Old Progress Quotes

When I leave this earthly home and go up to God to dwell, someone will look on the heaped up grave and whisper, She tried to do well.

~ Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds

I had a love affair with life, and as is the custom, I will lose, but will regain a greater love with my heavenly Father.

~ Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds

Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health.

~ Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds

The Klan as an Order stands behind Pure Womanhood and it is an inspiration to look into the face of one of your sex occupying the sacred desk and administering the Word of God to this people.

~ James Brice Klan

I'm proud to have been the son of so great a woman.

~ Reverend Sidney E. Slaton

She was only a dew drop that sparkled a short while under the brilliant rays of heaven's sunlight.

~ Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds

If you can keep alive in your heart the spirit of cheerfulness, the love of the wonderful, the sweet amazement of happy thoughts, the challenge of service, the lure of tomorrow and the joy of today, you will never grow old.

~ Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds

To be a good pastor one must have the wisdom of a Solomon, the intuition of a Newton, the patience of Job, the thinking faculties of an Einstein, and a compassion likened unto the Son of God.

~ Reverend Sidney E. Slaton

We most respectfully submit that the word Man with reference to a human being is a generic term, and as used in the Holy Scripture, and constitution and the other confessional statements of our church as no reference to sex, but should be construed to, and does, in fact, include the human being whether male or female. (1921)

~ Reverend E.b Mceuen