral qualifications of a ,
as well as the mental? The :
immoral influences are so much t
more easily caught up by the pupil