Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-03

chievous as boy could possibly be-
and did not stand very high with
my teacher. So as the goody-goody
boy was reciting forty or fifty YER
ses of the New Testament from
memory to our teacher every Sun
day l decided to recite more verses
the next Sunday than anybody and
try to reinstate myself in the good
graces of my teacher. So all the
next week while l was plowing corn
carried my testament in my pocket
and l commenced with In those days
came John the Baptist preaching in
the wilderness Judea,' and when 1
was called on to recite my verses
l commenced and went on and on
and my teacher commenced to sweat.
You see he was afraid he would be
late to dinner, but l went on and on.
ing, but l went Gathering on till
had recited 365 verses and then
looked up to receive the commenda-
ton of my teacher, but instead he
at me and said You think you are
smart, don't you And l said Yes
SIR but that was all he said. He
never patted me on the back and
said You are a good boy as he
was in the habit of doing with the
other boy. So l went home sadder
and wiser boy but l hunted up the
goody-goody boy the next week and
gave him a good licking. But they
made preacher out of him, but
have never been able to get chance
to preach till tonight.
But this should be warning to
Sunday school teachers. Don't show
er all your smiles and loving pats
on the good boys, but pet and en-
courage the naughty boys as well
as the good. Had / received proper
encouragement l might have been a
noted preacher like Brother Ortop.
Instead l am only mayor OF Rocky
Ford
But have forgotten my subject
Mrs. Lewis what is my subject? Oh
yes. Well l am sure a church that
has raised the money to pay off a
mortgage of S6,760 is bound to sue
coed. Our future is assured if We
will only be loyal to God, to our
preacher, our church and to each
other. and let us be cheerful and
smiling Christians. Whenever I
pass Lewis Bros. & Johnson's store
I in m oh f,,I
A. S. Johnson. He is always smiling
at church, at the store or at a prize
fight. l always like to meet him.
try to be something of a smiler my
self. Now in conclusion we all have
to come back to the raising of mon
ey to pay our mortgage. So many
many have thrown boquets at Bro
ther Orton that | want to mention
few others so brother Orton won't
become too vain.
We don't want to detract from
what has been said about Brother
Orton for he deserves it all and
more but | think he was not the only
pebble on the beach There was
was Brother. Burris, Brother Nelson.
Brother Stout and Brother Long.
and many others who worked faith
fully and helped wonderfully to make
this campaign successful and in my
opinion Brother Frank Green and
Brother Monkman, who paid their
subscriptions in cash when the church
owed them more than their subscrip-
tions amounted to, should be remem-
bered forever and a day by all Meth
odists. As the hour is getting late.
just word to the boys and 1 am
Gone. l remember when | was a
hoy back in Indiana on the banks of
the st. Mary's river | used to slip
off and go swimming on Sunday and
my father was a stern man who be-
lieved that if you spared the rod
you would spoil the boy And when
ever he found | had been swimming
on Sunday, his punishment was Sc
we're although my mother would al
ways plead with him not to be too
severe. God bless the memory of
my father and mother"
Then the most impressive part
of the evenings program took place
Mrs. A. g. Conner, as the oldest
charter member of the church,
presented the cancelled mortgage
to Wayne Thurlow, the youngest
member of the church, saying:
GAS the oldest charter member
of this church, L present to the
youngest member this mortgage,