Our Field by Jos. Clarke

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 1, 1877

Our Field.

By Jos. Clarke

Not being a land speculator, no one will accuse me of interested motives in speaking of Texas. Truly it must be conceded that it has a beautiful and pleasant landscape, a delightful climate, and much of it a fertile soil. It has a good drainage, and lies up out of water. The water is not always good, as at the north, but it is generally tolerable, and in many localities good.

The laws of Texas are as favorable to good men as they are in any State in the Union; and its people are generally hospitable and generous. The mixed races, Spanish, Mexican, and Indian, with the black race, cannot be said to be very hopeful; but the freedmen are an exception to this, as many of them are devotedly pious, constant, and industrious. Often we see them possessors of magnificent farms; and some of them are as virtuous, honest, and good as the best of their neighbors. The strength of liberal principles is felt here, and old fogy ideas and memories of former aristocracy are fading from the public mind.

Railroads and cities are being built, and the markets of the world are open to Texas commerce. Here is an open field for the Christian and the philanthropist. Jos. Clarke.