Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-08
HOT;,,SPRINGS THINKS
Highly OF COPELAND
Namp Williams Writes Kemp Toney
of New Lakeside Pastor. and
Press COmmcnLS Minister.


Hamp Williams Of Hot Springs,
| former state senator and head of the
| Hamp Williams Hardware COMPANY,
writes Attorney II. X. Toney in most
| complimentary terms of the Rev.
| Theo. Copeland, who has been assign
ed to the Lakeside Methodist church
OF Pine Bluff. Mr.. Williams letter,
dated at Hot Springs, Dec. B. follows:
Senator Kemp Toney, Pine Bluff,
Arkansas.
| "My Dear Friend AT the last
Methodist conference at Malvern !
see the bishop 'swapped' our pastor
for your pastor. ] didn't have any
thing to do with that trade. If had
would not have 'swapped,' and from
what I can understand the people of
about Mr.. Waldrip. But let that be
as it may the swap is made.
"When Brother Copeland comes
down there l want you to take little
interest in him. l don't know what
church you belong to. You may be-
long to the same one that | do.
Really, l think you do, because you
usually adjust yourself to conditions
"Rrother Copeland is an eXcep-
tionally good man. In all my life I
have sNETNNsat TENDED church so regu-
la rly ssshsyEe since he has been ,in
Hot Springs Breachins for us. HNs
not one of,sthese long-faced, sahH1i-
inonious kind, but heSis q big, shlfad
character that tries ,satp,d2e justice..> NV
everybody. He is yabsolHtetg trud5and
loyal Ito his. chalgch atlds to Eshis
friends But he isssnpt one of Those
kind that think nobody rs going;Sto
heaven except HIM just a few
others of his belief He gives ;yQll
credit for what you are and not: what
you pretend to be. @...,..st
"He has lovely wife. She is an
ornament in any society or in any
neighborhood. and Il want you to put
yourself out Of the way a little to give
them hearty welcome when they
come to Pine Bluff, and you will new.
CT regret it. -
Besides you will do me favor.
"Your friend,
CHAMP WILLIAMS."'
Press Lauds Minister.
Commenting upon Mr.. Copeland's
| transfer to Pine Bluff from Hot
! Springs, the New Era of the City of
| Vapors says:
Genuine and city-wide regret is
| the only way one could adequately
describe the aftermath of the Metho-
dist church conference. which closed
Sunday night in Malvern and which
decreed that Rev. DR.. Theodore Cope
land, pastor of the Central Methodist
| church, should take charge of the
r o1xo Iict oh hn 1or
est in the city of Pine Bluff, and that
| the pastor Of that church should be
sent to occupy Rev. DR.. Copeland's
lulpit in this city.
"The regret manifested was not be-
cause a new minister was coming, for
he is said to be a very able man. but
because one that everyone had learn
ed to love, honor and respect was
| leaving this city, where for two years
he has done a most wonderful work.
Sunday it got noised about the city
that. the appointments would be read,
and the phone in Rev. DR.. Cope
| lands home was kept busy, his friends
insisting on getting the first news
concerning his future. If DR.. Cope
land knew Of the change he kept that
information to himself and did not
presume to anticipate in any state
ments what action might be taken.
"Before coming to Hot Springs
Rev. Dr.. Copeland had passed an
eight years ministry, in the St. Paul
Methodist church and the Cabanne
Methodist church, St. Louis, two of
the, slargest%sco congregations of that
faith. there. He is. one of the elo-
quent and s.big vmen Of the Methodist,
ministry ,andssin every ward: iii the
city he; hasahis friends by. the score.
Rich and poor alike, regret to, see him
leave Not in years has there been
such an interest aroused over any
probable change in local ministers as
in his case. for all who had learned
to appreciate the. man wanted him