The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
CULPEPPER RESENTS
 ENDLESS CHAIN WRITING

family altar I don't think Bro. Male 1ory would let me on tue ticket with were he to near of any idiotic perfofnh- ance of prayer for an opponent And I wouldn't blame him.
 uf the truth were known I believe ai arG ,bs ncosy likes me Dsttsf anns sn yillifying the Democratic party like
 Now. the he @ good mother who included her little Johnnie may escape the oclic in fruit season." touches me in a tender place. I'm going. to do better re a ana nsap,s TsnsI n about little Johnnie in prayer I've broken the chain and written her very kind and sympathetic letter and attacked with that III that boys arc heir to when too much stuffed. to give him Smiley's Relief in large doses. days and every druggist carried 1t in
 It's better than prayer
 taRes the r@s ro@nf of the aS 'ss sash e!'er sh.s
 Sometimes I think, may be. we strain ourselves in unnecessary prayer. We
 ss aad snd Soud Sd hSs: Ss af G f. ts: B: things came for we're really not look. :, Ny. old friend. Rifle. who had a neg
 
 once told me of some great and won derfui thing he had done (which im- medlately escaped his memory). Not tion the commendable matter to him. did it."
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 His random talk reminds me that we ought 10 be very careful in prayer, so as not to be surprised If some flfttie irp xxs<, uc1r fAt. uh hnsx1A
 And, then, I don't think we ought to pray for rain If the wind is in the wrong direction l think it is useless eur and I don't think the reformation of the Democratic party is possible through prayer-it's too far gone. l.. It looks like prayer will have to be present lameness, SO he can take up the defense of the party against the charges and thrusts of Brother Conner. He ought ''to shoot. Luke. or give up the gun"
 When I get over the wear and tear of these endless chain" petitions and put on my war paint I'll meet Brother Conner and challenge his right to speak
 The Campellites are splendid. people and weary you with the scriptures They carry New Testaments in the pis- to1 pocket (which is much better than carrying pistoL)
 In community where nobody could escape. the nlBkeFS LOOK 10 (dmDeki- nigger talked scrlpture." They called 1t "Sputing' and with a Iaudable con- slstency. no nigger was allowed the black buck. who had been squeiched. hastened to be baptized. As he came out of the water splutting and pufffng and blowing, he sang out Now. can
 I think Brother Conner should not "Spute" till he has the Paui-like cour- age to join the Populists.
 But this letter that I'm coming tn@ gets next to me" I hardly think tha "chain" will be continued through me. weakest link" I'm afraid things ara going to happen in the usual way. for I can't pray with any confidence, in such a matter. of her own. writes me that the stork is going to visit her neighbours house pretty soon: that they are good people but a little hard-pressed for money (having been to many church suppers etc, etc) and somewhat Respondent that cotton hasn't touched 15-cents, besides only the usual preparation, and. some how. they've begun to fear ''doubIa blessing, and she wants me to pray that there may be but one, and then write to ten other good men and they to as many more" ad infinitum. to pray for the something, so that in q short while all the good men in Chris- tendon will be blowing tn' their pe- titions for a limitation of blessing to this good woman's neighborsi
 Well, that chain Is broken good at the start.
 I will not interfere Tn the matter. by petition or otherwise. There's no use. For, I believe of all the impracti- cable efforts of faith, I would enter up- on that one with a fuller confidence of uncertainty.
 Now, in all these matters of "end- less chain, application l beg to be ex- eused-unless I'm paid for time and to pray for the heather in the ''end- less" way at so much an hour in work time, and a little less when I'm rest ing. and at nominal sum if it comes at meal times when I can interline it with the usual blessing"
 I won't waste time on wardfng off anticipated. colic
 To the girl who wanted to weld me into a chain" to get the Lord to make her sweetheart bring more candy and better candy, and get him to indulge in a more liberal use of Sozodont," | say with all kindness-I can't do 1t.
 I will not trouble Providence with any petition of success for Brother Blank.
 of the whiskey men are clandestine< ly for him, the Anti-Salooners are go- ing to be surprised at their prayerful
 But in the matter of warding of double blessings. my inclination to de- cline efforts is the strongest of all.
 J. Culpepper.