Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — A FEW PRESS NOTICES. [ARTICLE]

A FEW PRESS NOTICES.

Rev. Jas. Meads of Chester, delivered a lecture on temperance to an appreciative audience. The speaker sustained his reputation as a brilliant platform talker. We believe him to be among the very foremost platform orators in his specialty now before the public in this country —Ava Citizen. Rev. Jas. Meads is still quite young but there is no rubbing it out, as the saying goes, but he is immensely above the average for ability. It was a positive pleasure the other night to enjoy the accuracy of bis statements, the smooth and fluent speech and the fine eloquence, rising at times to the dignity that characterizes the genuine orator, of his fine lecture on John Brown —Ava Citizen. Everyone present appreciated the eloquency which characterized the delivery of the lecture and the excellent lessons which Rev. Meads drew from the life of Wendell Philips, this country’s greatest reformer—Chester Tribune.

Rev. J. L. Meads, who preached the baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of Bryan Academic and Collegiate Institute in the opera house last Sunday morning, is said by competent crities to have preached the best sermon ever heard in BryanBryan (Tex,) Pilot. Rev. Meads will lecture at Ellis opera house in this city, Friday, Sept. 11.