Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-07-16
Enr The Slnss S.nfine
For the STATE Sentinel.
Gov. Whitcomb abused for visiting n
Methodist Sabbath SchnoliI

I'm company lcih a frisnd, the Governor uisited
the Sabbath Schools at the Methodist Churches in our
city, ,chere he met the Ministers. Some accounts say
Has ErceHency addressed the scholars" DC
MEssRs CHAPMANs:-The above is en- extract from
the first part of abusive article which appeared
in the Daily Bulletin" of the 9Th inst intending
TO hold up to ridcule and contempt the Governor of
Indiana for visiting Methodist Sabbath School.
L have been told by reliable authority that Gov
Whitcomb and the Adjutant General 1.-THE friend y
alluded toy regular teachers in Methodist Sab
bath School in your city, and when at home are always
with their classes. Is it sol Why it is that in this
land Of religious liberation little Shiny editor the
mouthPiece of political aspirants should be hired to
post mp tie Governor IN public print as having dis
gTaced himself by visiting Methodist Sabbath School,
is strange thing TO me. That large and respectable
Christian Church has been sneered at long enough by
religious bigots and political demagogues Within
its pales found, in this as well as other
States, not only deep piey, but also tie brightest
ornaments of science and literature. And yet there
are still men who feel in their very souls that Me-
thodist as stencil IN their refined nostrils-they say
% these Methodiss are an ignorant peope-ihey be-
long to the lorer class
That the Methodist church has contributed her
share with other churches in spreading the Gospel of
Peace through this State, from the time it vas n
bowling wilderness to the present time no one can
doubt. In the rude beginnings of our State, when
the curling smoke and the stroke Of the axe alone
told that white man had pitched his tent In this vast
waste the first voice that fell upon the ear of the en-
grant that Of the evertoiling Methodist preacher
They did not stand sentries on the wall of Zion,
but they dashed into the dense sOlitudes with their
lives in peril. as bold rangers that they might WOO
to Christ the strayed off and daughters of men,
They did not toLlop civilization, nav, they out
stripped it; for when it came, they welcomed it, for
they had prepared its way. Scarce cabin in the
State which they have not visited. From our terri
torial infancy to our present greatness they have
labored from house to house that they might accom-
plish the mighty work that God had given them. And
now, when look over society and see my neighbors
who members of that church, when l see their
churches and institutions of learning which literally
dot whole State as well as the whole Union, anC
then read the filthy effort of driveng hired editor
to hold up in public print the Governor of our State
disgraced for not only risting Methodist Sabbat
Schools but also for further disgracing himself by
meeting the minister's but still further covering him
self with obloquy by addressing The scholars, say
can but turn away from such putrid mass of poiti
cal corruption and enquire ichO hired himl WhC
hired this thing to abuse Gov. Whitcomb because
he minges with the MeIhodists! Who wishes hin
beaten for Governor! Who would like to beat him
New ALBANY, June IL, 1916. CITIZEN.