The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-10-25
The New Awakening About to Dawn,
the Sun of Righteousness.
By N. w. Harllee

When we contemplate the ami
versary OF Nation, we search the
records, we scan the monuments of
the nations heroes; we recount the
achievements and relate them in
songs and praise to our children so
the coming generation may be adj
vised of the memorable deeds both
by written history, monumental evil
dence and granite, bronze and brass,
may render unto Caesar the things
that belong to Caesar. but the indi-
vidual rising up in the community
may not be so fortunate as the strong
financial hand of the government to
have erected to him monuments for
his private deeds, surely not monu-
ments of granite, but monuments and
records that the insSS..,"te tooth of
time can not effect, but those higher
monuments that tell in the lives and
characters of men and women.
We contemplate the anniversary of
the individual, we also search the
records, and this time. the individual
is the Very Rev. E. Arlington Wilson,
Phi. B.. d. D., pastor of the Macedonia
Baptist church, whose anniversary
of his first years services took place
yesterday. This anniversary is full
of good works as set forth in the
records read at the end of the first
year PASTORAL services. and this re-
cord is one that speaks for itself.
But before giving the record of our
subject, we would relate the work
of his predecessors in brief state
ment.
Father Pardee, who has been gath
cred to his fathers, was once the
pastor of the Macedonia Baptist
Church, and when we were a repor-
ter on the great Dallas Morning
News, we well remember reporting
q sermon delivered by, Father Par
dee in which he said that ii was
strange to him that men could not
elect to do good as we'll as to do
wrong and from that time forward.
we have thought much about the
philosophy in the expression, and
we know the argument that is put
forth and all that, but ii is still
strange, and the more one thinks of
II, the stranger IL becomes. Raising
his long arms, Father Pardee asked,
why can you not will to do right,
is il not Just as easy to will to do
do right as it is to will to do wrong"
The following pastors of the Ma
cedonia Baptist Church were minis
tiers who did good work and made
additions to the church and were
men of ability and who have left
pleasant memories as an inheritance
for the encouragement of their flock:
DR.. S. Z. j. Watson, Rev. A. c. Cap
ers, DR.. F. K White, DR.. l.. X. Will
liams, the latter of whom we shall
have more to say in another article.
We wish to return to the worthy
pastor. DR.. Wilson. most remark
able man with a remarkable career
as evidenced in the boy preacher in
the gospel ministry in Kansas City
while during his college course and
at the same time leading a oongre-
cation at the age when most col
lege youngsters are sowing wild oats
or striving to prove TT a million
OF angles can stand on the point
OF a needle. But the lad, the pres
ent great minister was called to the
pastorate and for six years made
good, called without application, a
lad called to do a mans work, to
wear the priestly ermin, to direct
the destiny Of the old and young, and
that congregation made no mistake.
and when he was called To go else
where without application after his
faithful service in Kansas City, hun
drecs OF the faithful members whom
he had pastored, followed him to the
station as an attestion Of their love
and generation for his good works.
But the boy is father to the man,
and we find this lad pursuing his
academic course at the Bishop Col
lege at the age of sixteen, full of
promise and full to the brim with
that inspiration which pointed to the
brighter day that awaited him who
had faith in manly efforts and the
wisdom TO start with the tide of life
to reach the goal at the crest of the
flood so that the matured thought Of
the man would be used for his race
and spreading out like the roots OF
the giant oak Of the forest that sus-
tain the oak both by reason of the
strength OF the roots and at the
game drawing nourishment both from
the elements above and the nature
OF the earth beneath.
The gospel ministry is such an
inviting and useful field where much
good can be accomplished and where
ability counts and where in the near
furture no profession in compensa-
ton will count for more, and it is
some what strange that more OF the
Young college men fail to enter the