Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1913-03-20

Jefferson, Texas, Feb. %, 'l3
Editors Rustler:-This will be
about the great artesian well that
spoke Of In my first letter to
you, which supplies the city Of
Jefferson with water and which
has some interesting history con-
nected with it and suggests some
important things to my mind.
This well was given TO the city
aud twelve hundred and fifty
dollars given to the schools by
wv. B. Ward for voting out the
saloons. So Jefferson has no
saloons, good recommendation
for any town, city or country,
fOr tie buafRess OF the saloon is
to make drunkards of the child.
rem of men, cause trouble, sOr.
row and want in the households,
destroy bodies and minds and
swell the ranks in the jails and
penitentiaries, and fill hell with
lost souls, For a drunkard can
not inherit the Kingdom Of
God. Cor. 6:l0.
Let the name OF the g;ver of
this well, this humanity loving,
God loving and honoiing man,
be written high on the walls of
fame and in the Lambs Book OF
Life.
0, what great blessing it
would be il all the cities and
towns of this world would ex
change their saloons for we'll
like this. The people Of Jeffer-
soa will never thirst for want of
water to Quench their thirstor
cleanse. and give them temporal
life. So the people of God will
never never thirst for spiritual
water to quench their spiritual
thirst and give them spiritual
life and blessings. st. John Ala
The water OF this great we'll
PUSHES up by the centrifugal
force of the earth at the rate Of
sixty five thousand gallons per
day, overrunning it's great tank
pouring out Of the iron pipe a
stream as large as your arm, SO
clear that in the sunshine it
gEstens like liquid silver, while
a thousand silverli like bubbles
dance on the surface of the water
where it falls, and, as it ripples
and winds its way into the river,
it is so clear that it reflects it's
every wave and motion like the
finest mirror. cannot give the
analytic composition of this
water, which are many, but can
say briefly that it his gco],
healthy effect on the human sys-
tenn. | had rather have this
we'll for monument than any
and all the marble and granite
monuments ever erected, and |
had rather have my name writ
ten in the Lambs Book of Life
which entities me and all those
whose names are written there
to all the heavenly life, glory and
blessing OF God in Heaven and
moreover to the glory and bless
ing of God of which no eye hath
seen nor ear hath heard than TO
have all the wells and all the
riches of the world.
AS | stand by this we'll with
my hand on the faucet, the turn
of which brings this pure water
to my lips and quenches my
thirst, gives me temporal life
and cleanses my body, by prayer
l draw living water from the well
of spiritual life which is of the
spirit of Christ in me that cleasn-
ses my heart and fills it to over
flowing with heavenly life, love
and glory, like the great well
overtiowing it's great reservoir.
Oh, We inhabitants of this
world, you who are born OF the
spirit and drink of the wells OF
the water of life aud salvation of
the Spirit of Christ in you, ais
We blessed Of the living God, re-
joice with me because your names
are written in the Lambs Book
! ofLife. Yours truly,
X. T. Minor.
in Clifton Hill MOI Rustler.