The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-28
CALEDONIA NOTES
]. D. ThIxTON

51USS OI AOls AOu / hAON OI care
about the music. and don't come
under the influence" of Bro. A g
song service" at all. That is nothing
against the service, of course, but
when a potato is three-fourths rotten
you might throw it away when you
have plenty of sound ones
They say it starts young people
into the service of the Master. l see
quite number who were started
that way. A drunken man reeled up
to the great preacher on a street of
London saying, Brother (hic) Spur
geon, | am (hic) one of your con-
verts." The reply was, You look
like some of my work It is quite
evident that the Lord had nothing
to do with it." Yes, we have too
many that started wrong.
One suggests that if we will go
oftener, and in a proper frame of
mind, our opinion will change. IN
the same way could L not get used to
the saloon, the gambling den, or the
| house of prostitution?
The very fact that a Sunday picnic
empties every church for miles
around is enough to condemn it, even
when it has ''an appearance of god
illness" If you will open your eyes
you will see that people are not fall
ing over each other trying to get to
anything that has Jesus in it.
Now while we contend that the
principle (not the thing) is wrong,
We admit that its relative Importance
is small. When we daily violate
nine commands of the decalogue,
, the other Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy" does not seem
so important.
When We reach the point in our
moral and spiritual growth where a
man can serve God even at a mon
etary loss; when fbabes in Christ
are all weaned from the whisky bot
tie; when a man can make an hon
est settlement with another that is
ignorant; when the church members s
conversation is not spiced with bias
phemy; when we can sing God s
praise with spirit and understand
ing" when cases of negro concu-
binage go farther than to the grand
jury; when people quit joining" the
church to insure their souls against
the fire of hell, and incidentally, quit
trying to beat the company out of
the payment of premiums due on that
insurance, we may, possibly, change
the day for our picnics-and that is
what we contend for, brother.
Mr.. z. P. Goolsby of the Border
Springs community is having his
dwelling house newly painted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Judson Kolb, of Ok
lahoma, who are visiting relatives
near here, were at Unity church sast
Sunday.
Mrs Cora Goolsby and children re-
/ turned to their home in West Point
last Thursday after a weeks visit
with relatives east of town. Her
father and mother accompanied her
home.
Mr.. S. l. Swanzy, Of Columbus, Wis
tied home folks on Sunday, 18th inst.
Miss Fleet West and Mr. Morgan Van
Diver spent the same day very pleas
antly at the home of w. C. Jernigan,
and Mr.. W. c. Dodson and family Wis
tied Mr.. Robert Smith on same date.
New Salem school closed a very
profitable session on the 18th. Flat
Wood school, taught by Miss Beu1ah
Smith, will close June with picnic
Bro. Galceran is still quite sick
His mother. of Sturgis, Miss, is with
him.
Mr.. L. c. West made a business
trip to the Queen City on Wednesday
of last week.
Mr.. S. l.. Darnel1 and family have
returned from Memphis.
We are glad to say that Mrs. A. l..
Stanley's health is slowly improving.
We are sorry to say that our
neighbor, w H. CASTOR, sprained his
ankle very badly last Sunday by
jumping over a fence while trying to
kill a snake. Moral: Don't kill
snakes-on Sunday.
We were impressed with some of
the good things said by Dispatch cor
respondents last week-notably
Venice, Mayhewan and Johnnie. 1t
seems to me that The Dispatch gets
better each week. In this connection
we would thank Dan for explaining
what "A" had been doing 1--WE had
wondered) but we fear that we were
.sthe devil'' that he was fighting
with fire."
Speaking of devils, the printers
devil" made US say last week DIR.
BrazIes' when we wrote DIR.
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