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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
+ WARNING ’ ♦
+ J. L. Braswell is not an au- ♦
♦ thorized agent of The Jeff er- +
•4- sonian Publishing Company. +
(A Savannah Lawyer.)
The Rev. Benjamin F. Keiley,
Bishop of Savannah, has a communi
cation in tlie Savannah Morning
News of Sunday, October 24, vio
lently condemning the recognition of
Carranza.
This “vicar of Christ” begins his
article with a mis-statement of fact
and ends it with a vindictive threat.
H-s whole communication is charac
terized by the jumbled ideas and the
famous reasoning common to those
churchmen who live on the earnings
of other people and no no real
thinking themselves.
The bishop objects to the official
recognition accorded Carranza by the
United States, in which eleven other
nations have followed, because the
bishop does not approve of the
“First Chief’s ’ religious notions,
particularly his attitude toward the
Roman Church. The bishop would
make religious belief in a foreign
ruler the criterion for recognition of
that ruler’s government by this
country; and on that theory the
learned churchman no douot would
have had the United States withhold
recognition of the Republic of China
because the President or China was
not of the bisnop’s creed.
The bishop then proceeds to
quote from the Constitution to prove
that the law’ should never interfere
with the free exercise of religion.
And as further proof of his theory
of the separation of Church and
State, “His Reverence” openly and
insolently threatens the President
personally with the power of the
whole Catholic Church, because for
sooth the President has refused to
let religion influence his actions of
state. Boldly he says the Catholic
Church “reserves to itself the right
of using other and strictly constitu
tional means for recording their dis
approbation.”
Perilaps the bishop does not stop
to think (if that term can be applied
to his mental processes) that it is
just such attempts by the heads of
the Catholic Church to dictate to
multitudes of voters how their “dis
approbation shall be recorded” that
is causing this country to wonder
how far this interference by the
Church in government is going.
The bishop quotes liberally from
the Constitution, and wants it clearly
understood that his threat against
Wilson is to be carried out by
“strictly constitutional means” and
not by “revolution.” But in regard
to the Constitution the bishop is ap
parently under the delusion that the
guaranties of this ancient document
in some way extend over the Mexi
cans too, and that the Constitution
has been violated because we have
forced Carranza on the Mexicans
“without the consent of the govern
ed,” —“a man whose pa.st career
shows that he has neither the will
nor the wish” to abide by the pre
amble of the Constitution.
Most Americans are willing to let
Carranza have the task of putting
down the insurrections in Mexico.
But the merits of the Revolution are
not in issue now, despite the bishops
efforts to inject them, it is true that
the Catholics have not favored the
Revolution ana the Revolutionists
have not loved the Catholics. For
this there is doubtless a reason—
there usually is for most things.
The bishop quotes from an article
on Mexico by Roosevelt which ap
peared last year in the Metropolitan
Magazine. If the bishop had read
THE JEFFERSONIAN
in the same magazine, a glimmer of
some of the causes of this friction
between priests and soldiers might
have penetrated his mind. Inis other
article was by John Reed, one of the
best knowm and most accurate of
wrnr correspondents, who spent sev
eral months with the warring armies
in Mexico. In his articles for the
Metropolitan Magazine Reed tells of
dining on some special occasion with
a group of Mexican soldiers. At the
head of the table sat a fat Catholic
priest, who, after imbibing several
glasses of wine, began loudly to re
gale his hearers with some of his
experiences. In a great spirit of
braggadocio and exhiliration he told
oi how he was to sleep that night
with a bride who was wedded that
day and of how he w r ould enjoy her
before her husband could claim her.
Leering and winking, he told of how
passionate Mexican girls were, and
asked his soldier-companions if it
were not so. But no smile crossed
their serious faces. Grimly they
looked at each, other and felt the
edge of their bayonet blades!
“LAWYER.”
REPORT ON LITERATURE, MIL
LER BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
First of all, rhe Bible, Book
of all books, God’s own Holy,
Precious Word, snould be not merely
read but Studiea, diligently, prayer
fully, humbly, constantly, were is
the Fountain Head of Revealed
Truth, Historical, Prophetic, Doc
trinal, Practical. Here we sha_. al
ways find Divine directions in every
uncertainty, doubt and perplexity,
light for our darkness, vvTsdom for
our ignorance, guidance for our
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ness, Comfort for our sorrow’, con
viction for our sins, gospel for our
salvation, balm for our w’ounds,
hope for our despondencies, and w’hen
we study it humbly we put our
hand in God’s and he will lead us
past the conflicts of time into the
fruition and glories of everlasting
life and a safe and nappy home up
in heaven. Let all men seek con
stantly unto this fountain of truth
above all others, and tney snail nave
the best that men can ask or heaven
give.
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Baptist papers: We recommend
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weekly, SI.OO per year. Also The
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All these are landmark Baptist
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people speak and lovers of truth will
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As a stump pqller, rock breaker
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monthly. The weekly 50 cents in
clubs of 10, the latter a large
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On abuses in Mission work we
recommend Watson’s Foreign Mis
sions Exposed, 25 cents. Ail may be
had of the Jeffersonian Publishing
Company, Thomson, Ga.
Read these papers and you will
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The Menace, Aurora, Mo., is a red
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Brother J. a. Scarboro, Summit,
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Let our people inform themselves
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Submitted by the Committee,
J. A. SCARBORO,
O. B. RUSTIN.
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