The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-02-05

The moment man prociaims 10 US
,.orid that he Is in possession Oh q
aoror which. deep down in his SOU
no knows he does not have thae
cement he surrendeTs his integri'!
o,a nsrts with vast quantity ci
~. salf respeet without which no
man can be good. The frst s'ep
-, soarn 10 him harmless because
=, the fact that ne has been taught
TIA, other men possess supernatural
,over and he may look to such 10
conc IN him. When days, months
and gears roll by, AMI he is not en-
dowod from On hign he either ac-
kuowledges lis mistake and turns
lhact mr. decides to get all he can
Iof the power ard ease by preyihs
mon the oredulity of his fellow
creatures He denies that he exef-
else force to restrain his dapes but
liz he. by appealing to their saper-
stitiong renders them subseryient 10
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he will he is morally as guilty q
liz he had exercised bruta' Phy5'eai
force Oh. why will mea degto@e
tho blessed soul saving power OF ne
life and teachings of the Christ by
teaching dogmas conceived OF the
devil and born in the darkest cor
ner of hell? Why will men not be
content to proclaim the plain terms
of the gospel as taught and prac-
ticed nv the lowly NazarineY why
is If that nearly 1900 years after the
gospel was proclaimed, men VIII
mako His temple q house Of mer-
cbandise and resort TO as dark
WAYS as the ancient Egyptian priest
hood? Oh, That all men and Wo-
men would awake to the fact that
the least among them are as mueh
in the care and have as influential
at the throne of God as the most
learned theologician that ever lFed
uDon the earth Down with mean
ingless dogmas and rank hypocricy.
Arise, We people. and assert your
selves. Be men and women, learn
the simple truth and do it.
AS the weather was little in
clement last week, / did very little
visiting in the parish. Z. A. Howard
from Bardwell l was here Monday
to see me on important business.
Mrs. M. c. Cornwell from Milford
was shopping st Wazahachle
Monday. J. W. Stafford, a good far
mer on Venus / did something 20
cause me to give his name place
in my field notes j p Whitefieid,
who gave $4,000 for 100 acres Of
land near Red Oak a few years ago,
was. here last week. j. F. splawn
from Ennis drove away the blues
from me. A. S. Smith has moved
from Waxahachie to Ennis 5.
think 1 can recommend him to those
people. w. j. Johnson from Fer
ris was good to me. B. l.. Nc
! Carter from Waxahachie F contrib
uted to the W. and o. fund. Mr.
and Mrs. e. L. Harper from near
Boyce came up in their car. w. H.
Odom, an Ellis county pioneer and
good farmer, is now living near
Nash. d. II. Brannon, one of the
best looking farmers on Venus 1,
was here. II. j. Osborne, colored,
a Primitive Baptist preacher, got
i%ot back on my list. He lives near
Forreston. Sam Farris, who has lived
in Waxahachie for some time, has
moved TO farm on Milford 2. Sam
always does we'll when he farms.
| W. A. Cox on Hawkins street is one
of our new readers. Mr.. and Mrs
F. S. Hudson have moved to town
and are doing dairy business on
Vickery street. j. M. Cox, a former
Ellis county farmer, was here last
week on account of the serious i'll
ness of his brother-in4laW, T. A.
Beatty. Mr.. Cox lives near Olney,
in Young county. w NJ Parten, an
old citizen and good man of the
Nash country, was here last week.
Daniel Vaughn from near Plum
Grove was here. His father, T. r.
Vaughn, passed away January IA,
at the age of 65. He was a good
man and many friends mourn.
George Washington Jenkins of Mid
lothian l was here attending court.
am not sure Georges middle name
is Washington, but know it ought
TO be for he is truthful and while
not the father of his country. is
the father of several country men
and country women.
| went up TO Sterrett Thursday.