The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-12-08
DIR. THOMAS TRIAL.

and repeated what it had often said be
fore that it would rather fall into thu
hands of band of Alodoc Indians thar
into the hands of 4 Church COMMITTEES
or Council, if anything like fairness OF
honor were expected.
We are pleased to see such All ablt
and even-tempered paper us the New
York Daily Times speaking Of the tria
and of DR.. Thomas prosecutors rs they
deserve. 1t says that the speech Of DR.
Hatfield, the chief prosecutor, was
filled will, coarse abuse. low slang
and vindictiveness," and that ibis
speech Is hardly fit to be published in q
respectable newspaper" 1t furthe,
says that his hearers seemed to enjoy
his coarseness" and that the more rep
rihensible his remarks became 1.-THE
more hearty were the demonstrations
OF APPROVAL" DR.. Thomas was re-
ferred to rs ''wily as old Tallyrand,':
and members of the Conference de.
clared their intention Of kicking out
the heretic.''
Yet these Methodist Modocs assem-.
bled themselves together and prayed.
and called themselves Followers Of the
meek and low!y Jesus" and held Il love
feast, and announced them selves rs the
flight Of the world" and the ''salt of
the EARTH" Would anybody wonder if
all mankind should join in laughing
these proud, priestly, ignorant Phari.
sees to scorn?''
The Boston Herald says:
1.-The unfairness, not to say untrnth.
| fulness OF the partisan religious press,
has received i striking illus! ration il
! the way the leading Methodist nrwSpa.
pers have treated the trial OF DR.. Thorn
rs for heresy-. If the Methodist
body is determined to allow no diver
| gence from its obsolete standards IN
present religious teaching. is influence
must cease among intelligent people. ~
far is the Methodist press from seeing
this point that it seems us if they had
deliberately attempted to suppress an
honest account of the trial, or to SD gar
Die the report rs to misrepresent the
facts. The verdict ac'inst him was
not unanimous. On the charge Of -r-
ror about the inspiration Of the Bible
the vote stood six to three;on the atone
Ment, five to four; OIL future punish
ment, eight to one The Chicago Chris
tian Advocate sums up the case IL less
than Il column, and neglects t" give the
vote. The Cincinnati Advocate gives
| thirty lines. and fails to mention the
vote. The New York Advocate omits
the subject altogether. This is the
Methodist game Of bluff. while the SEC.
ular press has made the case famous hv
giving full reports. and emphasized it
AS notable throughout the ,ountry."
ANOTHER BOOKBI JUDGE TOUHGHE
In his Preface 10 "A Royal Gentle
man," which! is to be sold by suI,Scr!p-
ton, the author Says: The trouble is
that the Northern man has made up Il
South for himself, and. without tile
least hesitation, Critlclses any depart
urc from the original of his own imag
nation Us untrue to life. After went
South, the contrast between these pre-
notions and what | Saw of the life
around me, impressed me keenIy, and
soon became i subject Of engIossing in-
terest.
Il saw, or thought l saw, that the
conscious evils at slavery-the crut
lash. the impossible task, and whatever
Ut opportunity for malice the system
gave rise tU-had been Interpretations
ately dwelt upon by the antis!:.veiy
writer's of the North. At the same
time, the unconscious evils OF the sys-
tem-thuse which warped the brai Il ri
heart OF the master lbs well lis dwarttd
the soul of the slave-llad been allowed
to drop out of sight. l noticed, too,
that these unconscious evils were the
very ones which had left their marks
upon character, and that every one
who had been submitted to their ill.,
fluences was more or less SCARED by
them-especially the master race; and
that these influences were i part OF
slavery which could not be abolished. -
This book was writteA because its ill
cilents. in effect, had passed before my
eyes with such vividEess that [ could
not but write;it is picture 1T facts.
Farther, it does not go nor lead.
IA FOOLS Errand and The Invisible
Empire" depicts the experience Of a
Northern Settler in the S"uthrr'! States
during the leriou Of Reconstruct ion.
''BrickS without Straw pictures the
conditions and difficulties under which
the Freedman is trying to struggle up
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Royal Gentleman" pnrtrays, it, Il novel
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elements. never before So clearly ana
lyZed and treated. Eamely-thc South
ern View OF the Rebellion; the Auto
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IF the cial scale: the Poor White, tie,,
lying ut the bottom. but now fast
climbing to the higher levels: the typi j.
cal Young Snutherney before, during,
and since the war, together with his
relations-personal. social, and legal
will, the typical Slave Girl Of beauty.
intelligence. and subsequent refinement.
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1t is Il picturesque, vivid. aud passion.
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