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PEARSON'S PAPPP r '4 (formerly The Foul-Killer) Volume XII. Boomer, North Carolina, February, 1923. Number 9. Pearson's Paper PUBLISHED MONTHLY v ' . -BY THE JGYCRAFTERS BOOMER, NORTH, CAROLINA lames Larkm Pearson -Editor JUST TALK patter muclu But I feel sorry for a man who can't enjoy any thing more elevating and refined Just as a starter for this is-; Lnafci iiiikfevishmes I used sue, maybe I might . as well tell j to cut in The Fool-Killer. Of you how the new paper has BeenJ course when I was younger and received so far. Here are the wilder than I am now I enjoy- two first letters that reached me j ed being a monkey and liked to - SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single subscription, one year, 40 ct8 In Clubs of Pour orjnore, 25 cts a . - - - .... .. -- mm mm . f Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the posfcofflce at Boomer, N. C, urideryihe act of March 3, 1879. -INSTRUCTIONS When you send in clubs it is not necessary to wrwe long tewers. j. correct list of names and addresses, Mth money order or check to cover same, is enough. It is best to use my printed order blanks, a supply of which will be sent on request. If you have something important to condense it all you can and write a separate sheet of paper. jmber I am very busy, and it takes lots of time to read long let ters, to say nothing of answering them. I would like to write personal letters to all of you friends every lit tie bit, but it is impossible. If vou fail to cret the naner within a reasonable time, let me know, but do it in a friendly way. Don't kick and raise a fuss, for I am doing toe , 1 A. T V say, it on Rem with an expression of opinion on the fcbange: . I enclose money order for $1.00 for some copies of ie January issue of "Pearson's Paper." I want -to dis tribute them among Friends and Brothers in the Truth, and I am pret ty sure they wjU bring you new sub scribers, , I had read your article, "My Letter to You," only half through when I got down ou knee and thanked God for the new weapon; He was giving- Us through you. You will have an interest in the prayers of most of the Truth people who read that article. AVERY BRISTOW, Route 1, WiisonviUe, Nebraska As I have received one copy of "Pearson's Ptfper,w and as you ata ed that The FoOl-Killer died Pec- ember 3Ut 1922, and you put out your paper, and as ou claim that you have cpait being a monkey and have turned to being a man, all that we want is our money, so send it in at once $1.35 which I sent you for have the lolks laugh at my cap- ers. JBut i am getting more civilized in my old ageand think it is time to look at Hfe's pro blems in a more serious light. Especially is this" true since I came into possession of a Light that I didn't know anything $bout at first. I will probably Sot make such a ttg noise now I made while bemg a monkey,j t the chances are I will do ore mod and set ntore, real satisfaction lout of it And I shall hope to keep all the more intelligent of my old readers and get others like them. If I weed Cd, U :JHP- - 7 If mv newsnaner career causes veTy best I can. . . . ' J a lfe of subswn-rotiona to ' The Fool- hn 4 tA Vnwttm and twn otyi rwr- JAMES LAKKIN PEARSON 7 ' "7 ' I "v V " ,rT , . Boomer, - - North Carolina. CtJ ib very sad when any man must The clanging hand-cftffs on submis sive hands; The heavy weight of strong resisting steel, j The cruel clutch of cold confining bands. Killer. Now, Mr. Pearson, we ttm.ed -!' all, I Woul&'like to be ousiness, ana x am going to see a there is any remedy if yon dont send it in, as I have the check for o re LESTER COCHRAN, Route 1, king kind, perhaps it fust, as well. I want to be tiresome to any and there isn't any law to pibopte read this paper if don't want to. m a states couldn't change him. He can't give any reason for. be ing a Democrat except that he juot x6, itfiuxuiat settles it. . if he happens to be born into a Re publican family, or into a Bap tist or Methodist family, it"ie the same always the same. XjJever any change and neveu any reason for staying where he is. Just a fkced habit, and not enough mental vitality to break away from it. He is bora in, a rut and stays there to titer end of his days. And he will fight anybody that dares to sug gest that he ought to get out of his mental rut and look around some. r a As a general rule the man wh sometimes jchdnges his views is more of a thinker than the mas who never changes. Not ak ways, but generally speaking It does sometimes happen that men of good sound reasoning powers get through life without much visible change in their mental outlook. I hardly know whether such people are f ortH Jiate or not?. .Maybe they are IBut tiey probably miss a ipeod deal of the joy that comes only1 from discovering new roads tar But hand-cuffs cannot hinder sparing minds; uTiere's something worse that holds the race in thrall; 1$ is not steel, but ignorance, that )!9ie' brain-cuff is the very worslif of all. : James Larkin Pearson. NEXT ISSUE ! ! ! The' next iesne of this paperthe Marcji issue- wiU be given oveir al most entirely to one big subject: THE AND THE RANSOM. What did the human race LOSE by the fall of Adam? What did it GAIN "fey the Ransom Sacrifice of Jeeus? In other words, what was the object or purpose of Jesus Christ's coming into the world? This is alive subject, and the March will create a sensation. It will all the preachers backed up in a corner. Don't miss it, dnd ddn't let any of your friends mis it. Go after the folks and get everybody to snb eoribe. Let the big clubs roil in. known as & sane and levelhead ed thinker and reasoner. I would Hke ts have it said of me that I applied ?ery test of rea- sense to ail Questions that came to my at- That's the first &&e&m to tfeel tentiofi for settiement. Not ttiat Shu: J O I Jt ,;v. .... I am certain to be exactly right every time. Of course not I am no more certain to be always right than dther thinking men. We all make mistakes. But the difference between a thinker and style of the paper. Pretty well balanced, I will say. One man thanking God for the change and the other man mad about it. One sending me a dollar for a'bundle of that . ... .. f -t . .-" . " - ' issue, and the other calling fori one who-does not think is this his money back and threatening to do something terrible to me I don't send it. Well, of course I would like to please ev erybody, but knowing that to be impossible, I suppose there is no the thinker uses his mind and reaches his conclusions by a pro cess of reasoning. He is always able to give -a reason for what he believes.. To43e sure, his rea son may not always satisfy oth- use to shed any briny tears over! ers, but it does at least satisfy one man s oisapprovai. Jie is the only one so far, and there have been several of the other kind. So I am perfectly happy. My wife has volunteered to write j Mr. Cochran a very nice letter in which she expressed her re grets that he liked me better as a monkey than as a man. Them's my sentiments too, and I some how attach more importance to the position taken by my friend Bristow and others of his kind that I have heard from. The, travel On cnanges jus mmci the other hand, the fact that a man does chano views is not sufficSent piof of his smartness. That old saying is There are who haven't to any thing long at a time. They just drift, and never get safely an chored anywhere. That kind oM a fool cannot give you any mora reason for changing than the other kind can give for not changing. I like to see a man stand pat when he has good rear son for it, and I like to see him. change when there is sufficient " cause for change! But in eitfi er case, I want him to give me a good reason for it. There is the test. Give a reason. Andr that's what I always try to, do. he is advancing step by step as the light is given. Which is the proper way. But the man who has not trained himself to think and reason about things what does he do? Why, he just takes whatever happensto be nearest at hand, and lets it go at that. If he is born into a Dem- letters of approval make me feellocratic family he is a Democrat, so good that one Uttle Mck don't and aH the arguments in forty himself. If, at some later time, he gets more light on the sub ject and finds it necessary to change or modify his views, .air When it comes to the pass that right. He is still a thinker, and I can't give a good sensible Tea- son for the faith that is in me. I shall get out of the newspaper business and try to remain very quiet. I wonder what we mean whe we talk about reason, anyhow ? What is reason? Each man has his private understanding of something that he" calls reason, and he always interprets it tie V
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