The broad ax., 1920-12-25

| Rockdale, TeXas-N nat nave Nou
planned for Christmasi So many peo'
pie have made plans for Christmas and
have been called TO their eternal rest,
that it is hard TO tell just how many
of us will be here now, although we
have made plans looking forward TO
a glorious time. / have made my plans
and YOU have made yours. l want TO
be able to make some one happy.
I am still in Texas, but 1 will bet
YOU nv head to a ginger cake that l
will not be in the state when you read
this letter. and may not be in this sec
tion of the country, for am going TO
move some and will receive all of my
Christmas presents at 1922 Aberdeen
street. Chicago, Illinois, and from
there 1 will start out for another year,
| if the Lord wills to have me do so.
! am now leaning on His arms, and
where He tells me to go, will go, and
what He tells me to do I will do, and
this is all that will be required of me.
The world continues TO move. and it
/, looks as if l am going to move with
il. If 1 do 1 will and if do not I
will not. have spent just two weeks
with Bishop William Decker johnson,
and, honey, he is one f the men of
this race of ours. You see we did not
know much about him when he was
serving as a mere pastor, and presid-
ing elder. He lived in a little world
called Georgia, and here and there we
would catch a word about him. But
he has stepped out into a larger sphere
and the whole world is hearing from
him through his wonderful messages
which he is delivering to our people,
and then through the great work he is
doing for his people.
I don Z know as have ever seen a
man more fatherly and more brotherly
than Bishop William Decker johnson,
and he is certainly the bishop of all
the people, and all of them can reach
him, and get right close up to him,
and say what they want TO say to him.
He is a man every inch of him, and
have been able to fall in love with him.
In his conferences he is accompanied
by his wife, and it is interesting TO
hear her tell the story of their early
struggles.
She married him, at a time when
clothes were scarce, especially with
DR.. johnson. He was on a mission,
and lived in a parsonage with one
room, parlor, bedroom, kitchen and
dining-room, but he worked on that
mission like it was a great big church |
rendering metropolitan service in a
which was but preparing him
for the larger things. He had vision,
and saw himself one of the bishops, |
and his eye sight did not deceive him.
I think unto them were bonn 10 or 10 |
children, and that meant work. He !
made friends of all the people, and |
there was no way to keep him down if
it had been tried. I have been around |
with him.
Ny message came to you last week
from Fort Worth, Texas, and I was
then around with my good friend, DR..
y. T. Wallis, who is a tooth, dentist
doctor, spends his time in fixing up
old snags, half-soleing, and patching in
other ways. He knows the game.
1t was bright and early Monday !
morning that he got me up and ready |
for another part of the world. I had |
been invited by Rev. ]. II. Hughes, of |
Cameron, to visit him, and the invita-
tion was accepted. So Mrs. Hughes
called by in order that she might get
TO ride to the stable in DR.. Willis au-
tomobile car carriage. Well. we
reached the Santa Fe stable, purchased
TO ride, checked luggage and
were soon off for Cameron. reaching
there in the afternoon. Rev. J. II.
Hughes, who is pastor of the A. NJ. f.
Church, was there in an automobile car
carriage TO meet US and tote US TO the
parsonage. except me, and I was sent
TO the public school, where 1 found a
happy set of young people. Prof. Bart