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8 THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 2, 1S93. A Reply to the Rev. (i. W. Mathews. Editor Her ald : There is nothing the intxlligcnt Amer ican citizen values more, as a citizen, than the liberty of conscience his fore fathers braved the terrors of the un known sea to secure to him. These rights were- first called in question in our little town in the fa?l-o£lS90, when a visiting evangelist, in tire excitement of a religious revival, hurled his- phil ippics broadcast through the town at such of our citizens asdificred from his interpretation of what constitutes a Chris tian life. Resenting, as did many of our citizens, the unwarranted and intrusive attacks of the clergy on the private lives and views of those not in any . way under their jurisdiction, I wrote for the Her ald an article, signed E. L. It., in which I incidentally referred to Dr. Tiffany of New York, whom I had the pleasure of listening to the previous summer, as an example of the higher type of the mod ern orthodox minister whose conception of a minister’s work is so little in accord with the aggressive policy of the rural evangelist of this section. I am informed that the Rev. G. \V. .Mathews, in a recent sermon, arraigned me for misrepresenting,in this article.Dr. Tiffany’s position regarding certain amusements, which are designated in the vocabulary of the elect as ‘‘worldly.” Regretting that the reverend gentle man should have impeached my voracity under circumstances that afforded,to me no equal opportunity of defense, I am constrained, as the article is my vindica tion, to give it again for publication. It is as follows: “There are divers religious beliefs held through the length and breadth of the civilized world; many differing radically in creeds, others of like creeds, but dif fering in church decijdine; while all chow' in greater or less degree, the marks of evolution from one common source. In the large cities where the conditions arc most favorably for intellectual and social development, all religious institu tions reach a more generous plane, placing more emphasis on attaining a high moral standard than an adherence to the letter of creeds. It is in small towns, remote from the great centres of tho.ught and progression, that church de- cipline becomes arbitrary,and individual liberty of conscience is restiicted by the preacher. Indeed, so great js the i nfluence of edugjlij^- ana habitat, that the sermons of the great and good Dr. Tiffany, of New York, might be considered as heret ical by a zealous evangelist of • South Georgia. In our live little town nil good citi zens have one thought in common, they all desire her present prosperous growth. All have some earnest religious belief in which is incorporated a moral code that Is tho germ of civilization and its preser vation. This principle of right and wrong is recognized by all; no man can lie, steal, client, or even be hoggishly selfish, without paying the penalty of universal condemnation. Rut from this point there naturally follows more or less divergence of views, notably reflecting different forms of amusement. Three of our orthodox churches have either a tacit or definite interdict against dancing and the play ing of cards. Two other denominations having pastors and holding regular serv ices, besides Jews, Unitarians, and liber als or lion-church members, find them pleasant and harmless entertainment. Now shall either body presume to dic tate to the other in what is an honest difference of opinion? Assuredly not, 'and any crusade such as has been, and may be again, attempted against the quiet, orderly pursuit of these and like amusements, will fail in its aim and hurt the cause of true religion. It is unfortunately,very easy to mistake fanat icism for piety, and creeds for Christian ity.” 1 beg first to call the attention of the intelligent and unbiased mind to the fact that in the above, I made no reference icfiatecerto Dr. Tiffany 3 * views on any ob ject I never heard him refer to the amuse ments under Mr. Mathews ban, although his congregation contained, as do all the notable churches, good men and lovely Christian women whose social life in cludes dancing, card parties, and attend ance at the theatre. I do not know how much importance he attached to the in ternal church discipline of his denomi nation. Such matters bring of man’s making, liable to change and therefore not a necessary adjunct to the soul’s growth, lie left, as far as my observation went, to be administered by such of the clergy as have minds suited to the work. He was a great preacher whose ser mons would hare fitted the pulpit of any denomination, and whose mind was broad enough to accord to any honest dissenter from him an honorable place in this world’s affairs; and it was this liberal . construction he placed upon the reli< ■ V giotis privileges of others that led me to cite him as a Methodist minister v;hose sermons would probably not be consid ered good methodism “.by a zealous evangelist of South Georgia,” and that comparison constitutes the sole extent to which I involved Dr. Tiffany in the ar gument. T regret exceedingly that Dr. Tiffany’s reply to Mr. Mathews query regarding his views on dancing, etc., should have been so short as notrto include his opin ion of the controversy aud the principle I sought t o establish that church Juris diction docs not'extend outside its mem- ! bership and that one honest man’s be lief is as sacred to him as another’s; and must be treated with respect. I have heard Christianity expounded by Drs. Tiffany,Talmage, Buckley, Cook, Gunsaulas, the Rev. Phillips Brooks, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and by many other able, but less noted ministers, and have never been censured for dancing, have joined in a game of cards with as holy a man as isn the Christian minis try, and I have met Christian pastors at mnnygood plays at the theatres. Religious enthusiasm goes too far when it attempts to restrict the liberties of others or injure their good name and prosperity. The pica of the advanced minds ia the Christian ministry for less dogmatism and more of Christ’s gospel in the churches should decend on Way cross when an aggressive church-ism seeks to put a boycott on its good, honorabIe<up- right citizens who intelligently hold dif fering views on religious questions. The time lias arrived when it needs to be rec ognized here, as elsewhere, that liberty of thought is guarranted to us as a moral right and by the constitution of our country, and the time has gone by when any sect or church can impose an arbitrary domination on the social, school or municipal life of a community. Three Sundays ago I listened, in South Jacksonville, to a sermon from a noble man, grown grey in long years of preaching God’s message of love, and he closed an eloquent sermon to a deeply moved congregation in these words: “The accusation has been brought against us that for eighteen centuries Christianity has been tried and failed. Dear friends, Christianity has never been tried; ecclesiasticism has been tried and has failed—Now let us try Christianity. Emma L. Reed. awards. The conviction of one man of the higher class is better as au ^example than the' conviction of only ordinary people for common gambling.” Society people are excited over the attitude taken by the Judge. I do not know that this prevailing form of card-plaving was the “game” referred to by Mrs. Reed, but I too have known some who profess to minister in sacred things to so far lose their spirit ual perception as to need the help of a civil magistrate to show them what is wrong. Tlie unchangeable word of God speaks of those, who were “prophets or preachers of smooth things,” but in every case the punishment rather than the fa vor of God came upon them. Those who take pride in Way cross’ enterprise and spirit of leadership, as they read Judge Moore’s charge on progressive euchre, may recall with pleasure that a Ware county grand jury is on record to the same end, and as having keener moral perception than “broadness.” An ex-sheriff ot au adjoining county says: that of nine men whom he saw hung, every one declared that cards had a leading part in bri him to his I < » not \ ; this a spirit oi con- anticipatcs; but for the same reason that I read Dr. Tif fany’s letter, i. e. to prevent the mis guidance of those committed to my pas toral care, and such others as I may reach This I shall continue to do, and beyond this, I have no interest, and cer tainly no feeling, in the matter. With kindness lbr everyone, and praying for the salvation of all, Yours sincerely, G. W. MATHEWS. GK Sheriff Sale. CIA—Ware County. Will be sold on the first Tuesday i Jan uary.next. 1894, at the court house door said .county, within the legal hours of sale to the hi-h^t bidder for cash, the following proper’;. • .it: 400 acres more or less of lot of i.; <mber 492 in the 5th District of said county, together with all improve ments thereon, the land whereon II. G. Kite now resides. Levied on under and by a tax execution issued by T. T. Thigpen, T.C. W. C., for State and county tax for the year 1891, against M. J. Kirkland, and levied on as the property of M. J. Kirkland transfered by me to W. M. Denton with power to en force the same. Levy made by A. M. Carter, L. and turned over to me. This Novem ber 29,1S93. 8. F. MILLER, Sheriff, W. C. A TWENTY FOOT LEAP. A Horse Jumps from a Trestle and is Killed. Wet'n »lay alternoon a grey Texa? jo ny, with saddle and bridle on, was seen leaving the city and galloping down the B. & \V. R. R. track in the direction of Brunswick. Pretty soon he came to the high trestle on the road, which is in full siglit of Plant Avenue, and without halt ing attempted to cross. When about, midway the trestle, which is fully twenty fi*et high, he either jumped or fell to the ground. He was not killed instantly but dic*d soon afterwards. The owner of the horse, a stranger in Waycross, had re cently traded for him from a party liv* ing in the country and the horse was evidently attempting to get back to bis old home and took the railroad us the I nearest cut. Lei Us Be Thankful and Hopeful. Thursday .wa3 set apart by the rulers iff Nation and State, in whiciTthe people of this great and prosperous country are to return thanks to Almighty God for the blessings they enjoy. Then let us be thankful for the past and hopeful for the future. Hopeful confidence will cover all wounds. Renewed faith will add fresh zeal to willing hands. Sunlight will break out of the clouds that before were dark, and the\evils which wc imagined were threatening, will melt away as the morning dew. Especially, have we of this immediate section, many things for which to return thanks. Health, prosperity and immu nity from “the pestilence that walketh in darkness,” arc ours. Wc live in a community of churches aud schools, and love, harmony and good-fellowship pre vail in our midst. Let us kneel at the altar of faith to-day, return thank: Almighty God, the giver of all good, and rise with frcsli hope and a renewed de termination to push forward to the goal, which in the end is happiness and eter nal life. OUT OF BALA?,.. ; PROFESSIONAL CARDS rLtJ?”*j ATKIHSOH, OUHWOGGY S ITKIHIO 1, Attorneys at Law, SrunsirS- - Cmcovffia. JST Office f.v the present at Waycross Oa. Alliance Wnrvhm Cause DUuat - Athens, G?... there has been ; meat of the All Commission com 29.—For sometime '.e in the manage- Warehouse and tuy, and recently the account could j where thev were books disappeared and be had of the secreted. Monday morning, one of the books was ; found floating in the Oconee river. It* had been partially burned and many j still be made out in spite of the mutila* j tioa, aud it may prove r.-eful in bringing ! out future developuvits. Mr. \Y. A. MjEhumuo 1. the book-: keeper, v;: ,• placed uu-Iov arrest on a j bail troy.r >u;r filed iy t ie Alliance for the re-'- v re r: l which they- This is the ilr \ .I.i ; uvaU.oa the ( public XiEfES 3hr. SWEJj&.’OP Attorney at Law. WAYCROSS, - - GEORGIA.. B. H. williams, D. D. S FOLKS 1U.OCK. Tenders his profess AYCKO! [onal servlv JJK. JAS. C. ItlUPARD, riiysieian. and Surgeoi oimt i ir. C. I. volvjd. curd to Rev. G. W. Matthews’ Reply to Mrs Reed. Editor Herald :—In regard to article in Saturdays’ Herald, headed “a reply to G. W. Mathews,” I have this to brief ly say: The reference by “E. L. R.” to Dr. Tiffany, appearing, as it did, in an arti cle on dancing, in a criticism on remarks in a Waycross pulpit on dancing, and sandwiched in between a charge of nar rowness and arbitrariness in the pulpit, and an allusion to to “a zealous evangel ist of South Georgia,” urjiose preaching had so largely been on dancing, could not but be interpretted as referring to dancing. Otherwise it is a strangely dislocated allusion, and logic seems to have lost its way. Knowing Dr. Tiffany as a prominent Methodist, I imm:diat> ly wrote him the following letter: WAYCRC83, Ga., May 26, *91. My Dear Sif and Brother: I enclose you a marked clipping from a paper in Waycross, Ga. Knowing your long prominence aud influence in the M. E. Church I write as a pastor asking a word from you on the subject of dancing, discussed in the enclosed. It was another pulpit than ray own, on which the particular attack was made. Trusting to hear soon. I am, Fraternally Yours, G. W. Mathews. Pastor M. E. Church S. To which I received the following re ply: Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 2, ’91. My Dear Brother. On the general matter of dancing by church -members, the position of the Methodist Episcopal church is too well known, and my personal loyalty to her doctrines and discipline is of too long standing, to need reassurance. With kind regards, Yours Fraternally, O. H. Tiffany. I kept the letter’till such time as it could best be used. That that time came Sunday night, the 19th is demonstrated. Over against Mrs. Reed’s statement that she has “joined in a game of cards with as holy a man as is in the Chris tian ministry,”.R put the following clip- •pingjfrom a newspaper of some weeks since: Chattanooga, Tens., Sept. 8.— Judge Moon in his charge to the grand jury yesterday, created a sensation by declaring that progressive euchre is gam bling. lie said : “Not only is gam bling carried on in regular gambling re sorts, but people of high standing and respectibiHty gamble. They may not put down money but they set the exam ple for others in playing for prize* and ^ ^ iager, brought have been cut of balance for a long tirao on 1 that in vain did he appeal to McEl- hannonto straighten t iun. Ho finally had to call a meeting of tho directors to 1 investigate it, aud when he told McEl- hannou tho latter refused to work. The j next night the books were gone. MeElhannoa denied any knowledge of 1 the disappearance of the books, saying j that ho left them on his desk Thursday J afternoon, and that was the last ho knew i of them. MeElhannou's bond was fixed ; at §7,000, which was made tip by his [ friends. Special atientio i-v Miivcry. Folks Block, or at on r Fan!ilelV April 14- "TAR. F. C, FOLKS, F i ,-noiau and Snr- JL-f goon, Waycross, Ga. Office over T. E. Lamer a‘ Jewelry Store. ally aged. not pr AWFUL DEED. Wife tmd Th Maw Childri c, Who ed by a Notice of Sale. Agreeable to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Ware county, will be sold at auc- n at the Court house door of said county the first Tuesday .in January next, with- thc legal hours of sale, the following prop erty, to-wit: One house and lot situated B street, within the city of Waycross, said county, whereon Laura A. l’ollard resided at the time of her death. Sold as ‘the prop erty of Laura A. Pollard, late of said county deceased. Terms cash This 28tli day of Novemlier, 185)3. G. P. POLL ARD, Adm’r. Slit riff Suit-. GEORG I A'—Ware County. Will he sold on the first Tuesday in Jan uary next, 1891. at the court house door in said county within the legal hours of sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following property to-wit: One store house and lot in the town of Wnresboro, Ware countv, Ga., described and hounded as follows: On the east side by Main street, on the north by Settle street, on the west and south by lands belonging to estate William Tyre, said store house being a wooden two-story building, said lot containing 30x30 feet of land. Lev ied on under and by an execution issued from the Superior Court of Ware county, in favor of S. Gnckenheimer & Son against A. M. Carter A Bro„ and A. M. Carter and Jessie W. Carter. Property levied on as the property of Jesse W. Carter. This Novem ber 29, 185)3. S. F. MILLER, Sheriff* W. C. Bright. Beautiful November. Bright, beautiful November! The sweetest, mellowest month of the year! How she lingers in the lap of summer! November has been called “the dying embers of the years,” and that splendid poet, Leigh Hunt, has said: “November, with its loss of verdure, its frequent rains, the fall of the leaf, and the visi ble approach of winter, makes a gloomy month to some. To the thoughtful, it has an air of 'pensiveness. With us it brings feelings far from being destitute of pleasure. True, it brings reflections connected with our many mistakes, our morality, and so forth; but should not these strengthen us and make us bet ter?” Beautiful words and good hard sense.—Ex. Notice. tual consent, Mr. J. T. McGee having pur chased Mr. Gupton’s interest in the busi ness. The carriage and blacksmitliing busi ness will be carried on at the old stand by J. T. McGee. The liabilities of the firm have been assumed by J. T. McGee, to whom all amounts due the late firm must be paid. J. T. McGEE, S. L. GUPTON. dec 2 4t\v. A FAIR TRIAL of Hood's Sar- saparilla guarantees a complete cure. It is an honest medicine, honest ly advertised and it honestly CURES For Sale. Parties desiring to purchase the steam saw mill with fixtures and appcricnan- ccs all complete, on tram road north of Travisville, Clinch • county, together with said tram road and appurtenanceSj and the lumber at the mill, will ‘apply to the undersigned at Homerville, Ga. W. H. GARY, Receiver. Nov. 29-tf. COLUMBUS, Ind.. Nov. 29.—At Union- town, a little village near here, John Foster killed his wife, his three children and himself. Foster was 44 years old and well to do. He has been considered weak-minded at time3 by his neighbors, the infirmity growing out of a wound re ceived in the late war. The hour of the tragedy was shortly before midnight and tho weapon used was a revolver. Mrs. Foster was the first to suffer, being shot through the heart. Tho murderer then went into the bedroom where his children, two boys and a girl, aged respectively, 11, 5 and 7 years, were asleep. From the attitude in which the eldest boy was found, ho must have been awakened by the shotwhicli killed his mother. His hands were clasped above his head and he was kneeling, as if in prayer, probably begging his father tc spare him and his little brother and sis ter. If such a prayer was made by the lad its answer was a bullet through his heart. The other two children were shot through the head as they slept. Returning to the dead body of his wife, Foster sent a bullet through his own brain, and fell prostrate across the corpse. A. 1\ ENGLISH, Physician and Surgeon, WAYCROSS - - GEORGIA, rer All calls promptly attended. a DR. J. E. W. SMITH, < Iffico Re«l’s Bim-k. Special filtentiim given diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. WAYCROSS, - . GEORGIA. O. G. THOMAS, Attorney at Law, Kelt to hflillsr’s Restaurant, Yisjcross.Ba. DR. G. P. 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CANNON, Attorney at Law, WAYCROSS, - - - GEORGIA Office in Court-house. Will practice in the Brunswick Circuit and elsewhere by special contract. Nov l£-’90-ly. . jLs. OX^ja."^7-XxTE2 ATTORNEY LAW. WAYCROSS, : : GEORGIA. Office in the Wilson Building. joiin c. McDonald, Attorney and Counselor at Law, WAYCROSS. - - - GEORGIA, Office up stairs in Wilson Block. L. WILSON, Attorney at Law, WAYCROSS, Dr. J. P. PRESCOTT, Practicing Physician HOBOKEN, GEORGIA. All calls promptly attended. jy2-6m S. L. DRAWDY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. HOMERVILLE, : : : GEORGIA. Laughed Himself to Death. Laurel, MX, Nov. 29.—Wesley Par sons, au aged and well known farmer, while joking with friends was seized with a spell of laughing, being unable to stop. He laughed for nearly an hour when he began hiccoughing, and two hours later he died from exhaustion. About to Come to Terms.' Providence, Nov. 29.—There is every indication that the strike in the woollen mills will be compromised this week and the 6,030 operatives who have been out two mouths given work aga}n. The strikers’ proportion is almost what ttie manufacturers asked for originally. A Big I’oad Mortgage. Louisville, Nov. 29.—The Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge company has filed a mortgage to the United States Trust company, of New York, and the^ Union Trust company, of Indianapolis, to cover a bond issue of $5,000,000. Held Up s Freight Train. Goshen, Ind., Nov. 29.—Eight men held up the crew of the Lake Shore fast freight train near this city. Conductor Kiakok and Brakeman tfeyder were as saulted and robbed of $12.50 and three gold watches. killed His Wife for Fast Living. Elgin, HL, Nov. 29.—Fred L. Buck, state game and fish warden, shot and killed his wife. Muck said his wife had been tiring a fast life sal fee proposed stoplt. He gave himself %p to the po» lie®. DR. J. H. 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