About nine years ago I visited Texas
for the first time and noted the state of
public morals and found all the new towns
in a wilt!, reekh-ss, unsettle,l condition.
Fort Worth had about HMMM) people and
it seemed to me the devil was running
tin- whole business, for the Sabbath was
a gala, day and the saloons were all open
ami the billiard balls were cracking and
the f-tro Banks in full blast and Bogardtis
was shooting pigeons in the suburbs anil
the church bells rang feebly ami few and
they had just furnished a four-story jail
that, was 2tM) feet long and wasn't half big
enough, they said. But the devil don't
inn the business now. Gooti men and
women banded together, and more of
them ki-jit coming and churches were
built and Sunday schools established anti
the Y. Al. A. Itt-cune a power anti
they drove the devil out and now it is
an orderly. God-fearing city. Young men
who are dissipated and reckless cart- noth
ing about the morals of a town, but when
men of families who are raising up chil
dren around them move to a new place
want a Christian morality for thvir
children's sake, if nothing else. A man
may have no religion, but if ho has chil
dren h<- wont settle in a. Godless town.
