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A MONTH IN TEXAS
Our Editor Talks of Western Trip
FULL, fair month in the Lone Star
Empire—that has been my experience.
And the encl is not yet. Texas always
makes me tingle. Its spirit stirs me
and its bigness broadens me. The tall
timbers of the East, the broad rice and
cane Helds of the South, the black lands
of the middle and the North and the
cattle scampering over the wide plains
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of the West —with four millions of people of uev
ery tribe and nation,” marching' in excited bat
talions to the music of progress and power —that's
Texas! But no man can ever describe it to the
man who has never seen. For Texas, and her peo-
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Rev. Samuel Chadwick, of England, who is now supplying at the Baptist Tabernacle, Atlanta.
pie, as no other state in the Union, it takes “see
ing” to make “believing.”
The Fourth of July at McKinney.
It was patriotism at the solid town of McKin
ney —the capital of Collin, the banner prohibition
county 7 in the state.
I left Georgia just in time to reach there for a
big county Submission Rally on the nation’s birth
day. . Dr. E. E. King, the popular pastor of the
First Baptist Church, whom I have known and
loved for a dozen years, smiled on me a benediction
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of welcome at the depot. A magnificent crowd
gathered in the court house where a county organ
ization was formed for the purpose of conducting
a vigorous campaign, getting out the vote and mak
ing the majority large. Prominent in the organi
zation was Luther Truett, a lawyer of sterling Chris
tian character and a brother of the famous Dallas
preacher, George W. Truett. ,
“Fellow citizens of Texas,” I said, “this is the
4th of July, 1776. We are building a government
today. We could get along without the United
States of America, without the State of Texas, with
out the county of Collin and without the municipal
ity of McKinney. But we come together in the or-
ganization of these different forms of government,
surrendering certain personal liberties for the com
mon good and paying our taxes like honest men
to sustain a government for the protection of life,
liberty and property. In the government we are
building today we must allow all business that will
build the citizen and bless the community, and shut
out everything that will hurt the citizen and mar
the peace of the community. By this standard, fel
low citizens, we must forever shut out the whisky
business from the government that we build on this,
the 4th.of July, 1776.”
This was the basic thought in my speech on the
“Glorious Fourth” at McKinney.
Two Conversions on Sunday.
Sunday, July 5, was another birthday—the day in
which two new lives were born into the kingdom.
I spoke in the beautiful new church in the morn
ing, whose walls were a rest to the eye and whose
people were a comfort to the heart. The Lord was
there and two conversions occurred —one boy of
sixteen who came up on the new interurban car
and was baptized before returning home that aft
ernoon —-and the other, a young married man who
came to church without hope and went home
presenting the beautiful picture of a young husband
and wife united in Christ.
“Man or Monkey?”
1 was greatly delighted to find Dr. Hiram A.
Boaz, President of the great Methodist school, the
Polytechnic College at Ft. Worth, in McKinney
for Sunday. I had remembered my visits to his
great institution last winter with abiding delight.
I called him “King Hiram” and he called me
“Georgia.” And—poor man!—the people say we
both look sorter like Tom "Watson and each other,
though I think we are both better looking than
Tom, and inasmuch as brilliant Tom bitterly fights
the spotless William J. Bryan and the Democracy
that bore him, I think we both have better judg
ment. Anyway, it was agreed that Dr. Boaz and
T should speak together to a big union rally at the
court house Sunday night, but before that time he
should get the folks ready by giving them, at the
M. E. church his inimitable lecture, “Man or Mon
key?”
And my! It was a gem! Philosophy that
knocked Darwinism into the middle of the century
that will never dawn; wit that held his audience
always refreshed and expectant; and reli
gion, sense and eloquence that stirred and
lifted and inspired! Every boy and girl
in America ought to hear that lecture. It
would make them want to quit being monkeys and
begin to be real men and women. We had a big
crowd at the court house Sunday night and in addi
tion to the speeches from the Methodist and Bap
tist “booze fighters” that were said to look alike,
Mr. H. A. Ivey of Sherman, Secretary of the
Democratic Prohibition Submission Committee, came
in between cars and gave some “rainbow touches”
concerning the campaign.
While in McKinney I was a fortunate guest in
the home of Mr. and Airs. J. P. Crouch, a grand
old couple who love God and His cause and who
make their means and their influence count for
limo and eternity.
Next week I will give the progress of the battle
that has ended at last in victory. W. D. U.
Aii Italian captain recently navigated his ship
up the Tiber, from Ostia to Rome, in order to attract
attention to the necessity of dredging the river and
developing the old port at its mouth. He touched
ground several times, and had to wait till the rain
raised the water in the river before he could return
to the sea. The harbor at Ostia was not very good
even in the days of the Caesars, but modern engi
neering skill might find away to prevent it from
filling up with silt.
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Contracts for furnishing single and double teams
to the city of Boston were recently awarded to a
woman. Her bids, tendered in open competition
with men, were by far the lowest submitted, and
she demonstrated her ability to fulfil the obligations.
The award was popular, for the uniformity of the
figures submitted by the men gave color to the
charge that an agreement had been made among
them to maintain a certain price. The woman made
i her own figures independently, and won.
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