Walking Tour

While walking around Houston I discovered a series of quotes embedded into the paving of the sidewalks over several blocks. This one particularly caught my eye, from a Houston newspaper. It reads:

It is a source of much astonishment and of considerable severe comment upon the religious character of our city, that while we have a theatre, a court house, a jail and even a capital in Houston we have not a single church. The people seem to have forgotten that ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation.’

The Morning Star, 1839

The last part of the quote is from Proverbs 14.34

How times have changed. There is now a church on almost every corner!