The broad ax., 1925-05-09
oil. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE OLD
TIME TRAVELLING CORRESPOND
ENT FOR TIE BROAD AK, HAS AT
LASTPULLED OUT OF TEXAS AND
OTHER SECTIONS OF THE FAR.
SOUTH AND AT THE END OFLAST
WEEK HE BUSTED INTO ST. LOUIS.
MISSOURI.

Il Louis, Mo.-You are about to
agree that / have been going some in
NJ past 10 days, and before you can
LII scat" ] will have been in Chi
ago. and way down in Alabama when
III read this letter, and that will be
sanp some more.
is great thing to be able to get
orer this country, here and there and
.se what is going on among the PEG
oe. and note the progress and accom-
olshments. It will do your very soul
GOOD. and l don't mind telling you
that much. ! have seen many things
and Il expect to see many more, 50 let
# 90 at that 1t strikes me that when
I took my pen in hand to write you
few lines last week, I was in Houston,
Texas. or close TO there, but | think
was right there, the guest Of DR.. and
N.Y. I'll NJ Overton, and also visiting
tbe churches. Now see where I am
and where I have been.
# was Sunday morning in Houston
that I spoke for Rev. ]. R Burdett,
who was celebrating his 10th anniver-
sarv or something like that, and the
peoDle were proud OF what he had
done and what he was still doing. They
are going to have one more church
when the new building is completed
and I don't mind telling the world that
I told YOU 90 also spoke in the af-
ternoon and evening at the Antioch
Baptist church
had the pleasure Of visiting Hous-
ton College. and being the honored
guest Of President and Mrs. J. E.
Knox. I found the young people get
ting ready to hold the universe in one
hand within a short time They will
have nice complete sentences, using
the Fluctuations where they belong,
making the full stops, quarter stops,
and will charge on Greece and Rome
They will do honor to Demosthenes
and all them other big orators who
lived way back yonder. I have only
one question then to ask, What next?"
| want to congratulate DR.. Knox on
the good work he is doing to fit cur
young people. He is giving them full
Inspiration. He is man Of ability and
experience, and I am real proud Of
him and his work, and his wife is some
scholar also.
I regret to inform you that Mrs.
Overton continues in bad health and
We are all praying that she will soon
be restored to health. She is a won
derful woman, and devoted to her hus-
band. She has been BY his side all
these years, and we hope she will re-
main. 7 met Mrs. Florence Mcbride
Sledge. formerly Of Macomb, Illinois.
She visited the National Baptist con-
vention in Texas, and remained. She
got married, and the Lord gave her a
good husband NJ. w. D. Sledge is
one q the finest men I have met.
OFF from Houston to Beaumont,
where I spent a little time the guest
of Pr and Mrs. o. B. Charlton. DR..
Charlton was one more busy man. He
was putting half soles on teeth He
4 tooth, dentist-doctor and good
one at that His wife was at one time
teacher in the public school. but
now She has kindergarten Of her
own with three pupils. God bless her,
But let me here pause, and say TO
you' \ Vance Lewis, the noted lawyer,
paid the debt that we all must pay. He
mas gone to his long eternal rest. One
0y one we are passing out. Because
While in the city Of Houston, l learned
o. the death Of Mrs. Estella Smith,
"ho was teacher. / read about it
later in the Birmingham Reporter.
VINO will be the next?
from Houston I made my way to
ieSarkana, passing through Shreve-
port Ia, and there is where I learned
'hat Lawyer Charles M. Robinson had
a narrow escape in an automobile mix
up and his son who was right by his
ade had his head crushed and was
Nilled instantly. Percy Robinson, was
indeed fine young man, just in the
Preparation for a useful life, because
ne was vet in school, getting ready to
follow his father. to be an improve
ment on his father. Charles Stewart,
IT. tells me that unless a boy is an
Improvement on his father he has lived
n vain. He pointed out to me many
reasons why this should be, and ] told
rs father to pick up, and if he did not,
ills son would pass him before he was
lipe Tor the kingdom. The old man
I'M had some sickness lately.
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