FROM THE SOUTH. TRAVELS OF MR. HEARNE. SHERMAN, TEXAS, Feby. 24, 1888.

FRIEND LAMKIN."Pursuant to a promise you exacted of me, I send you a few brief jottings of my trip, etc., though I fear it will not be very edifying to your readers, but you must bear the blame.

First, I must express my great joy and satisfaction at the surprising religious awakening and Pentecostal ingatbering that Lee’s Summit has had since I left home: my heart fairly bounds at the thought, that when I reach home I shall have the happy greeting of so very large a number of my neighbors and friends, who were lately numbered with the world and non-professors, but now bright and happy with us, rejoicing in the delightful service of our Lord and Master.

Leaving home Thursday night, Jan. 26,, I had a pleasant ride over the Missouri, Pacific, reaching St. Louis in good time next morning. I spent the day there, and that night was joined by my daughter Maggie, who had been on an extended visit to Kentucky, and we boarded the Iron Mountain train at 8 P. M. for Little Rock, arriving there on time at 9 A. M. Saturday morning, receiving a most joyous welcome from my oldest brother, F. P. Hearne, Sr., and his lovely and interesting family. My stay with them of over two weeks, including three sabbaths, fleeted quickly by, and was a time of unalloyed pleasure, being really the first visit I had ever made them in all my life, and I shall ever recur to it as a bright spot in by life, like unto a fertile oasis in a mighty desert.

Little Rock is a city of some thirty thousand inhabitants. I do not consider it at all pretty, as the streets are very narrow, with but little paving, plank walks, or macadam; but the soil (if there be any) is so near all sand that it does not get much muddy, and they are well supplied with street-cars. Of the people I cannot speak in terms of too much praise; I don’t think you can find better on the continent, the large majority being church-goers, and I saw few indications of vice or immorality, rarely ever meeting a policeman, and the few I did see looked to me as much like strangers as I felt. In company with some other visitors, we called on Governor Hughes at the State-House, and had a mast pleasant half-hour’s interview. He is indeed a social and very unassumnig and affable gentleman,

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