The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-07-23
PREACH FOR ROAD BUILDERS
Ministers Asked to Cooperate in Pa
cah-Memphis Project.

At the Dyersburg meeting OF th'
West Tennessee Business Mems
Clubs a resolution was passed thai
the chairman issue request to the
ministers of West Tennessee thai
they preach suitable sermon or
some phase of the Paducah- Memphis
, highway question.
The resolution follows:
To All Ministers of the Gospel, Ter
ritory of West Tennessee:
Gentlemen-It being clearly ap-
parent that the movement conducted
by the good roads department of this
league for the improvement of West
ern Tennessee highways (under
which it is proposed to construct in
one day, July 20, by gratis labor
and use of teams and implements, a
number of first-class dirt highways
thru this section) embraces elements
of interest to moralism as well as to
agriculturalism and commercialism
it is felt by the committee in charge
of the movement, as was expressed
by a motion, unanimously carried,
at general meeting of these COM
mittees recently held in Dyersburg,
that the ministry of West Tennessee
should be asked to take part in this
campaign of good roads, and the un-
dersigned was appointed to make re-
quest of these ministers to do so, as
follows:
That they use some theme for
their respective morning discourses
Sunday, July 25, that will give en-
lightment on the benefits of good
roads to the moral upbuilding of
Western Tennessee or some subject
that will show the interest churches
have in good roads. A subject of
this kind, applied to this county, was
used by Rev. T. T. Myers, First
Methodist Church, Covington, Tenn,
in an able discourse delivered by
him Sunday, June II, which, as has
been reported by the citizens of that
community, proved greatly beneficial
to this movement in the vicinity of
Covington, and it was from the vol
unteered aid in this way to the
cause of good roads on the part OF
this prominent minister that came
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other ministers to participate as
above in the effort being generally
made thruout Western Tennessee at
this time for good roads.
The League of West Tennessee
Business Mems Clubs is sure that
good roads constitute vital interest
to the churches, for the reason that
church attendance is often more or
less affected by road conditions in
much of the territory of Western
Tennessee, frequently to the extent
of services being called off on ac-
count of bad roads-this the case es-
pecially in rural districts in winter
time; and that ministries to the sick
and poor and those otherwise un-
fortunate are sometimes made impos-
;ible because of impossible condition
If the roads in this section.
For these reasons and no doubt
many others of direct interest to
church work, and the fact that
churches stand always for progress
Iiveness, the league feels that West
Tennessee ministers in general will
enter willingly into the endeavor
hat has become so widespread over
,ur grand section for good roads and
wishes to assure the ministers that |
heir efforts in this or any other
way that they might wish to engage
N this movement will be greatly ap-
Very truly,
w. G.. REYNOLDS.
Chairman Good Roads Department,
league of West Tennessee Business
Mems Clubs.