The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-04
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REPR,NTINa ALABAMA
PORTS.

Editor The Advertiser:
 The Legislature has passed very carefully guarded act concerning the reprintang of the Alabama Reports from Minor to the eightaeth volume. ninety eight volumes in all, which comprise all the rare volumes. sA
 It is unouestionable that the reports are getting very scarce, and that the citizens of the State do not have and can not get access to the same; it is. said that there Is not full set in three-quarters of the counties of the State; and yet. these decisions often have the force and effect of statutes.
 Relief has been sought for this and other matters arising from the laws be- ing out of print for some years, and 1t is undeniable that something ought to be done, and no other offer has been made cheaper or better than that contained in the act.
 The entire act is discretionary with the Governor, and he will certainly exercise this discretion for the best interest of the State. If our citizens are to comply with the law they should be able to pro- cure the same at a reasonable cost, and this cannot now be done. Citizen.
 Culpepper's Sunday Cogitations.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 I've fallen into the old way of desecrat- Ing the Sabbath to write to you. I don't orators are doing. I only know that the places in the Sanctuary which once knew them, know them no more. There ought to be committee or something to inves- tigate this neglect of the Sanctuary. In our neighborhood 1t isn't fear of the con- trtbution box that empties the seat room" of the churches for we've nearly inc fhA I,nT0'a trAQaIlrV We tried once in our church and the brother who ''carried the hat complained that the collection wasn't sufficient to pay the when the people all seemed anxious for Sunday to come so that they could ''go up to the house of the Lord and worship but nowadays dog fight, a horse race or ball game is more attractive than the best preacher. Something's wrong. know we are getting to be pretty strenuous people six days in the week that public worship doesn't seem to fur nish. We've gotten in such a way of bottling up our religion (so 1t can't es- capel through the week that. may be so, little while on Sunday. Some pious man ought to invent device for easy uncork- ing so that the religious church members. at least, will once more be induced to en- joy ''the droppings of the Sanctuary. ' It's serious matter, when you think of It. Lots of good "amen corner" old fel- lows are not exemplary in church going and they are falling into the bad mouth has begun to preach. q believe that fel- low will do almost anything.) An, there s a man for you. If all the Governors would follow suit and take the Pulpit of Sundays and preach against the popular ugly things it would, at least, be Ian as surance most dear" Over in Georgia. at one of the State Farms late Sunday service was varied by the beating of a young white woman. It wasn't exactly a Macbeth-McDuff Hay on." The Doctor held her pulse whale the Warden laid on." It is presumed that Georgia has become very conservative about lynching. But all you fellows who steer public opin- ion ought to train the people back to the meeting house. of course. fellow like mind the baby" for. in my old age and triningness. I've developed Into a splendid nurse. Some people are so prone to mis- understand what I say and write that hwet nurse" hardly think I could mi the bill" in that line. Ild rather ''nuss" than wash my necF' for a poor sermon. Of late, though we've been having first class sermons and we are growing in grace and the knowledge of the Lord" We've put our foot down" on Sunday Picnics and dinner on the ground has fallen into "innocuous desuetude' with us. There is a great deal of vanity and vexation of spirit'' in these danner-on- the ground meetings. 6eSluoSI yOu Ildu as well be singing psalms to dead horse as urging a sinner to flee the wrath to come" on a full stomach. He won't do 1t | and therefore it is useless to have after | noon service.
 I am not a metaphysician and don't know the why's of 1t, but full stomach, | like the carnal heart,is mot subject to the law of God neither, indeed, can be" Bro. Rockefeller ought to be mighty re- hgious for they tell me he has one of | these abstemious stomachs, perfectly compatible with plety, and it's perfect | indicator of his devout moods. Sometimes, 1 wish he were less liberal in his dona- tlons to the Lord and, may be, the price of oil wouldn't advance. If he had lived | in the time of the foolish virgins" we might have had a different story about | oil. l know he Is an exemplary fellow | for so many of our preachers have made me feel mean because I do not give" as much as he does. l believe it's wrong in preachers to humiliate us in the meet ing-house with these invidiOus compari- sons They ought not to do it. They ought not to expect me to give million
 or so every time Bro. Rockefeller does
 Most all my brethren down this way are
 of the same opinion. We need our money
 to buy the prescribed school books
 But, as its Sunday don't want to stray
 into forbidden subjects and as education
 is getting so mixed up with the solu.
 ton of the negro problem I had