The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-03-05


EDrroR-.Please print this in your paper
as an answer to tho sermon preached in
the Weissport church, on Feb. 9th. / hold
you responsible for the printing OF that SER
mon, unless you tell me who the person was
who reported it. J.E.F.
Notwithstanding the threat contained
in the above note, we courtesly comply with
the rev. gentleman's request to publish his
letter addressed " Reported by Lead Pencil"
The gentleman mot BoY) who reported and
furnished us with SYNOPSIS of the sermon
on the Anxious Bench, vouches for the cor
rectness of his report. We do not see any
thing in Mr. F's letter denying that fact J
he only claims that some connecting sent
ences were omitted in the report. That is
a common occurrence in newspaper reports
OF sermons or speeches, unless prepared and
furnished to the press by the parties who
deliver them. If Mr.. Freeman is agrieved
and thinks that justice was not done him in
our report, if he will furnish us with full
and correct English translation OF his SER
mon, we will cheerfully publish it, so that
the people may judge of the correctness Of
our reporter Editor ADVOCATE.
''RcPorted by Lead PENCIL"
There is more or less suspicion in a nom
dc plume. By this we mean when person
writes an AN article ard signs it by some
assumed title. A person may assume a
name for modesty's sake, but il person de-
sires to ridcule another before the eyes of
the public through the press, he ought al
ways to have courage enough to sign his own
name; or if a man-perhaps it was boy
writes letter to another for the purpose of
coaxing him away from his church, and that
to join a sect, having not the moral courage
to sign his own name, is a sneak, although
he uses the title, "Your praying Friend -
The apostle Paul, in all his letters to the diff
ferent churches uses no assumed name, but
even in the very beginning of the epstle-
in his greeting, uses his own name.
The sermon preached by me ON the 9th ol
February, was falsely reported. The sermon
was preached in German the sermon was
printed in English. 1t is a very poor trans
lation. 1t smacks of lead it is leady. The
English is too simple indeed. All trarsla
tions lose their original and inherent lorce
but never their meaning and connections
Sentences, and therefore thoughts are lef
ont. The connections are therefore lost ,anc
the whole meaning of the sermon is lalsilieC
and that maiiciousty.
Let us see, c. G. 81 have never yet beer
afraid to call myself sinner. But am OF
the track" Between these two sentence
other sentences are left out. Between thes'
two sentences we explained that no absolute
perfection was found nor could be found oI
earth and that in certain sense the bes
of us were sinners. Even the "ReporteC
by Lead PenciD. Then we stated that w
had drifled off our main subject If tina
reporter We're honest in his convictions anC
knew and understood the holiness an,
righteousness of God and his own pronenes
to sin-that he sins actually in thought
word and dced-he would call himself sin
ner and would thus not "be of the track"
We did not say that "Thcy do not belev
in original SIM" that "they deny the tota
depravi;y of man." and that "they teacl
that man has power in himself to save him
self" The assertion that we said so in tn
sermon is a whitewashod lalsehood. Th
whole translation of the sermon, from be
ginning to end, smacks of leady sarcasm,
The translator spiced the sermon TO suit hi
sarcastic taste. He ought to be appointed a
a committee to translate tie revised Bibl
after it is fully in print, from the Englisl
into the German language, because he
such a good hand in transoting from tn
German into the English language. If tha
reporter has not the moral courage to sigl
his name to his articles and especially to
sermon preached by some one else, let hin
stop translating and reporting in his lead
way. j. Z. FREENAY.