The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-07

The correspondent of the Sentinel, o. V.
c., in his changed coat, sets out on the war
path, singing slang, SANDER and falsehood
right and left. Professedly taking our items
in the ADVOCATE of three weeks since as his
text, in which items we spoke encouragingly
to those who, in failing in their efforts to sing,
we assured that they could sing, by softening
down their voices till less ike screams of the
paper mill whistle, and said we were tired OF
hearing it said show they holler." O. Y. G.,
working under the sound of said whistle takes
it all to himself, though we did not personate.
We did not say he could not sing, nor anyone
else; on the contrary, we said they could sing,
and should modulate their voices. We will
now say that he, o. V. c. so called, cannot
sing, but, for his encouragement, that he may
learn to sing if he will first get the information
necessary to begin that learning, which is, to
know what singing is. This would-be chief
priest and ruler of the synagogue at Morgan
Chapel applies to us about score of epithets,
and makes no other reference to the article
to which he cssayed reply. He should have
gotten some one to have told him whether
an article was for or against Morgan Chapel
before he spent two weeks, and then got an
other to help him put those loose epithets to-
gether, Gaping them with reflection upon
the sainted dead of Mt. Pleasant Church,
which is every word lie, and comes with i'll
grace from this pretender, after a descendant
of said sainted dead has taken him by the
hand and dore so much of a noble hearted
little womans part toward trying to make
man of him. The true story of Mt Pleasant
Church is, that before this defamer was born
the society arose through the Days, its pros
perity was through the Days, its building was
through the Days, its ministry was sustained
through the Days, and few big hearted ones
beside, and then prominent citizen of that
place said that it cost the Days more than four
thousand dollars 1--WE would not seem indeli-
cate in thus using q name O. V. G. has pub
licly personated). And when its honored
founders were laid to rest, and all the living
ones of the family had left the neighborhood,
then Mt. Pleasant went down, and stands
decaying monument to the selt-sacnhcing
zeal of its founders, and, if let alone, may one
day be worth twice its first cost to the denom-
nation which may hold it for all time to
come, waving reyersionary contingencies.
This falsehood and personating about Mt.
Pleasant Church is what has led us to reply,
as we esteem time otherwise as much too i'm
portant to waste on him here, as we do to
waste it listening to this o. V. c. expound.
But if Morgan Chapel congregation can stand
the boring, we can, as we are not often there
when there is not some minister, on which
occasions o. V. G. cannot trouble US with
more than his initiative whistle bowls. Now,
as he has denominated us adviser" we will
state few facts he does not seem to know,
and advise a little. The facts are these =
That under the laws of Maryland, the rules of
church, the laws of God and the gracious
welcome of the Immaculate, there is nothing
that this would be chief priest dare claim at
Morgan Chapel that we have not more fully
paid for, as fully merit, have an equal right
to, including the right to advise, and will hold
adj Rbitltn, as certainly as 0. V. c., claiming
all this in as full measure as he, and not ex
cepting his piety, transferred from his once
boosted of pile of lions watch tower to an
other church from which, because they do not
license him to exhort, he now talks of trans
ferring to yet another church. Now for our
advice to this chief priest behind O. V. G.
When you get up to expound take less scrip
ter'' A whole, or several chapters, when
fully expounded is more than We ''unscrip-
terized" ones can digest at one meal. You
should not give too much for weak stomachs.
We will point out text for you that will be
most appropriate, and if you handle it truth
fully we have no doubt that when through the
audience will be ready to respond, "Yea, even
so, amen" The text will be found in Num-
bers 22:30, second clause, comprising but
five monosylables.
At first reading we mistook our assailant's
identity, but soon located him behind the 0.
V. C. And these remarks by way of notice
of this malicious and unprovoked attack are
not intended to apply in any respect to any
one except this would-be ruler of the syna-
gogue hid behind his O. V. c.; and they have
no reference to his more innocent and doubt
less deceived assistant And we wonder that
the Sentinel was taken in by an article which
seems to have carried with it the evidence of
dishonesty, in the fact that It was presented
to a different paper to the one in which our
items anneared