Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-09-14
The Culpepper Meetings.

rnous that he has preached since the KeViVa Star'eu m
was How much owest thou In part the speaker sad Inc oeal
svatem right or wrong here to stay doubt It's "lsuo" ~
fri whether has good than harm nave nea ,n
men saw that it good policy not to get out OF oeDl Inc
man or woman who deprayed the debt point oepaveo a
som GREAT debt maker Exravaeance great oeot naAe
has come easy and goes The gamblers money Has III w
Some of the banks the have agreed to not
money On automobiles Many has mortased MS salary d
ased his farm just automobile Young men want 10
- d clothes inst because young do and young LADIES
to wear GOOD clothes just other young ladies DO lie
caused ripple laughter 90 thru his audience "hn ne ou
snposed case clothes that people wear saying dill sos
home where belong What would happen he them tod Oh nu
rus incident showing the desire mtae among negroes certain
rich negro woman who her husband bought her veil that
so the floor and this veil church and walked down
A ~ ono Sunday morning Sunday morning negro
woman in the town with veil too man is honest ne
will pay at his debts
r preacher then told Of how many people avoid paying
their honest debts by taking advantage Of the bankrupt act and the
homestead law He are aae to give man chance
IN nav his debts and intended for good A said that the bank
n law never paid Both these laws arc taken advan
ee Of No man smoke chew tobacco and wear fine eohe
If a il asking his creditor pay them They did not need bai
pf law or law in this country few years ago He then
gave soe good the who contemplating gong into ous
ness He said you GONE live in this country and want to build
an GOOD business you up reputation for paying debts
stretch YOUR beyond where see your way out
The sneaker illustrated this by saying some mems business meth
To nded him of an old turkey trying about bushe
and half of eggs She would sit in part OF them for while then
anorer part would finally end with adding the entire lot
Many man trying 20 mule farm when ne needs to plough
in old Beck you live right with your fellow men, you
want to live right your God BE HONEST Any man OF principal
will nav his debts hundred parts 10 me want IS
parts of them and to pay my debts ana WI" doe tne
other five parts the aces and take my chances lie hen tod
Of the advice that his gave him when he first started out on
rt AZ preacher Said my father said son you going Off,
don't know whether you preach not don't think they will have
Won hit don't want you circuit debt Doctors don't usual
TNant
and have the mony your pocket FOR it. He then said that
the matter going debt the failure OF many preacher re-
li6on is debt payer from start to finish
then spoke of the habit many women nave o ruhln up
debts in the family and they much to blame for the
men never taught thing but finance and many instances
thew never really know how their husbands business ahos "o
das very little money They wise they ought
to be Many husbands asked for little by their wives
dive 50 edngy that they discouraged ask The
then told of the arrangement he made with his wife shortly
% thew started housekeeping he decided give his
wife cents out every and then after thinking the matter
he decided to give her other and got the best it.
We will never general revival this country unless 1t
based upon honesty living in this country the
man that buy his groceries and gano on creot
make crop when his cotton gathered ne comes town ana
M his cotton for cash goes around where else to buy
his goods ought stand by the friend that stood dy you Inc
preacher said that running boarding mouse buying e
M from one butcher she could account then
to another and finally pulling up and leaving the
town to avoid paving her just debts than the fellow who
beat bill by placing brick in his trunk to make the anoau
think it was full of clothes and other things
Mr. Culpepper said that preaching for popularity
he would fight shy such preaching as he was doing He then pro
ced to rap person who avoids paying his doctors BILL tie
that when you got hunted was the but
usually getting well he the last man that you PAID he SAD
+ the meanest who would read the news OF
5a and wouldn't be honest with money you
wouldn't be honest principle wouldn't use temporal things
right YOU wouldn't spiritual things right Nearly all doctors ae
mnted to be scepc They pacn phyc and yet sometimes
thew cant Most people have quandered time and opporun
iy enough to be out of debt
The speaker then spoke social moral debts and the
we owe to He then told about his being born georgia
He ad that if he enemy in Georgia that he wouldn't know
where TO DO to find said that his great desire to see thou
. ands of people converted
What do families? What do we owe to our Ia
es What mothe The speaker then closed with
appeal to each individual concder what they owed
- tlr fellow man God and their obligations