The Danbury Reporter.
VOLUME XXXIII
F. G. SOUTHERN ANSWERED.
Delk Sunday School Teacher Writes
Of Flalsiioal Incident.
Delk, July 10. I noticed in last
week's Reporter, instructions from
Mr. F. (i. Southern, to Sunday
School Teacher, as to training
children. lie seems to be training
biit children in the lawsof the land
only, and not caring for God's law.
I want to u&k what harm is done
by going toSunrtay School. Chil
dren learn there the word of God
and his love towards them, while
thiMe who are out fishing, playing
card*. drinking liquor and all
other evil tilings, they are in ignor
ance of what Christ did for tliein.
Those who behaved so shame
fully at Flat Sh'>al were allowed
those privileges when they wow
boys. Had they been trained
right in childhood, they would
never have turned from it. lam
thankful to say we have no such
characters at our church. Every
body goes quietly and leaves quiet
ly I wish some could explain to
me, the unnecessity of Sunday
School. There is no one that can
mid feel that they are going by
(bid's word. I was raised by parents
who are lielivers in Sunday
School. Have been all thoir lives
and are tiil yet. 1 have been gor
ing to Sunday School a gooil por
tion of my life and if it over did
me any harm, I cannot see it but
can safely say it. has done me good.
1 do not regret the time I have
spent in Sunday School, but do
regret time 1 have lost.
Mr. Southern leaves the im
pression that we should be learning
the children the laws of the land
instead of (rod's law. What are
laws of land, nothing but a few
days imprisonment or perhaps a
few mont hs on the road for a great
crime, We teach our children
(iod's law and when they know
(Soil's law, they are not going to
disobey laws of land. Can a man
ob-.-y God's law and laws of land
nt one time? Yes, he can, but
will he do it? No he will not.
Can t« man lie a Christian and
vote for these liquor saloons at
one time? No ho cannot. Any
man who votes for that destructive
drink cannot be a Christian. He
may h&vo a good face, be up-to
date an I everything but he is not
H Christian; laws of land are made
by /nan, hut God alone made His
law and it stands forever. Punish
ment here ou earth is awful to
those who have it to stand but
what will God's punishment be to
all who do not obey Flis command
ments. Just think for a moment
of biting in burning fire forever.
O isn't it sad to know of so many
going in this direction. This
punishment not only lasts a few
days, or months and years, as it
does here, but is an everlasting
torment. 1 wish to inform you
we do not carry but one law book
to Sunday School and that is the
Messed word of God, "The Bible,"
That is nil the law we need. If
everybody would do as God says.
God's law is the law I wish to
oliey and want everybody to do
the same, but there are so many
will not. If every one would go
by God's law wo would have no
use f.>r laws of and kind here.
What does God say in Luke, 9:25:
He snys—For what is a man ad,
vantagod, if he gain the whole
world and lose himself or be oast
away. You who are lalwring for
this world's goods and not for a
brighter and better world above,
take this passage of scripture and
study it carefully. We know not
when our master is coming and
when ho does come, it is then too
late to pray. Thoro is tiino / for
nil Unties and why not pray before
the hour comes when it is entirely
too late. Christ suffered urul
died on the cross for our sins.
What kind of heart can some peo
ple have not to love him ? God says
in Luke 15.20, Notwithstanding
this, rejoice not, that the spirits
are subject unto you; but rather
rejoice because your names are
written in heaven. () if everybody
could say they hoped their nanu s
wore written in heaven. We do
not know but we have or some of
us have a hope of our names be
ing written there. What a bless
ed thought to us. Let's each and
every onp of you dear readers of
tho word of (tod, stijdy God's law
against the laws of land.
I hope Mr. Southern will turn
and teach his children Clod's law.
Sunday School Girl, keep your
good work going on. Some day
God will reward you for it,
I did not aim to stay so long,
but being so much interested on
the subject, I just kept going.
SUNDAYSCHOOL TEACH ER.
OUR TWO STAR SUBSCRIBERS.
Or. C. W. Joyce and Mr. James V.
Fagg At the Top Of the Reporter's
Roll Of Honor.
Dr. C. W. Joyce, of Wheatland,
Oklahoma, paid to July 1(5, 1911.
Mr. James M. Fagg, of Red
Shoals, paid to August 27, 11110.
The above two clever gentlemen
now have the distinguished honor
of occupying the highest place on
the Reporter's Roll of Honor,
being paid six and five years in
advance respectively.
The Reporter is very proud of
its honor roll on which ia trans
scribed the names of only those
who pay in advance. The names
of hundreds of some of the best
men anil women living are now,
writtpn on it.
PINE HALL.
Pine Hall, July 15.- The Sun
day School at Pine Hall has the
oldest teacher in the State. She is
old Mother Anderson, aged eighty
two years. Mrs. Anderson meets
her class regularly every Sunday
morning. So you see we never
get too old to work in the Sunday
School.
Miss Beulah Neal's address on
"Woman's Work in the Church
and Abroad" last Sunday night
was very interesting.
Mr. Hall Parish's lecture last
Sunday on the "Evils of Intem
perance'' was a masterly effort.
We are glad to see our young men
coming out and taking a stand
against the whiskey business. .
SUBSCRIBER.
Messrs. William Shelton, Joseph
Ashby, W. C. Branson, A. J.
Owens and Walter Booth were in
town Thursday and Friday.
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the kiidersigned, have
known F. J. Cheney for the last
15 years, and l>eieve him perfectly
honorable in all business t ran sac,
tions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his
firm.
WAUHNO, KINKAN & MAMVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Tolilo, O,
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the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75 cents per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
STOKES AND CAROL,LXA.
DANBURY, N.C., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1905
LETTER TO THE OLD AND YOUNG.
Regarding Sunday School and Sun
day School Workers.
Mizpah Route 1, July 10.
Mr. Editor :
I want to ask you for a little
space in your paper to say a few
words to the young people of our
community and also the old in
regard to our Sunday School as
we have two Sunday Schools in
our community and wo are trying
to have good ones and carry them
on right, but it seems like it is a
hard thing to do for we have got
all kinds of workers in our com
munity. We have some that are
working against our Sunday
School and some that are doing
all they can to build up their Sun
day School and now my friends,
why can't we all do that. We can if
we will set a determined resolution
to do so. Let's us all go to Sun
day Uohool andgofortliegoodof it
and for the good that we can do, and
let's not go just only for the fun
of it nor to make fun of it, nor to
see your girl, or your fellow just
as a lot of our young people of
this oommunity do. Let's all
go and take an interest in the
good work and try to urge the
little ones to do good and I am
sure that you will gain more by
going to Sunday School than you
will by going to see your girls and
the girls staying at home looking
for their fellow. Let's all go to
Sunday School and try to start a
band of Christian workers. We
want to have a Union Sunday
School and want every one to come
that possibly can and I am sure
that there arc not many that
want to go, but of course yon can
find lots of excuses if you want to,
but I don't see why you would
want any excuse in this good
work. T think it looks a lot nicer
to see a crowd of little boys and
girls going oijt to Sunday School
every Sunday, than it does to see
them at home laying around and
in all the meanness they can l)e
in. lam sure that yon cannot
raise your children to do a better
thing than to go to Sunday School.
Just think how would you like in
your old days to see some of your
boys in prison or on the gallows;
then you will be reaping the re
ward of your sowing, but you can
go to your county jails and your
State prisons and search them
there and J am sure that you will
not find many thero that were rais
np in Sunday School.
Are you raising your children
to the Bible or bottle; church or
stillhouse; Sunday School or bar
room? As you train them so will
they be, and now, ray friends, J
am sure that Sunday School is the
best thing you can raise them to.
It is not because we do not know
to do better, for we have got the
plain word of God to go by and I
think that you will find where it
says: "He that knoweth to do
good and doeth it not to him it is
sin and he that cometh of sin is of
the Devil."
Now, my friend, thero is not one
of us but what cometh of sin, but
let us do the very best we can and
that is all we can do. Since sin
entered into the world, its nature
has not changed, its tendenoy is
always towards destruction and
death and it pollutes the soul just
as the decayed part of an apple
infects the whole of it. The Bible
usos the the strongest language to
describe the horriblonoss of sin
and its consequences.
No poet or prose writer has ever
been able to unfold the withering
effects of Bin which aot upon the
soul like poison upon the body.
Now, my friends, lot's all organize
WINSTON-STUART TURNPIKE ROAD.
Gives Promise Of Being Worked Up
Before the Time For Marketing the
Next Crop ol Tobacco.
The Winston-Stuart turnpike
line, which, to begin with, will
consist of a road about ten miles,
in length, extending from the
southside of Sauratown mountain
through Quaker Gap. via Vade
Mecum Springs to the Shalli.w
ford on Dan river, gives promise
of distinct success. It will be re
membered th'it the survey was
made by the well-known surveyor,
Mr. F. H. Kelsey, who laid out
and constructed the wonderful
roads about Liuville and Blowing
Rock nnil also surveyed the Wil
kesboro Junction turnpike. It
will have a grade of about 11 per
cent, over which any locomotive
or trolley can run with ease and,
such a development is one of the
things in contemplation.
The rights of way are about all
secured and it is hoped that the
State may be induced to rush the
actual work upon the road with
its convict labor by the coming
fall. Strong effort will be made
to bring this about. All the State
has undertaken to do at present is
to grade the link of ten miles
through a mountaiuous section in
return for stock in the road.
The first part will run from
Capella to the Stuart road north of
Dan river, crossing the Sauratown
mountain through Quaker Gap,
the only gateway through the
mountain chain, and also crossing
the Dan rivor>awt with
roads leading to Stuart, Ya„ Mt.
Airy and Martinsville, Ya.
The roads north of the Dan
river and south of the Sauratown
mountain are already as good as
auy dirt roads in the Piedmont
section, but there is no road at
all through this river and moun
tain section. Consequently, by
tho building of this link, the dis
tance between that section and
Winston-Salem will bo shortened
about 15 miles and, furthermore,
over good roads, whereas at pres
ent the roads around the moun
tains east and west represent not
only a loss of 15 miles in travel
but they are also almost impassable
especially through the season
when tobacco is marketed.
It is expected that as soon as
the turnpike is built the roads
north and south of it will be made
oqually as good, either as public
roads or byway of the turnpike
itself.
Among the men who have inter
ested themselves in the project
which seems to bear abundant
promise of good, are A. H. Filer,
R. J. Reynolds, J. H. Sparks, J.
W. Slate, J. C. Tise, J. F. Miller,
Walter George, W. H. Reid, R.
Gorrell, J. K. NorHeot and T. J.
Brown. They are acting under a
charter granted by the last Legis
lature to the Winston-Stuart Turn
pike Company.
together and start a whole Union
of christian workers.
I will close wishing much suc
cess to the Reporter and its many
christian readers, that they may
suoceed in their good works, I will
close.
COW BOY.
FORCED TO STARVE.
B. F. Look, of Concord, I\y.,
says: "For 20 years, I suffered
agonies, with a sore on my upper
lip, so painful, sometimes, that I
could not eat. After vainly trying
everything else, I cured it, with
Buoklen's Arnica Salve." It's
great for burns, cuts and wounds.
At all drug stores; only2f>c.
Mrs. Joanna Boyles Encounters a
Large Blacksnake Answer to
"Roving Joe."
King Route 2, July 11.
Mr. Editor :
\\ ill you allow mo space for a
few words to answer "Roving
•Joe's" question, as he asks to know
where the shortest chapter was in
the Bible. 1 think you will find
that the 111 Psalms is the shortest,
it has two verses and 33 words. If
that's not correct, will some one
please correct it?
Hollo! No. 2, your letter was
just fine. \\ o are indeed glad
that you are not ready to bid us a
dieu yet awhile, for 1 don't see how
we could do without seeing you
pass every day. Hn, ha! 1 don't
think you will have the blues any
more, tor you look so comfortable
sitting hack under that large um
brella. So let us hear from you
again along. This route enjoys
reading your letters very much.
Wishing you much success in get
ting a fair Sunday School girl
for your partner.
Mrs, Joanna Boyles, going to
her lieu s nest, not long ago, found
that n large blacksnake had oc
cupied the place of the hen The
ugly old snake had ea'teu all the
eggs. Although, she succeeded in
killing the snake. It moasureil
about li feet. This kid wouldn't
tackle one that large.
What's tho matter with some of
our boys? They haven't been ii
Sunday School in several Sun
days. Boys, you don't know how
we miss you, your class was rather
siud-1 Sunday and also Sunday
week and we do hate to see it that
way. Boyo, lot's see if class No. ('.
can't be the largest class in school
next Sunday. It had to be divided
it was so large. Now. boys, please
don't let the girls beat you that
far. You can have as large a class
as they can if yon will all just
come out.
Preaching at Mt. (>live next
Sunday at 11 o'clock. Sunday
School at 9. Lot everybody come.
Hurrah! for Dog-Killer, we
think you are on the right line.
Prove to Timothy that the negro
has got a soul.
Now, Roving Joe, can you tell
me what and where the longest
chapter is, anil how many verses,
etc? Also how many times the
word "eternity" is used in the
Bible.
S. S. G.
STUART. VA.
Att'y S. A. Thompson purchased
yesterday a lot between the Pat
rick County Bank and Mrs. Ruek
er's residence from l)r. R. S. Mar
tin. Mr. Thompson will in the
near future erect an office building
on the lot.
Officer J. W. Staples is working
a gang of mon on the stroets this
week, making many neccessary
improvements.
Mess Via A: Stedraan are pre
paring to erect for Mr. W. H
Wimbish a very handsome anil
complete wind mill outfit on his
lot on Chestnut Avenue, consist
ing of« largo wnter tank and ob
servatory tower, with stoel spiral
stairway lending up to tho top of
the immense structure.
Mrs. Sarah Kesler still contin
ues very ill at her mothers home,
Mrs. S. F, Shelor, on Church
Street. Her brother, Mr. Robert
Shelor, of Buffalo Ridge, has l>een
at her bed side all the week. Her
friends and relatives have given
up all hope of her recovery.
Mr. W. 11. Flinchum, of Pied
mont Springs, was a visitor in
town Thursday. Mr. Flinchum
hns several boarders at his com
fortable home near the springs
this season.
NUMBEK 2.1
CONFEDERATE RE-UNION.
The People Of Stokes County Reques
ted To Meet At Danbury On Satur
day. August 12.
Peters' Creek, July JO.
To tho Confederate Veterans of
Stokes county:
My Dear Comrades:—About one
month from now we are called
upon to lay aside all of our domes
tic affairs and meet in Danbury
for the purpose of trying to per
fect an organization of what few
'of us that yet survive. We are
but a few, a remnant of the most
valiant soldiers that ever contend
ed against a foe of mighty odds
J and untold resources. We are a
J war-worn and battle-scarred rem
nant and we are so near the river
that we can almost hear the roar
ing of the waters. Therefore let
us, as we did in the heroic days
of 1861 to 1803 when our leaders
fell in battle and our ranks were
thinned by shot and shell, close up
our ranks by organizing, and when
we have passed over the river let
our sons and daughters step for
ward and perpetuate our organiza
tion ami continue to vindicate the
integrity of our lives and the ends
for which we so nobly contended.
The people are all requested to
come out on August 12th and aid
us in every way they can.
liespectfully,
JAMES A. LEAK.
jO. L. Pulliam Replies to F. G.
Southern.
i
Pink, July 10.
Mr. Editor:
It appears from the reading of
Mr. F. G. Southern's article in
the Reporter of last week that he
thinks crime is taught in Sunday
School and committed by its pu
puls. Now, as to the young man
he had reference to at Flat Shoal
the third Sunday in June, I cau't
say whether he is a Sunday
School scholar or not.
I have been attending Sunday
School ever since 1 was largo
enough to go and I never knew
crime taught nor practiced in Sun
day School. So I would like for us
to investigate the matter and see
whether Sunday School is the
origin of crime or not.
First. 1 would ask Mr. Southern
to go with me to the county jail
and see what per cent, of the in
mates arc Sunday School teachers
or pupils. Also, what per cent,
wore raised out of Sunday School
by parents opposing Sunday
School.
Then we will go to the chain
gang and see what we find there,
and then to the State prison and
call tho roll and see how it stands
there.
We will go to Winston on tho
20t.1i inst. and ask Mr. Hammons
where ho was educated and see
what he says.
Now, after making this investi
gation if we find that tho larger
per cent, of crime came from Sun
day School, then 1 for one say
stop Sunday School. But, on the
other hand, if the larger per cent,
originates outside of Sunday
School, then 1 say bring them in
to Sunday School.
I will just say that I have never
heard anything of interest from
! anyone not knowing anything of
j his subject, therefore Mr. South,
j erti can't possibly say anything
| against Sunday School for I think
: 1 am safe in saying that he was
I never in a Sunday School, not
| even to hear the roll called.
Wishing the Reporter much
' success, 1 am
Yours truly,
O. L. PULLIAM.