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, AT LOWER LONG CANE
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of them of a Cody people who made
a community fit to live in. Like their
ancestors they live at home, at peace
with their neighbors, love God and
keep His commandments. In a little
while the Messenger of the Maker
came, and soon the Sabbath School
was under way. Col. Roche sat in the
Bible class, or near> enough to hear
Rev. Mr.. Bradley teach this class,
and he was much impressed with it,
as he said the preacher asked all the
questions and then answered them,
and the scholars" had nothing to do
but listen.
After the Sabbath School, presid-
ed over by Mr.. w. H. Kennedy, was
dismissed, the preaching began. We
noticed that while the psalms were
sung by what was called the choir,
they were really sung by the congre-
CATION, all of those who could sing
gathering on the front seats, the Or
gan sitting in front being played by
Mrs. Bradley, the wife of the minis
ter. In the choir were the Morrahs,
the Wardlaws, the Widemans, includ-
ing Boyce Wideman who sings with.
fine tenor voice, the Cowans, des-I
cendants of Samuel Jordan, the Wat
kins, the Youngs and others. They
sing the psalms as they should be sung
and one feels in the old church as
they are sung and as the preacher
reads and prays that he is in the
Temple of the Master.
The preacher read the psalms be-
fore they were sung, and then told
the congregation to sing them
straight through" which reminded
us of story told by Gen. Hemphill
in his lifetime. 1t was to the effect
that one Of the old ministers of the
church in the long ago arrived at his
church, went into the pulpit and
found that he was too full of good
corn liquor to commence the preach
ing at once. So he got up and told
the singing master to sing the 10th
psalm and "sing it straight through. I"
When the singing was over he was
ready to proceed. However, that does
not hold now at Lower Long Cane
because these are dry times. The
scriptures were read in a reverential
and impressive manner, and after an
other psalm had been sung prayer
was offered blythe pastor, and it car
ried us back to the times when we
heard DIR. Latham and DR.. William l..
Pressly pray at Due West. There was
nothing of the modern petitions nor
style, but an atmosphere of deep
piety in it all.
The text was taken from the Sec
ond chepter of Titus, 5th verse, and it
was powerful argument the preach
er advanced against woman suffrage.
It is not our purpose to tell what he
said, as he has kindly allowed us the
use of his manuscript and it is our
purpose to publish the sermon in
either Wednesdays or Fridays issue,
and those who did not hear the ser
mon may read it with profit on the
next Sabbath.
We noticed another thing. The
people at Lower Long Cane, as they
do at most churches in the country,
still take the small children to church.
The little fellows are taught early
that it is the place to GO on the Sab
bath day. They grow tired to be true,
and when they do, they get up and
walk up and down the aisles until
they are refreshed, or they go out to
the front of the church, sometimes
the mother goes along and listens
from the rear to the balance Of the
sermon, and sometimes a larger
brother or sister goes along with the
little fellows, but always quietly. The
coming and going does not disturb
the preacher, because it is part of
the service, and everybody, we think,
feels better to see the children and
to allow them to follow their own
inclinations about sitting in the seats,
walking in the aisles, going out to the
I front, or going to sleep.