The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-23
THE BRANDON NEWS IHURspAY JUNE rs. 1910.

among those rights to be respected-yea,
demanded-is the right to be raised up
a Christian child, fortified for the dangers
on every side of his character,
at home or abroad. Who else is to do
this for the child but the pair that brought
him or her into this hard, cold, sinful
world?
Every father, every mother who heard
the young pastors sermon last Sunday
morning will do we'll to take on serious
thinking on this most valuable feature
of advice concerning the waywardness Of
youths.
Pastor Purcell announced last Sunday
Methodist church will begin Sunday morn
ing next, 10th, Rev. E. Kelly is expected
here that day to do the preaching for the
entire time. Meetings for prayer every
night this week was also announced We
must say that if good is to come of this,
or any protracted effort, the laity must
harness themselves, heart and soul, to
this work, and not look to the pulpit
man to do it all. 1t is the layman's bus.
mess. If he is not a disciple of Christ,
of course, he Isl excused. When Christ
selected his disciples he put them to work
with him. Did he not Christ taught,
the disciples worked. The pulpit man
teaches, the pew man works-if he is a
disciple He is, as said before, excused
if he is not disciple. Religious har-
ness gals whom it does not fit truthfully.
We will continue in this religious strain
TO mention that the sermon delivered Sun
day night by Pastor Purcell was a master
ly discourse, truthful, forceful to the
point, convincing and convicting. His
subject was the Wisdom of Soul Win
ming. He says in substance many would
consider it wise to amass wealth; many,
to do grand deeds to attract the attention
CT the world; to be at the head of great
enterprises and so en-; but the Scripture,
the best of all authority, holds that he
that winneth a soul is wise The wisdom
can be understood in the fact that honors.
emoluments, high stations and all earthly
acquisitions and preferments arc only for
time; while the winning of soul becomes
an affair of eternity. Instances and IL
Illustrations were related proving the truth
that it is wise to win souls from eternal
destruction. We cannot note here all the
good things the faithful preacher said
that night.
x-President-Col. Roosevelt has set
foot on American soil once more after
fifteen months in many foreign lands, in
Guiding the wilds of Africa where he and
his son Kermit, had their fill of hunt
ing wild and dangerous animals. AS he
passed through Egypt into the more civil
lied regions of Europe he had one cease
less round of receptions and hobnobbing
with the crowned heads. And finally
when he touched the shores of his native
land hundreds of thousands Of his fellow
Americans were there at the ship to re-
ceive "our own Roosevelt back with open
arms. Now, people, what is prophetic of
all this display over one mortal man in
100000 Of men? Mortal ken is at
fault. But in our opinion, the Almighty's
hand is in this thing. Not because it is
Roosevelt, but because there evidently is
material in the man adopted for the pres
ent to some purpose of His own as yet
hid from our vision. Well see in course
of time. Read of Moses, Daniel, Paul,
etc. aea
We understand from the papers that
the U. S. Government is proposing to test
aercplanes as war machines. The only
uses such flying apparatta can be put to
are to sky upon the enemies and to drop
liquid fire upon enemies ships, fortified
places, ard cities. Would not war be
''hell" sure enough, as Sherman calls war,
when such destructive engines become a
reality? An enemy in time of war-if
any with us-can fly over our homes
and drop highly explosive nitroglycerine
bombs on our roofs-and there all be!
If the Almighty wants an .awfully wicked
nation blotted cut in quick order, the
means by flying machines for the purpose
arc swiftly on the way Watch!
Personal friesds of Dr. D. McCallum of
Simpson county, now living with his sons
Duncan and William, at Weathersby, will
regret to learn that the old doctor was
stricken with paralysis on5the right side
last Friday. His condition is said to
be serious He is under care of loving
sons and daughters, and will be made as
comfortable as is possible. The doctor
is 70 years of age, and he told the writer
last Monday week that he was looking
forward with pleasure to a visit about
July 1st, to his sisters and families in
North Carolina.
Gov Gillette, of California, certainly
has grit for an official James Jefries,
a white man, and Jack Johnson, negro,
and at the present, the champion fighter
Of the counry proposed to have pugilis-
tic encounter in Sacramento on July 4.
Contending, for the final possession of
the Fighters belt."n The good governor
has said may" to the proposed bout-even
after preparations for the exciting event
had been nearly completed, but he stood
firm, amid all the hubbub created by
his ''nay." And now California is aban-
doned and Nevada territory is sought for
the big try. If the governor had not in
terfered and boldly stopped the fight in
his state, California might have lost the
Panama Canal Fair for 1918, and evil
IDENTIFY Gov. Gillette knew that fact.
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