The Harrison times., 1919-03-01
LETTER FROM MRS. J. T. WILSON.

We thought To give your readers
something OF our trip here via Eureka
/ Springs, Arkansas, Kansas City and
S. Louis, Missouri, WOodlawn and
Ashley, Illionis. and Nashville and
. Brolhorton, Tennessee.
f We took the train at Harrison about
the middle of September, 1918, and
stopped off at Eureka Springs for a
few more days BY this time the tour
lat population had about all gone
away. but while we were there in Au
gust were informed by the Basin Park
Hotel proprietor there had been $4,000
( tourists before the middle of August
The railroad strike being on at the
time OF our leaving Eureka Springs we
took the motor to Seligman, Mo,
thence a through train to Kansas City,
arriving at the Union depot Sunday
morning about Z O'Clock. There we
took a street ear to the Gospel Mis-
sionary Union Home to visit that band
of missionary workers at which place
they had the guest room in readiness
for us,
Just here dear reader, it is hard for
me to express my appreciation OF these
Christian workers inasmuCh as | re-
ceiYed from them the best idea OF the
really true missionary spirit OF any
ever met
The building, a tourstOry brick, is
equipped with every convenience to do
good work, such as light, heat, water
works and the work runs as systo
matte as clock work, yet the workers
/ OF whom there were eighteen or twen-
| ty at the time under training, practice
| the most rigid economy in living It
would rebuke and touch the heart of
the average church member today to
see how happy they are to deny them
selves every thing save the barest ne
ceSsities of life, thereby sending out
. $4,000 annually to the various mis-
sion fields, besides Bibles, books and
tracts by the hundreds of thousands.
/ After seeing the demonstration of
such unusual piety and self-sacrifice
in the heart of a great old wicked city,
better understood the Scriptural quo.
tation, Where sin abounds, Grace
doth much more abound" Rom $40,
| After several days spent with these
missionary workers we left for st.
Louis to visit the missions there.
First we stopped off in East ST.
Louis to visit our kinsman, w H.
Ray, who is receiver of all the stock
shipped to st. Louis Union Stock
yards and who informed us the Mon
/ day previous to our arrival was the
biggest in the history of St Louis. If
we remember right forty thousand cat
tie and twenty-one thousand hogs
were received on that day.
After visiting the mission work in
Belleville, Illinois, also St Louis,
Kirkwood and Webster, Missouri, we
spent some time with a lady mission
ary friend visiting charitable institu
tions throughout the city. On the last
night of our sojourn in st Louis we
attended prayer meeting in the Brooks
Bible Institute where we met late
returned lady missionary from Africa
whose earnestness of heart greatly
impressed the writer.
After bidding these friends goodbye
we went next day to WOOdlawn, Iii
nois, where Rev Wilson assisted in a
meeting After week spent at Wood
lawn and Ashley we left for Nashville
where we intended spending some
time, and on our arrival found the flu
raging 50 we thought best to come on
sooner
We only spent a short time at Broth
erton also because of the flu
When we at last arrived here in
late October. 1918, this historic old
town of Livingston, situated as it is
/ in a valley almost surrounded by the
I foot hills of the Cumberland Noun
! tains arayed just then in gorgeous
attire of autumn colors, it presented a
/ picturesque scene to the writer's first
/ view.
/ This would be good health resort
insomuch as il has all the essentials
/ of health and longevity. good whole
some atmosphere and an abundance
of good pure water gushing from the
/ hillsides. There were fewer fatalities
from the flu epidemic here than else.
where near
/ This county has the distinction of
sending a whole company Of soldier
volunteers besides more than its quo
ia altogether.
This is the home town and county
of our present governor, Governor
Roberts, recently inaugurated and