The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-08-13
culpepper Vale. :

What power for good or evil there
| is in man. The human brain operated
ON by divinity produces love in the
heart, justice in the mind and that bar
mony between Creator and creature that
gives to this turbulent universe peace.
For the past two weeks we have had
in our midst a messenger from the Court
of Grace. A character as loyable as
unique, viriIe, militant, sympathetic
and earnest; one whose soul sickened
at sin while loving the sinner; one who
possessed more of the rugged virlllty
of the alarmist than the rounded periods
of oratorical fire OF the evangelist. A
healthy, vigorous man, with all man 8
inclination to evil subdued by the grace
of God and used as battle ak to defeat
their author. Burke Culpepper, Mari
anna salutes you. You found us self
complacent, ease-loving and innocuous,
shriveled in soul, bloated in body, cow
ards in the army of God, and hogs in
the army of man, spiritually dead and
covered with the dry husks OF ancient
form and ceremonial. You left us alive,
ouiyering like thoroughbred, to begin
the fight against the world, the flesh
and the devil.
The ear is no more polluted by the
slime OF profanity, and, in the place OF
"Oh, YOU kid, (" IT'S the ice man, )"
etc., you hear the young men whlstllng
"Jesus Included Me-" Far be it from
us to place the instrument ahead OF the
performer, but in rendering tribute OF
honest thanks to the instrument (Bro.
Culpepper) we are honoring the glorl-
GUS performer-Almighty God. Bro.
Culpepper did not SOW the seed nor
give it the first cultivation, but IN the
niche of time be applied the phosphates
of sincerity and earuestness, the nitrates
of brotherly love worked in the rough
harrow of caustic criticism and acrid
wit.
l wish every man, who thinks there
is nothing in revivals, could see what
we can show. Men who one year ago
would have taken each others lives at
the drop of hat are now hand and
glove. co-workers for good; coats off,
sleeves rolled up, delivering many
punches on the ''solar plexus" of sin.
See them charter trains to attend the
Culpepper meetings here in Mariana,
heart and soul for God. wish you
could have seen the departure from
here of one of these speials-the Mari
anna folk singing God Be With You
Till We Meet again" the Forest City
folk responding as they gradually faded
into the dark perspective, We Shall
Meet on That Beautiful Shore"
Don't believe in revivals? Why any
one who don't would pay five cents for
a long distance talk with heaven. Ask
Rondo, Aubrey, Forrest City, Spring
Creek, LAGRANGE, Haynes, Oak For
rest; they'll tell you better feeling
exists between planter and merchant,
neighbor and neighbor, than ever be-
fore, and that the standard Of morality
has been raised several degrees. Sue
cess to you, Brother Culpepper; remem-
Der that the prayers of rapidly increas-
ing thousands will follow you in your
work, and each succeeding meeting we
feel the effect of those prayers. May
your physical strength remain equal to
the ardor of your soul, sustaining you
until your destiny has been fulfilled,
and one does not need to be prophet
to add, and that destiny is great one.
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