Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25

connection. The old rickety and
dillapidated frame house had disap-
peared and a neat and commodius
modern churchly structure stood in
its stead by tho roadside. 1t is
framed inside and out with well
dressed lumber, we'll finished and
painted, equipped with good pulpit
and two eight-lamp swinging chan
delieurs Through the hard labour
the last few weeks of some of its
Jealous members, good comfortable
wooden bench seats were provided.
They of the model of those in the
Court House. Hand made. Out of
the remnants of the old house which
was torn down, a smaller and more
slightly little building was set up
across the road from the house OF
worship for a community school,
house.
The site of this church is on a high
but expansive level freak rolling
off gradually to the West, but to the
rear and North it breaks into an al
most abrupt decline which marks the
beginning of one lovely vale. This
drop in the contour of the land is
perhaps over d hundred feet. and is
suggestive when standing down in
this depression and looking upward
at the Rise on which the church ed
iffce is perched, of small mount, -
in keeping with the high ridge hill
ock just off from Jordan and over
looking Canaan, the Promised Land
flowing with milk and honey from
which this place takes its name.
The land close about is practically
denuded of timber, through logging
Operations and the storm, but hasn't
long enough for the oaks which are
springing up to have reached sizt
to furnish much shading and reliable
hitching trees These bushes have
been trimmed, however and will
soon shoot up into trees of girth anC
spread to meet that requisition. The
Igrave-y yard is about one of the
incest kept in the country. Its wei
fenced clear of weeds and grass
land the stones in capital condition
But enough of description of the
Iinanimate. We must get to that o
the ANIMATE; the people and their do
Iings. Bro. Pink Smith, who is {
veteran of assemblies, and a very con
sentative estimator, after consulting
some others, announced to US sever
hundred souls, as his approximation
for the throng's number.
| Just as we drove Up preaching
began. Our good friend, Rev. R. W
Brooks, was occupying the sacred
desk, and preaching with greater
vigor than marked his discources
here. He had missions as a theme anC
dealt with power on this the freest
Isubiect that an Ambassador of Christ
can elucidate from. be was con
siderate as to time holding only about
thirty minutes. Rev. A. I'll. Moormar
of Fruitdale, the pastor of Pisgah fol
this year, entered the pulpit and fol
Iabout forty minutes held the packed
house in rapt attention with very
Ispirituai sermon, marked for it,
lack of circumscribIng lines. The Ho
| ly Spirit was breathing through the
vocables of that sanity man those
few minutes and his auditors were
drinking in the words falling with
Christian Sweetness from his lips.
| After this dinner was served. \
most excellent repast; the usual vari
ETY. of fresh meats. breadstuffs, anC
cakes, pies, custards and cookies a
bundant. This HERALD representa-
tive did eat one enormous and much
relished meal then and there. Am al
most ashamed of it till yet, that ht
allowed his appetite to be SO aroused
by the good things, as to gormandizt
before such crowd of good folks
The temptation overcame oar scru
pies.
After dinner, yes after dinner
and so much of the day had passed
off so beautifully under the preach
ing of those two Cody men, both o.
whose sermons vibrated with broad
ness though not at the sacrifice at al
of Baptist consistency;-the the
congregation, which was a mixed one
credally, that got cooped up in the
house had to listen to one of the most
singing UNCONVENTIONAL diatribes
that could have been notwithstanding
to hear,-or else leave the room.
The misguided young man that
belched on, this squeaking was the
most rantankerous narrow sectarian
bigot our ears ever endured. God pi-
ty him and broaden his intellect.
OF course we are aware that when
we presume to indulge in criticism OF
the cloth, we run the chance to be
misunderstood, as the secular press
is accused of doing overmuch of this.
In this Instance we feel sure that at
least those who were present and
reasonable will appreciate that we
are telling things just as they oc-
Cured, without any sugar lting to
take the bitter off. That was the gen
eral impression made on the attend
ants irrespective of credal affiiia-
ton. Such ranting could not have
had the endorsement OF the coIserva-
tive element of the denomination
which this speaker represented. In
fact, one in a position to speak au-
/ thOritively, assures us that it didn t..
BigOted Sectarianlsm isn't Christian
| ity, on the contrary it hurts the
cause of Christ. Any Churchman can
hold uncompromisingly to his own
doctrinal views, without Haunting in
the face of the other persuasions, his
consignment of them to the eternal
flames. More thinking, less talking,
and a whole lot of praying, will help
this kind of minded men,.
A Criminal Attack.
on an inoffensive citizen is frequently
made in that apparently useless little
tube called the appendix " 1t s
generally the result of protracted
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