Christian Messenger. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 22, 1888 Page: 7 of 8
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CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.
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. New Boston, Texas, Feb. 13, 1888.
Bbo. Burnett :
We organized for regular worship
yesterday with thirteen members. J.
O. Lucas and Geo. King are our elders.
We will meet in a school-house until
we can build a house of worship, which
we expect to do in the near future.
When 1 moved here I did not know of
-a disciple of Christ nearer than twelve
miles of this place. I found two, how-
•ever, who had not been to church or
heard a sermon in seven years. Some
others have moved in tnd settled here
and others are coming. My manner
has been to go to a new place and go
to work, build up a congregation until
it becomes selfsustaining, and then leave
it in care of others. I have been call-
ing this missionary work, and did not
know the difference until I read A. J.
Bush’s communication to the Messen-
ger, in which I learn that I can not do
LETTER FROM A SISTER.
My dear sisters, did you ever think
when reading “keep your bodies, tem-
ples, clean,” of the full meaning of
these few words ? T often think when
I see a dear sister take ^ snuff stick,
wind it about in a bottle of fill hy, black
looking stuff, then place it in the mouth
which God has commanded us to keep
clean, can such a temple be inhabited
by our God? You know he has prom-
ised to dwell with us, in our hearts, and
has commanded us to keep the temple
clean, “mete for the Master’s use.” My
dear sisters if we defile the body, fill
the throat and lungs full of this ftlthy
snuff, can we keep the soul from con-
tamination ? You answer me, I can not
see why. But, O my sister, stop and
think! That bottle of snuff would buy
the orphan bread, the beggar shoes,
, , ... would help the poor widow to bear her
missionary work un ess somebody hires; bnr<Jen Qf e and 80r would
and sends me. Well, what can I do ?f___e____A____
Nobody has hired me. Nobody sent
me here, I came of my own choice. No-
body pays me for this work, and it is
therefore hot missionary—anti-mission-
ary. Will Bro. Bush, or some other
good missoniary man, tell us who hired
and sent Thos. Campbell, A. Campbell,
the Creaths, J. T. Johnson and a host
of others who went everywhere preach-
ing the word, building up congregations
and confirming the faith of the disci-
ples, in the beginning of this restora-
tion! Was their work anti-mission-
aTy I Was their work scriptural t If
such work was scriptural then, is it not
so now! If it is not according to, the
Scriptures now, it was not then, and
this reformation got off on the wrong
foot, and had better tub out and be-
gin anew. Will some progressive
scribe please pity our ignorance and
enlighten us on this point* or shall we
abandon the principles of the fathers,
and of the gospel, and for the love of
money, sell out to “the mother of har-
lots,” and become a miserable sect
among sects? Brethren, if I am not
mistaken, there is danger ahead ! Look
before you leap. If a society (not th*e
church) employs you to do a certain
work for a sum of money, who rewards
you for your labors ? Whom do you
serve ? The answer is easy. If you get
the amount of money you agree to
take, then you are rewarded, and should
not expect more in this world nor in the
world to come. “The love of money is
the root of all evil.” “Be not weary in
well doing, for in due season you shall
reap if you faint not.”
Your brother in Christ,
i. J. H. Lynch.
Longview, Texas, Feb. 11,1883.
Bro. Burnett:
Bro. Joe Harding is now preaching
at this place. Some few accessions up
to the present. The meeting increases
in interest and we hope for grand re-
sults. Bro. J. S Herring, of Dallas, an
humble, godly man has been with us,
and aiding in the meeting too. He left
to-day to begin a meeting at Wills’
Point We commend Bro. Herring as a
good preacher, good worker, and a zeal-
ous man. Bro. Joe and myself made a
flying trip to Dallas. Preached one
discourse at Wills’ Point—two added
to the congregation there. Bro. Ed.
Stirman was just boarding the train—
leaving Wills’ Point—as we got off.
He had been preaching at the Point a
week, one baptized. We were sorry
w© could not be with this >old soldier
more than the minutes to say “howdy”
and “good bye.” The church at Wills’
Pflint is alive and doing well. We hope
they may secure Bro. Herring to evan-
gelize Van Zandt county.
Jno. T. Poe.
pay for good reading for some poor sis-
ter or brother, would help to send the
gospel of salvation to some poor dying
sinner. Twelve of these bottles will do
one sister a year. Twelve dollars for
each sister who professes to follow
Christ and uses snuff—144 bottles! Can
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you imagine the good it would/ do ?
Then think of the suffering around us,
and of the little we do. Sisters, dare
we continue thus in the lusts of the
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flesh against our Father’s commands ?
I never realized the 111 thy ness of this
habit, until I helped to clean the neigh-
borhood church house l Many dear sis-
ters use snuff in church. O, how can
you worship God with your mind in
snuff! My dear sisters you may think
my language too strong, but 1 write
with all humility, believing that you
are willing to do all things for the good
of the cause of Christ, and for the good
of our children. Let me again ask,
How would you like to see that sweet
mouth of that dear child sullied by to^
bacco or strong drink ? Would you
not feel that your child was in danger
of being lost ? My dear sisters, we are
the mothers of the next generation.
Our children are to till the places of our
noble men—our fathers, husbands and
brothers. Do we*feel our fesponsibili
ties as we should ? Dare we raise our
daughters with the snuff, and many
other things forbidden ? Think, sisters,
l pray you, of these things ; view them
in their true light. How often we la-
ment our inability to do the good we
wish to do, never thinking of our not
only selfish habit, but really harmful
ones. If these few lines are accepted
as fit for publication, I may come again.
Your sister in Christ,
N. E. M.
was a hired servant in my wife’s family,
and from my father-in-law, Mr. James
Snyder, I get my information. He says
Wheeling was sober, industrious, sav-
ing, and universally liked. He once
said to him, “Mars James, you might
pin me down by the seat of my breeches
on a flat rock in the middle of the street,
and I would make a living.”
On one occasion he came to Mr. Sny-
der with a thrilling question, that many
in these days can not ^appreciate. His
wife and child were still in slavery. He
had saved enough money to buy one of
them, but which one ? Finally it was
decided that as his boy was increasing
in value, and hie wife decreasing, that
he had better buy his boy first. He did
so. Mr. Snyder counted his money,
and he says it was nearly all in dimes
and five cent pieces—over $500. Think
ye moralists of the toil and the hope of
such a man’s life! He afterwards
bought his wife. What a sketch for the
novelist! What a text’ for the preach-
er! • -
Can you not re-read that little item
with thrilling interest? Wheeling Gaunt
fist bought himself, then his son, then
his wife. What a training those years
and years of toil and labor upon his
mind and heart. The Lord has blessed
him in his old age with wealth. He, as
a faithful steward, devotes it to his race.
4he hand that pens this tribute to him
was “southern,” thumb, palm and all.
Every beating pulse throbbed in union
with the “boys in gray.” I now see
what I did not then, that slavery of a
fellowman was wrong, radically wrong.
I have given you a chapter in its histo-
ry. Truth is stronger than fiction. Is
not Wheeling Gaunt a grand old
hero ?
; R. B. N.
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SA YIJSOS ABOUT WOMEN.
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A COLORED HERO.
The following item strayed into the
the “General News” department of the
Advocate recently:
“W. Grant, a wealthy colored resi
dent near Xenia, Ohio, has deeded his
property, valued at $50,000, to the
Wilberforce university, the leading col-
ored college of the state.”
Wheeling Grant deserves more than
a passing notice. I never knew him,
but I know his history. “Befo’ de war”
he lived in Carrolton, Ky. He was the
slave of Mr. Gaunt and took his name
from his master. By carefully hoard-
ing odd pennies, made at odd times, he
bought feimself. He peddled frtiit to
the steamboat passengers who then,
before the railroads, waited at Carrol-
ton for boats bound to Frankfort, Cin-
cinnati, or Loui8villo. Hiawife, Mandy,
scence of these by splendid architecture,
fine pulpit oratory and operatic music!
It is like unto a foolish man who de-
siring to make lt)ng journey, by rail,
and seeing an elegant Pulman palace
car standing on a side track, with su-
perb upholstery,and elegant equipment,
howbeit with no locomotive attached,
entereth therein and composeth himself
on a cushioned seat, thinking the ele-
gance of the coach will dispense with
the necessity of an engine. Verily I
say unto you, he would have done more
wisely had he taken a gravel train with
a k>cpmotive thereto, if anxious to reach
his destination. ‘He that hath ears te
hear let him hear.’ ”
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Ray - Burnett Debate.
I wish Adam had died “with all his
ribs in his body.—Boucicault. 7
To a gentleman every woman is a
lady in right of her sex.—Bulwer.
A handsome Woman is a jewel ; a
good woman a treasure.—Saadi.
What is woman? Only one of natpre’s
agreeable blunders.—Cowley.
A fashionable woman is always in
love with herself.—Rochefoucauld.
Women detest a serpent through pro-
fessional jealousy.—Victor Hugo.
A passionate woman’s love is always
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Handsome women without religion
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There was never yet a fair woman
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Between a woman’s “yes” and “no” I
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Oh, woman ! thou wert fashioned to
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sung.—Jean Ingelow.
Ideas are like beards—men never
have any until they grow up, and wo-
men none at all.—Voltaire.
Trust not a woman when she weeps,
for it is her nature to weep when she
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Burnett, Thomas R. & Wilmeth, C. M. Christian Messenger. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 22, 1888, newspaper, February 22, 1888; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth922051/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.