The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17

certainly feel that an apoiogy is Hue the Anxious. Waiting public for my tneg1ectfng to furnish the usual enter tt9tnnnent last Sunday. feel that all lthe people ere dissppointsd by the fsii- lure, For think as many a one man lout of several hundred kindly told me that after looking through the paper the did not notice whether there was anything In 1t from me or not. Such funiversnl interest in my "effusions" aB lenough to make me top heavy.
 If we can only discover it.. there. 10, accidents and twins. and. think ho 10 . mighty poor newspaper correspondent who hasn't imagination enough to dis cover, or invent, or manufacture, (though perhaps this last word fs get-- tting to be 50 prominent in amend sment' literature 1t is we'll to use it with great and judicial dfscretion, . 1eason for one poor lapse of duty.
 The truth of the matter is, was at tthe Association, and 1t stands to reason d could not. at the same tinfe., Do atand- pne by the printer dictating from my
 If that reason h not satisfactory. stand ready to give any other that lwaII be. can put my hand to almost ianything thet will give satisfaction. IBut will do better than that; d my l9pece was left blank last Sunday I iwfll now occupy ft with . balance moro Ito make up for lost time.
 don't go to tho Association for lnothing. and the dinner on the ground" but to absorb the good, which, like the water that nows from springs lthat never go dry. continually evapor- Ates or flows from the brethren. I ret luew thoughts, new inspira tions and inew habits. One of these new habits t0f my associationAl brethren is to say Ia great deal in . few words. I had lfallen into the reprehensible habit of tthing. and the brethren warned me that while such Is delightfully enter taining. 1t is going into "inocuous des- iuetude." like the OK cart. gambling tand persimmon beer, and that must ilearn to s'cut it short" like the other bbrethren. It goes against the grain, In my old age. to change my habits and strength and the Lord spares my life" to- attend our next annual con- ivocation. I'll have myself trained to the rsveni. vidi. vici' kind of speech, even to the approal of the up to date wis Iting brethren" To those unacquaint- say that an Association is simply a union of the Baptist churches of given territory for benevolent effort. It Is not political organization, by any means. however. much a fire view zeal may attempt to interpret it.
 We came out from the Primitive Bap- tists because those deluded people be- 1ieved (and believe) that the Lord has. no pressing need for money with which to save the poor. naked, uneducated brethren. Those same deluded people argue that as the Lord built the world. the sun and the stars, without calling, on man to help Him. that He isn't like- 1y to call on him for little money to aid Him in any of His enterprises.
 Because we took issue on those prop- ositions, they withdrew" from us.
 Since the separation we spass and re- pass" but the bouquets which we mu-. fually exchange have not the aroma Of brotherly love that should character aze them.
 We count them in the great Baptist brotherhood. but they enumerate us-- Pin Babylon"
 They are Interested in ciaan feet: