The broad ax., 1923-09-15

list COnNCHI on IN Los angeles. III
you recall l told you that it was GO
ing to be a great big meeting and bless
your soul honey it is all that | told
you it would be and even a little
more. 1t has been one more great
big meeting and one Of the greatest
in the history of the Baptists.
Here | am way out here in Cali
fornia, and this is what they call
jumping from the Atlantic to the Pa
cihc. and have made if, from New
York to Washington, to Louisville,
KY, to Nashville, Tennessee for a
few hours, and then to New Orleans,
La, where l spent two days before
making the fatal jump across to the
place where / am today and it would
be interesting to you to know just
about the jump, and since it would /
suppose ! will have to let her go.
In New Orleans spent the time
with Rev. B. G. Dawson, the proud
est walking preacher in all this coun-
try, and man of brains and power,
and enjoyed very much my stay
there. / shall never forget the good
things while there. | had the pleas
ure Of getting around meeting friends
and looking at the town in New
Orleans. Among the friends / called
to see Mrs. Gertrude Gates, and then
to the home Of the Porches, and then
on to see the other part of the world.
But bright and early Saturday
morning j was at the station to re-
ceive that new or special coming in
at the L. e. N. stable to be switched
over to the Southern Pacific stable,
prior to starting.
l will not be able to discuss all the
details, but we made it to that point
and the special carriage was made
up Three standard Pullman bed
cars, FIVE tourist bed cars, / day
coach, | baggage car, observation
parlor saloon car and this is what we
had. l was assigned to bed lower 9.
Among the leaders on the wagon
were DR.. P. James Bryant, of At
lanta, Ga, DR.. J. N. Nabritt, president
of the Georgia State convention; Viii
liam H. Steward, editor of the Ameri-
can Baptist; c. H. Parrish, president
Of Simmons University; DR.. H. X.
Hill, of Florida, and President Brown,
of the Florida Baptist convention;
Dr. G. p Mckinney, Of Florida, and
there were others from Kentucky.
one from Ohio, and was there rep
resenting the U. 9. A.
Promptly at 1850 that old iron
horse just let loose two times and
we were off for three days ride. l
forgot to tell you that they had a
full crew eating car in charge of d.
{. Marshall, steward l could men
ton the walters, for l have their
names, and the names Of the men
who were on the bed cars, but that
will not do this time.
just to think Of it, it was sched-
uled to run from New Orleans to
Houston, Texas without a stop, only
ror oil, water and to change horses.
One horse was not strong enough to
pull US all the way. He had to stop
10 rest.
That old fellow did run. We
reached Houston about II o'clock,
found. DR.. IT. v. Overton there to see
us go through. | will not have much
10 say about that, because our first
stop was San Antonio. Texas, and it
was a nice stop there, believe me,
money. FIVE hours were spent in the
Alamo city. Some OF the ministers
preached III the churches. There was
only one church there belonged to
me National Baptist convention and
the Rev. J. II. smith, from Column
Dus, Ga, preached the sermon there,
and short talks were made by many
others in the party ms text was
selected from It's. 46:7. 1t was in
deed a powerful sermon. Or. smith
Is an able, preacher and a scholar. he
made good impression tor the con
vention, and It was an opportunity
lor the people Of San Antonio to see
tne real convention. There we're two
Or three other trains that followed.
The next stop was made at FL
3aso, reaching there at II O'Clock
londay morning, we remained in the
ity until 9 O'Clock at night. Many
# the people went over to Mexico.
see for the first time Mexican soil
nd they were impressed with the
iany beggars on the street. 1--WE
ave never seen SO many beggars
ince We were born" was the general
erdict.
Riding was continued, and about 2
clock Tuesday night we rolled into
lie station at Los Angeles, and it
eemed that the whole population Of
$500 ~.,k a., 60 sc come