Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-11
lTO BE CoNTINUED.)
BOICOTTlNG SAM JONES.

An Indianapolis PREACHER lalkS ABOUT inc
Billmgsgatc Gatherings ola Mountcbam
Sam Small, the sub evangelist, will be
gin n series of meetings i'll the new city
hall next Sunday, and Sam Jones will
come to his aid on the Tuesday following,
writes an Indianapolis correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer. They will labor
with the unregenerated for two weeks,
and if success attends their ministrations
the meetings will be continued indetinit-
ely. Yesterday, after the close of the re
guIar services at the First Baptis church,
the pastor, Rev. DIR. Jeffrey, asked the
congregation to remain while he present
ed IL protest which may be said to have
gone for the evangelist, Jones, in man
ner sever. 1t seems that DIR. Jeffrey, III
the New York Independent, saw where
Jones was quoted with saying: IF any
man says that only immersion is baptism
tell him he is liar" and he took some
pains to verify the fact that Jones really
said it. and it made his Baptist blood
boil. Hence the protest, II take excep-
ton to this language" said he i'll his pro
test, mot because he has expressed his
dissent from an opinion held by millions
of intelligent people, not because he has
violated the demands of courtesy and
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inion from an undenominatiOnaI platform,
nor because more intelligent person
would have represented the views he ira
vesties in more exact phraseology, but be
cause of the gross and insulting epithet
with which he has branded the men and
women who hold sacred conviction.
If Mr.. Jones had charged them with a
want of intelligence | could have smiled
at his ignorance and pitied his self-con-
ceit; but when he says that in protesting
this conviction they are liars he pre-
sumes to stigmatize them with an epithet
that society has ever regarded as among
the vilest in the catalogue of the terms of
vituperation an epithet which gentlemen
never apply to each other, and which the
lowest scullion would not use except in
the passion of malice and for the purpose
of inticting a deadly insult. Mr.. Jones
has already grieved multitudes of decent
people by the cOarsenesS of his denuncia-
ton of meanness and vice. but they have
accepted his plea that he resorts to such
devices in order to attract people of the
baser sort. When. however, this moral
scavenger dares to reckon as Otfal any ac-
credited denomination of Christian peO-
pie for the simple reason that that they
are true Ia their conscientious cOnvic-
tions, he proves the coarseness of his
moral fiber and puts himself beyond the
pale of recognition on the part of all
who have regard for the amenities of
Christian brotherhood, of social camity
and decent speech. | utter my protest
alike in the interest of UNCONVENTIONAL
fealty and Christian cathoicity. | should
count myself poltroon were to give the
countenance of my support or even my
presence To a man coming here in the
garb of Christian minister. who Will fies
the honest convictions of the denomina-
tiOn to which | belong, or outrages my
sense of the respect due to the equally
conscientious opinion of any portion of
the great brotherhood of Christians"
Further along in his protest the doctor
said that. while he did not wish to appear
a. debating to his congregation, he for
one should stay away; nor could he see
how self-reSpecting immersionist could
seek lesson of purity, love, and honor
from the billingsgate gatherings of
mountebank, who, in addition to all the
other indecencies of his speech has dared
to call them liars. Mr.. Jones claims. |
understand, that his special mission is TO
the mean and vile. Let all who consider
themselves in either class find ample
bIAe 10 wait upon the ministry OF man
whose stock in trade is scurrility and
scum With due Difference to Dr. Jeffry,
II will put even the evangelist, Jones, upon
his mettle to say anything more bitter
than has Jeffrey in his TRADE against
Jones. The Doctor is pastor of the
largest and most influential church of the
Baptist denomination in this city, and
what he has said will have considerable
influence in the reception to be given by
the local ministry to the apostle from the
south. His own congregation heartily
Endorsed the protest, and it is pretty sure
that Jones will be made to feel the wei ht
of Baptist boycott when he comes.