The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-23
SYLVESTER 4. LONG IN
A PLEASING LECTURE
VIVID PICTURE OF UNREST OF
PEOPLE Is DRAWN BY Lee
TURER WHO HAS A GIFT.
Declares Selfishness Is Holding Peo-
pie Down and Making Them
Slaves to Narrow Things
of the World.

Those who failed to hear Sylves-
ter A. Long last night missed one of
the most powerful addresses ever de-
lievered in the city.
At exactly half past eight he
stepped upon the platform and be-
gan a masterful discourse that held
the audience spellbound for more
than an hour and half. Minutes
passed like seconds as the eloquent
sentences rolled from his tongue. as
convincing as they were eloquent.
He said, People are hungry liter
ally straving for the things they
have not. They want new job, a
new home or just. anything new and
to them the novelty of the thing is
about all there Is to 1t. People are
restless and want to move. They
pack up and go to new town or
city, and behold, they find the same
things there. 1t is not the town, it is
the man. You can find almost any
thing in any place and If you are
looking for the good, you can find it
in abundance anywhere you CO."
He paid tribute to some fellows
that are always found in every town
and said If we did not think that
some of them lived here just start
out to build better schools or i'm
prove the town In any way and We
would soon butt up against them.
1.-THE greatest curse to any city is
the living. healthy, unburied dead.
The most some people could possibly
add to a town would be to subtract
themselves" she said.
He said he was not a politician
but that he rejoiced in the fact that
the people were from now on going
to elect men to office that would
fill the bill and do something re-
CARELESS of republican, democratic or
any other party.
Finally he painted a picture of a
most beautiful world to live in and
said II there was any fault to find
it would be found in ourselves, not
so much with other people. "Sel-
fishness is holding people down and
making them slaves to the narrow
things of the world. man does
not need to die to live In heaven.
If you will start out In the world to
be of service and put your own de-
sires in the background and help the
other fellow to be what he wants to
be there will be heaven right here"
1t Is to be regretted that space will
not permit of printing more from the
lecture as every sentence counted for
good.
There are three other numbers on
the lyceum course. The local COM
mittee has already large deficit and
1t will be much larger by the end OF
the course unless the people rally
better 20 the remaining numbers
than they did to the two that have
passed. 1t does seem that Waxaha-
chic should have a good lyceum
course each year and 1t can be made
a success If every one will cooperate
to make 1t such. Ii will be a great
loss to lose the course when We are
having such good attractions brought
here as the committee are bringing
this season. Let us rally to the COM
mittee and save the course for an
other year II is no personal affair.
but something that is for the entire
town, a splendid benefit especially
to the young people. II is not every
one that cares to so off TO Dallas or
some other place to spend their
money ana we should bring the best