The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-25

were received by letter and by baptism
and the church membership generally
was revived spiritually, and it is hoped
that greater interest in religious duties
will be taken by the saints than has
heretofore been the case. A church as
a body should travel along ton an up
| grade the same as a single individual
| Christian; otherwise protracted effort
is a failure pure and simple, and time
and money wasted There were no SER
vices Saturday as rest was much needed !;
but on Sunday morning Pastor Allen
preached noble practical sermon frought
with deep feeling and earnestness. IN
the afternoon the noble band of B. Y.
p. US had their regular meeting which
was we'll attended and manifested great
interest. This is a growing and working
organization destined TO accomplish much
lasting good among the young people
of the community.
On Sunday night the ordinance of bap-
tism was solemnly administered by the
pastor to young converts, one to be
baptized on next Sunday.
Last Sunday was Pastor Purcell's day
at Florence, but commencing his pro-
tracted meeting at Plain the day was
handed over to the Baptists to finish up
the work of the late revival. The coming
Sunday, 2Sth, will be Baptist day and
the regular services will be held, Rev.
w. S. Allen, the pastor, to do the preach
ing.
Robert Laird, Esq, our big mill man,
has unloaded lots of good brick ON to
the lot on which Prof Tavlor's nice resi-
dence was burned last winter. with a
view to building for himself an elegant
town home. We certainly rejoice to have
him and his family move in and be one
of our towns citizens His children will
have the facilities and all other advan-
tages Of fine school,
From all reports we ;.ather the school
here has fine prospects for greater open
, ing this fall than ever before The
school will have its opening day Sept.
9th, and every body is earnestly invited
to be present There will be some inter
esting exercises which these present will
certainly enjoy. Be sure that you boy
and girl are on hand the first day.
The readers of daily papers read so
much of crimes, that varied assortment
! of crimes, that occur all over the EARTH
and especially in our America, that they
scarcely notice the Nervousness of the of
fences. But the man who reads but
little is shocked beyond measure when he
hears or reads of the many deeds COM
mitted in robbing, burning, lynching and
| murder, ETC., here and there The i'm
preston produced on such readers is that
the world is growing from bad to worse
But all should remember that pood deeds
are being performed every day but are
never put in print. And such good acts
in every line of endeaver more than off
set the evils of meanness DONE If more
honest and earnest efforts were put forth
by the believers in the religion of Jesus
Christ everywhere, the "works of Satan"
will in good time be destroyed. Christ
says He came to destroy the works of
Satan;" but owing to the diIatoriness
indifference and self-centerness of
His supposed friends and co-workers, the
process of destruction of the DEVILS works
is unavoidably tardy. Too much passive
ness prevails when aggressiveness should
be in positive order.
Last Friday was cleanup" day in our
neighbor city Jackson. "clean up days oc-
cur in many cities of the land where
civic pride and demands for sanitation
and ornamentation prevail. Cities need
not be the only territories for such good
works. Towns and villages contain hui
mans as well as cities. Villages and
/ towns with their humanity do have, or
can have, as much pride and demands
| for health and ornamentation as a 10000
population city And if small towns de-
sire growing population there must be
evidences of interest in the welfare of
the town. A beautiful, healthy locality
attracts to itself. A town with souchy
ways, disordered premises rotting fences,
vacant lots weedy and trashy, bitches
trashed up to top, mosquitoed ponds, scant
sidewalks, mud-holes-alI tend to keep
respectable people away and invite bugs,
mosquitoes, flies and malaria to be part
ners in operating the town affairs.
Out in the northwest in the state Of
Washington, large 14-room house :
and a halfpistories high has just been
built entirely from single fir tree,A a
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