Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-07-12
Letter rom Prince Hubbard
Monday, July LIST, IL q. M, 1918.
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Monday, July LIST. IL q. m, 1918.
Camp Jackson, s. O.,
Y. ". c. A. Bldg, No. i42.
Editor Macon Beacon.
The writer Is in a notion to write
and you are the victim.
Remembering that the people Of
Noxubee county and the State Of Mis-
sissippi invested their means last fall
in the stock of this association in a
manner. compared to their allotment,
second to none, probably One other
State, people in the United States, and
that when the opportunity arrives for
you to reinvest you will cheerfully,
promptly and enthusiastically over
subscribe your allotment again; ltake
it that the mentioning of a few things
you are providing for the manifest
men that eve made an army fighting
that right might triumph over wrong.
After a connection of thirty days
with the Army Y. NJ. c. A. at the
above camp and building, | am OF the
opinion that the greatest and most
appreciated, as well as the most in
spring and elevating from the spir-
itual, moral and physical point OF
view, service that the association is
rendering your army with your mon
ey here is the innumerable little
things that are done for them in a
Christian spirit of service.
The establishing and maintaining
of a closer relationship to God,
through a knowledge of the life of
Christ; a higher conception and am
bition of morals in every thought,
word and action; greater care and
that part of man lives which can nev-
err, never, never die (Sanitation-
Cleanliness is next to Goodness"
TO be Godlike is the top round of the
ladder and one cannot reach 1t with
out first having made that next to
the top.
The theoretical part in achieving
the above is not a major factor in the
operation or activity; preaching and
teaching the life of Christ and the
great and inestimable truths he lived
and taught Is used in this work, but,
as mentioned above, it is somewhat
of a minor factor compared to the
practice of the service Christ rem
dered men during his short life here.
In endeavoring to practice "Christ's
Christianity (Drummond), tbs the
aim of the association to have it's
men serve by or through the doing
more than the saying of things.
The association needs, wants, must
have and will get CD men. I
call to mind so many real men there
in Noxubee county who will be useful
in this work.
Each man in our army might be
compared to a link in an immense
chain; the army a be no stronger
than the weakest link (man).
The Y. M. G. A. is a major factor
in strengthening each link and there
by making the chain stronger.
Quite a few Mississippians in the
"Y' work here and tbs great to see
people "sit up and take notice" when
we tell them that we are from Mis-
sissippi-they all here remember that
Mississippi led the nation last fall in
the Y. M. c. A. drive.
May | state, in closing, that | am
not unmindful of the fact that hold
a commission to represent you people
in the lower house of the Legisla-
ture, and that this privilege and evil
dence of your esteem and confidence
is appreciated and cherished to the
extent of being ever ready to dis
charge whatever duties may devolve
upon me in a ann consistent with
the people of Noxubee county who are
held in high regard throughout the
entire State of Mississippi.
Very truly,
Prince ID. Hubbard.