The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-09-19
A CLERICAL BLACKBOARD.

The WOrShlppcrs AT "AmitY 'hurcn, Nhl
cago, sort of Baptist affair where the "Gcs
/ pei is dispensed with" each Sunday by
half crazy scnsation-mongcr named Florenc,
McCartty, must have queer taste any way
| to be able to find delight iA listening, Sunda,
after Sunday, to rawlings Of which the follow
ing, taken from his last Sundays discourse
is an average specimen. The main portion
! of the sermon was devoted to lampoon o
DR.. Evarts with. towards the close, this gcncr
al additions
| know of Baptist minister not DR.. Ey
er,s-who in buslacss transactions, and il
| business circles, is regarded as the most M
prlncipled thief for miles around, and who
nevertheless Is sometimes accepted by min
| listers about him as an hOnored leader in &c
cleslaStical matters. know 4 Baptist min
| lister who was seen, spoken to, and identl
| fed at the Theatre ComiQuc, in this city, ii
the society of an infamous female character
I know a Baptist minister who SUSTAINED
! guilty relations with all the ballet girls II
| Aiken's theatre at one time. know bap
! tis minister who is believed, for such thing,
! can never be proved, 10 have carried the al
! lcccd brides TO Alderman Glade, Montgom
cry. and Busse, for receiving which they
we're put in Jail. know a Baptist church
among whose members or attendants there i:
! so much corruption, that it has received in
the community, rs nickname, the Wors
word in any language; and whose pastor
even, has been seen twice where he ought mo-
To have been; all of which facts | assert are
in KNOWLEDGE IF She gentlemen Of the press
and are withheld from the public out Ofpurt
fnr tlNn nnrtins kpnV Of
BAPTIST religious paper which deals out re
lirious pabulum to its readers by the hand OF
a writer who has served q term in the peni
Tertiary for robbng the mails, and who, like
other pcnitcntiarv Convicts, rs worse man
now than he was before he was imprisoned
know of a paper, one or more OF whose pro
prctors are Baptsts, professedly laboring fol
The conversion of the world, which went beg
clng once, and collected $4,000, in charities
when one of the propretors was living in a
hor,sr worth $4,000, and the firm had not
lost n cent Of what the community thought il
had. know OF Baptist minister who, at a
time of great public calamity, was intrustcd
with supply Of stores for the reliefot the des
titutc: and when he came to account Tor the
stores, could not account for valuable bale
Of blankets which III had received. lie could
not imagine what had gone with it, But II
WAS observed tlld' lie was vel CdIClul W ~
quest his visitors not TO go into his bed cham
Der. And enc sister, whose curiosity got the
better of her sense ofproprety, watched her
opportunity, and entered the charmed pre-,
cincts. to sec what she could see. And there,
nicely slowed away unler her pastors bed,
she saw nice bale Of blankets, placed there,
no doubt, by the spirits. This pastor has
never been thought any the less of on this &C
count, though every Baptist in Cook county
knows of the circumstance. Indeed, | may
say he is quite prominent among his minis
terial brethren. and cXertS considerable in
fluencc Finally, know of a Baptist minis.
ter who, few years ago, hired his wife out
to another man and received the money. And
though this conduct broke his church 10
pieces. he and his spouse came of together
unpunlshed. And in his present settlement,
though almost every man, woman and child
in the ncighbOrhoOd knows OF their beastly
conduct, he and his wife are honored as teach
crs and workers in the cause OF religion
and he himself is the loudest mouthed, most
otlicious. most uncharitabc dog that ever
barkcd over an open bible.