Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
DICTATES DEATH
LETTER, THEN
TAXES POISON
Preacher Tries to End His Life
After Failing "to Find
True Friend"
Continued From Page I.

saw his shadow through the paper
and knocked il out OF his hands
The letter to his wife and children
follows
Dear Wife and Children; / shall
soon leave as ! could not bear the
thoughts of mentioning this to you
all before | left this morning. ! want
TO express as never before my very
great and deep love for you all; in
fact, IT Is Ike the angry surging
waves of a Mighty Ocean. We have
had many a hard struggle together;
met satan on many battlefield and
words can not express to you my
very deep appreciation of your faith
fulness and loyalty to me.
Dear Children: / hope that you
all will never take up with the evils
Of this city or any other; but live
an honorable life, make great and
good men, and be of service to your
day and generation. And Horace. as
you are the oldest of the children, !
want you to set an example that the
other children can well afford to pat
tern after YOU
Dear Wife: AS have never writ
ten a letter of this kind before | con-
fess TO you that / am at great loss
u kUON now 10 worn II, as L want
To express to you my very deep re-
srets because my financial conditions
would never suffer me to do by you
as my heart desired to; and | trust
and pray that there is a brighter and
better day for you ALL ! will soon
be one of the past all | can say is
this TO each and every one Of you,
do the very best you can, and may
earth and heavens richest blessings
rest upon you, and what | say to
one / say to ALL when poor papa Is
gone, remember that his will and
wish Is to know that he dearly and
truly and sincerely loved you all. l.
beg to remain, your husband and ia
Their in great love- and all the oceans
of eternity.
"R, ]. HUFF"
Huff's Farewell"
Here is Huff's farewell message"
Atlanta. Ga, Jan. 10, 1914.
ITO the Daily Papers of Atlanta;
Dear Sirs-For twelve years |
have been a citizen OF your town. /
have never so much as asked you for
one fourth of an inch in your col
umns. Therefore / am. asking you to
give me space for my farewell mes
sage TO the city and people whom l
love so well.
1T may be and 1t is true that you
have men in your town that have
built slyscrapers, that have built
railroads and carried forward other
great enterprises, but you have never
had within your town and community
man who had the welfare of the
city Of Atlanta at heart any more
Than your humble esrvant, for oft
times when the dark curtains of mid
night were drawn before the face of
Atlanta | was on my knees praying to
Got at the thorne of His Grace for
the welfare of your city, but the hour
draweth near when ] shall leave
Therefore ] want to relate just a
small bit OF my experience and then
Just one word OF exhortation, and, last
OF all, one word of warning.
Some years ago | felt that God
laid His hand upon me to preach His
own everlasting gospel, and / have
never doubted that call from that day
to this In the least, and am glad TO
say that He has given me many con-
versions under the preaching of His
gospel.
Financial Difficulties.
TN my early life and also in my
early ministry. when | was young and
more foolish than now, | got started
in the wrong channel in a financial
way, but with no intention of evil
doing, but then and there some of my
brethren thought to the contrary. and
charge Of Christian conduct was
brought against me, and | was eX-
Guided from the church without the
slightest intimation of a trial, but
later was restored and afterward was
ordained TO the full gospel ministry
Some days later the tide of the
course of human events seemingly
was against me again. and from that
day TO this my life has been an ebh
and flow life. and more ebb than flow
but I was always looking forward to
brighter day.
Therefore with new hopes and with
greater zeal ] would go forth each
and every day doing that which
thought was best under the prevail
ing circumstances, and there have
been times when ! would sit down anC
count up the amount that l was du,
the other fellow and then ] woulC
ask myself what ! was worth, anC
sometimes / reached the point wher,
J was almost able to stem the tide
but l. like the Apostol Paul, unfor
tunately fell into the hands of falls,
brethren and the serpent would bit,
and Satan would get in again hi
most deadly work and cause the cur
rent of prosperity to revert and &
from me.
However. ] do not wish the peo