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i'HE HUSTLER OF ROME.
THIRD year.
K ft 1W
Scl)r es Rev. Warren Candler
of Em )>-y College.
defendssociety women
s ,y S members Os the il.thodidlChui-oh
are nowassessed «<1 bills presented
regularly-and unlees the money
comesthej get the cold shoulder.
For some days there has been a
heated controversy raging between
Dr. Warren Candler of Emory Col
lege and Bishop Nelson of the Episco
pal Church, growing out of senation
a! language used by Dr. C andler in
a recent serman.
Yesterday morning, Mrs. Dr. W.H.
Felton, one of Georgia’s best women
and most caustic writers puts iu an
oar and adds some choice reading
matter to the already interesting
discuseion.
Among other things Mrs. Felton
says.
’ Dr. C. nller told his congregation
how he prayed, ami also said his
prayers were answered because Iff
ftsked not for “imposib'e things.”
things are possible with God, and the
Lord tells us if we had faith like a
mustard seed the mountains would
slide down into the sea iu answer to
prayer.
I take this discourse of Dr. Candler
to be the outcome of a se ison of vain
glorious self-importance. He will tee
it w th cleared eyes when he sees him
self as others see him. Mr. Robert
Ingersoll never uttered a more per
nicious sentiment or a statement more
at variance with the teachings of the
gospel than Dr, Caudle r’s assertion
that “society women can’t pray, if
they say they pray, they tell a lie.”
* * *
lam not a society woman; never
tried to be one. I have kept the rules
of the Methodist church on dancing,
card playing afid various other reg
ulations, in good faith; but I had
rather risk these women in an ap
peal for charity and generous good
will to a worthy enterprise than any
of the self-righteous Pharisees who
tithed their possessions and disgr.s
ed the Savior with their superiority
to other people, iu their own estima
tion.
As I rea l this Sunday’s sermon on
“prayer’’ I wondered what Bishop
Asbury or John Wesley would have
said to this ecclesiastical b mtam if
he had stepped in their pithway to
flop his wings and crow as a repre
sentative of Methodism!
V e are hr jht to a pl.ve where
financial distress and business de
pression mark unerringly the decay
of statesmanship and public corrup
tion; but the decay does not begin
or end there; for this is a day of small
men, narrow minds, limited intelli
gence, excessive paitisanship and
consummate I igotry in church as
"well as state.
* * *
'lbe idea that a man or woman
must “give” to be worthy of salva-
W. A. RHUDY.
Furniture and Undertaking, Carpetsand Matting.
KllsrCLA-TZD
ROME GEORGIA,
tion is being stressed for all it is
worth just now. Members of the
Methodist church—l do not speak
for other denominations—are now
assessed; regular bills made
->ut; monthly, quarterly or annu
ally as they may decide, and the
cold shoulder is given to any or
a 1 who are net prompt to pay.
More than that, scarcely a Sunday
in the year but has its regular
begging programme arranged for
and carried out.
All values have shrunken—cot
ton sells at lowest figures—the
property owner is harrassed to
death to pay taxes and keep away
from sheriffs, but official salaries
and church stipends never shrink
—they held even balance if no
higher all the time. We are taxed
to support Emory college, as well
as bishops, presiding elders, pas
tors, foreign and domestic mis
sions, superannuated preachers,
besides constant appeals from oth
er quarters, all pressed with coun
tenance and force of the church
“Giving” and “tithing” have taken
possession, where the church had
aggressive force and sinners were
reclaimed as a result of effective
preaching —inst ad ® i 0 ev jol
ting pastors.
I cannot recall an;, t’ i g that
caused me such foreboding for the
future of the Methodist church, as
the card of Rev. A . J. Jarrell, now
stationed in St. Louis (removed
bv the bishop from the South
Georgia conference) iu the Wes
leyan Christain Advocate a few J
weeks ago. He learned that his J
character was questioned before ,
the South Georgia Conference, be
cause he did not beg out all
the assessments before he left
Georgia. Actually his good name
was “slow up,” as the trainmen
say, to a serious examination, and
•he gravamen consisted in his | ail '
ure to extort the amount dem tn i I
ed from his station, as assessments.
These preachers must get it, thei
have to get it, and if one is a poor
collector, though he “spake like an
angel,” he must pack his grip and
start if he fails to >et what is
wanted, and so report to the con
ference iu the fall.
But we are going to fight for lib
erty on this line, until the civil law
steps in and sends the sheriff to
sell us out. John Knox, I know is
praying “Give me Scotland or 1
die,” but the Lord is not so pc or or
His resources are so depleted that
the publican cannot be listened to
as well as the Pharisee. Those doc
tors of divinity are also human
when their real desires are clari
fied of extraneous sanctity. R a
prayer may be employed but sel
dom. according to the great teach
er of embryo, preachers ot Emory
college, but if they pray but sei
dom and always get what they pray
for, the society woman would find
that for luxurious living and “ease
in Zion,” few people are more , O>
tunate than our high-priced preach
ers. Respectfully
MRS. W.H FELTON.
J auuary 30, 1894
MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY. 5. 189 L
win
Fair Minded Evans in n in no I
u’ c rtain language Pre
sent the
ATLANTA CONSLTIU [TON’S
(tonr»c In trying t> rtil« Mr. Atkinson j
off Hit. tr«uk. The people oatside of 1
A lanta have some rights.
From the Macon Telegraph one
of tha largest and most abb e ited
Newspapers in the state we clip the
following editorial paragrap’ :
“Col. John H. Hodgas, editor of
the Perry Home Journal, one of the
best county papers in the state, is a
supporter of Gen Evans in his rac
for governor, but he resents the at
tempt now being ma le to crowd Col.
Atkinson off the tiack before the
race is fairly begun, Col, Hodges’
letter which we print elsewhere is
e . idence of his love of fair pl iy and
his consideration for the interests of
the people We do not doubt that
his resentiment is share 1 by a great
many right thinking people,”
hhJLdw is thb Card ffeoxf OoL. hodges:
WHY SHOULD ATKINSON WITH
DRAW.
To the E litor of tha Telegraph:
If it will not be considered as an im
pertinence, I would as! | why is it
that the Atlanta Constitu i>n is so
solicitious concerning the candidacy
of Hon. W. Y. Atkuis in for the G >v
ernorship of Georgia? If it be true j
that Gen. Evans is the choice of so
large a majority of the 1 eoplf o’
G rorgia, certainly no harm to his c in
didacy can come to him through the '
presence of an opponent in the cam
paign.
If this solicitude is for the benefit
of Col. Atkinson, then the gentle
man is placed in the attitude of a
politician whose ambition overreach
es bis judgement. If the candidates
were other than cultured gentlemen,
patriotic citizens and tl o ougtiD-mo—
crats there might be cause to fear
that Democracy would suffer through
a contest for the nomination.
Failing to find cause of danger
to either of the candidates, the
party or the people, I am anxious
to know the source of the Consti
tution's anxious solicitud". (I b -
lievesuch a superlative ex -ression
is admissible in this connection )
In common with many other good
Democrats of the State lam con
strained to favor the candidacy of
G°n. Evans in this c. mpaign, but
I protest in the name of jus'i •
against any effort to force Co 1 > -
kin son out of this race at t L is stage
of the contest. A full and free dis
cussion of questions of imports, e
to the State can be productive of
good only, and the people have a
desire and a right to demand an
opportunity to express their choice.
Col Atkinson is something of a
politician himself, and I venture
the assertion that he has ciusid-
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erod the situation carefully,
Before the campaign opened the
Constitution earnestly advised
Col. Atkinson not to become a c°n
didate for G vernor, and now ad
vice comes from the same source
that Col. Atkinson ought to with
er T be race. This is done
«.r : a ed purpose of pro-
u ' Dony in the Democrat
ic | art-, >-’l the while it being
known that !he Constitution is“in
the Evans culvmn.”
I am not surprised that Col. Atkin
son rts< nt a; an injustice stick a Ivice
from “his friend, the enemy’ If fl e
Constitution is so solicitious that har
mony should prevail in tho Demo
oartic party, why its persistent con
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tra’ ion?
I cannot see why C 1 Atkinson
should with lrav»y nd hope lie will not.
John H. Hodges.
Perry, Fob. 1 1894
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