Letter from Lilly Smith to President Harry S. Truman with Attached Newspaper Clippings and Pamphlet
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708 Franklin St.
Vancouver, Washington
To the President of the United States,
Nov. 16, 1945
Dear Mr. President: The doings of the President of the United States are
generally exagerrated when in print: I am enclosing a newspaper clipping
telling of the action of the Baptist General Convention, recently, in re-
gard to poker-playing and liquor-drinking. When you fell heir to the Pres-
idency, I thanked God that we need not see a picture of the President of
the United States sitting at his desk holding a cigarette in his fingers.
Re- the clipping:I am an old-fashioned Presbyterian. My thought of a
poker-player is associated with men wearing slouch hats, smoking smelley
pipes and sitting beside foaming beer-mugs.
It costs something to be a servant of the most high God. But is it a
loss or a gain?
If "He that taketh not up his cross etc" does not pull hard enough,
there is the: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no fèesh while
the world standeth. --Not to get a"degree" but to "press toward the mark".
My husband was a Baptist and I have set Baptists "on a pedastal", regardless
of modern ideas as to "liberty"for a church-member.
Being mindful of the admonition in I Cor.8:2--If any woman think that
she knoweth anything, she knoweth nothing yet as she ought to know; I humb-
ly submit this communication
Sincerely,
TRIMAR LIER
Dice Smith
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