The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-28
BILL Cox's LETTER.

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There is fidelity TO nature and
an Understandable simplicity in the
speech OF the untutored which goes
straight to mind and heart OF the
listener who will lay as ae AL con-
seriousness. superiority and c.neful-
~ follow the line of argument.
There is negro woman who has
been comino to Waxahachie and
preaching on the street for several
years. | have always regarded her
as the most practical expouader OF
the Bible OF any of the numerous
men and women who stand or the
street corners and preach to hui
mainly as it runs. She claims no
church membership except as a
member of the church of Ged. /
listened to her for while Saturday
evening and was so much impressed
with the fact that her religion and
mine were alike that ] cannot re-
frain from reproducing her argu-
ment. She asserted that the effect
of religion is bond of love which
binds all together. Sho said If a
mal has religion he Will NOT slam
der his fellow man: If woman has
religion she win not be spying on
her sister to find 5000 indiscrect
act to make the foundation for a
sensational report to put in circu-
lation. She ridiculed the practice
of obligating candidate for menu
bership to be governed by the rules
Of the church which she said was a
man made organization. She call
ed upon Roger Williams, Joha
Wesley and Alexander to show their
authority for establishing churches.
She ridiculed the idea OF getting
religion and said religion was not
something to be gotten but q duty
She had her companion. another
negro women, to read James 1:26-
~. IF any man among you seem
to be religious. and bridleth not his
tongue, but deceiveth his own
heart. this mans religion is vain. :"
Pure religion and undecided be-
fore God and the Father IS this, to
visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and to keep HIM
self unspotted from the world. She
ridiculed the idea of sinner pray
ing for deligeranee from the prac-
tice of sin. As an Illustration she
said if a man had a bottle full OF
whiskey up to his head and the con-
tents were running into his mouth
his prayer to stop the drinkins, pro-
cess would never sop the flow of
the whiskey into him unless he
should take it away from his head.
| understood her to mean that no
man ever amended his life until his
heart and mind become fully set
upon reformation She seemed to
teach that the preaching of tie age
tends too much to minimize the
potentialities of the effort of the in
dividuai and shifted too much re-
sponsibility upon Jehovah. The
idea seemed to have found lodg-
ment under her kinky wool that the
way to reform the world is by pre-
cept and example TO lead men and
women to clean thinking. Every
one who has prayed God TO deliver
them from a course in life without
even wishing for such prayer TO be
answered can understand What she
meant, She took shot at these
long prayers by saying When
people pray these great long pray
ers they don't believe half they
pray" How many of us have
prayed with seeming earnestness
for God to come to the rescue and
help us to quit some favorite sin
when we would not have said
word had we believed he would
comply with our request? l have
asked the Lord to free me from
the dominion of certain sins when l
would have actually been hopping
mad if He had done what | asked.
1 am sure there are others who will
read this who have had Ike ex-
perience. liked the negro wom-
ans sermon because she courseled
honesty With yourself and your
maker
met Mr.. S. n. Whitesidc. who
was president of the singing con-
Nention. at Italy last Sunday week.
lie tells me | got the wrong inn