The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-04-01
Richmond, Ga, 3-2S-l9i5.
Editor Lee County Journal:

bath day and | have just heard one
Of the cid time Methodist sermons
preached, | feel like writing you q
few lines. The Methodists all over
this great city started a series OF
meetings and will continue them
until Easter Sunday. / have been
as often the past week as the wealth
err would permit, and want to say
right here that. while /. am q Bap-
fist Hove to hear these Methodist
preach. have been going to the
Monumental Methodist church the
past week, as it is close to the hos
pital and one Of the finest churches
in the city costing $3.50, 900, and
some of the richest men here are
members Of this church, and what
struck me so was. when you go to
this church they take you by the
hand and give you a hearty shake
making you feel like YOU are well
come, and while the preacher is
praying or any Of the members you
can hear the good brothers say
amen, bless God, etc. 1t sounds
GOOD to me and makes me feel like
| did 40 years ago when | used to
90 to the cid Bartlett Methodist
church in Chokee District of Lee
county and hear old man Tommy
Speight preach those good old time
sermons, and see old Sisters Bart
lett and Saaler shout. Those were
good Old days to me. Now it is
different with the Baptist and Pres
byterians, have heard, hele.
They never say amen Or bless God,
nor even grunt. only when the
preacher wants to take up collec-
ton for missions or something else,
then you can see them kinder wig
gle in their seats but nobody saws
amen. They sing the new tangled
songs, and then if a fellow has re-
ligion they knock tall out Of him.
They callthem duets, solos, altoes
and CONTRACTORS and all sorts OF
toes. There is no religion in no
such singing. It seems to me like
I am in theatre more than a
church. There is too much style
in the church now and not enough
Of Christ preached in the old way
They have a paid choir and you
understand one word they
say while singing. Sometimes
they sing so loud that it seems to
me their voices are going higher
than the German aeroplanes that
are dropping torpedoes into the
Allies army. Now these good old
Methodists sing such songs as
How Firm Foundation" Safe
in the Arms Of Jesus" Rescue
The Perishing, etc, and when the
choir Of 25. strikes up these old
familiar songs it makes me feel
like | am sitting down in Leesburg
with my old colored friend, Sister
Emma Hall, and both of US sing
ing at the top of our voices will
There be any Stars in my Crown"
Well Mr.. Editor / received a let
ter few days ago from your good
father who has been my friend for
many years, giving me a special
to pay him visit at
Washington, d. G. He said he
would show me around and point
out to me some of the graft there.
| see in his letters that he is expos
ing some of the graft in Washing
ton, and | trust he will continue to
do so until they are run out of bus
mess. The common people are
taxed to death to keep them up.
Keep up the good work Brother
Blanton and clean them up.
On last Sunday l was invited to
ga out in the country 5 miles on
the interbabun cars and take din
ner with my friend Mr.. Harry
Dowdy. He had been patient at
the hospital and was cured, often
insisting on my coming and taking
dinner with. so / did. He told me
he would give me something to eat
that 1 had never tasted before and
he did SO. His good wife had