Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-09-13
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ED. EAGLE.-Ny attention
has been called 20 an article IN
Your issue of August 31jh, en-
titled oxford Campmeetiug.
which ] think does me iajusiice
and will TO doubt Iuj1re me Ia
certain communities Jules the
mISsiatemeuts Of the writer are
corrected for il is known by
many persons who were not ~
the canpmecting, that / closed
a protracted meeting az Liberty.
- miles east of AbbcyI.l', on
the night of the 18th of August,
on purpose to 90 the Oxford
campmeeting to begin the next
day. They will perhaps want TO
know where | was, all the time
from the close OF tie meeting AZ
Liberty to the campmeetlus
dOx0logy, as Index put u,
week after. Now / positively
assert that left Brother Caleb
Halls on Saturday morning and
came by home and made my ar
engagements to go TO tue camp
meeting aud LEFT for that place
Sunday morning aud was on the
ground in the afternoon of thas
day and attended every service
from then to the close of the
meeting which occurred the
following Thursday night Dur
ing the services was in the
pulpit, in the liter talking 10 the
/ penitents, as occasion required
doing all could for the success
of the meeting. bu; "Iudex' did
not STE me. and represents ne
as getting IN ut the eleventh
( hour.he believes. Moreover, |
was IN the pulpit when Brother
Hudgins preached it looks
like ne ought to have seen me
then, bat he did not Aud. fur
thermO-e, | not only attended
every service after my arrival.
but | actually occupied the pull
pit on Thursday n eleven and
ut night, rs Il seems, unseen by
him. Now, he mag not know it
or intend IL, but Oh an attentive
perusal of "Index's" article, one
can. from its general tenor, with
out a forced construction.
think; draw this conclusion from
1t that a insn occupying the
the humble station OF circuit
preacher is hard 10 be seen by
him at all But, be that as it
may, ! was there :IoDg with
I Appoll0s. and Paul, and Peter.
aud the lesser lights. Further.
as he did not see me, how | ask.
did he come 10 knew of my op-
Z position 10 campmeetIng as is
implied in his article and be in
dulges in some JOY, even now
so J: seem, in anticipation OF the
removal of StandefeT aud !. so
that campmeetins men may be
put IN our places. The Onl.
way | can account for his iufOT-
nation Is this -: Science teach
es Us that when any Que 81 the
senses IS destroyed Cr naturally
detected the remaining unimpar
Ell ones become more acute
and powerful. so since he did
not see me because Il seems he
could not, aud since he Il! not
bear me saE | was opposed 10
campmeetiugs, there is only one
way left TO conclude. that is, he
smelt that But in sober seri-
BUSINESS, think ii would have
been mere In keeping with a
nIee sense OF pr0priety, suggest
Ell By an indisposiiion to dam
age the influence of ministers
II index had put himself to a
little trouble to ascertain the
real facts in case before he pub.
llshed to the many friends of
the campmeetIEg, both on cir
cut and in the station. to say
nothing of many others belong
ing to different denominations.
that Standefer and Davis are
opposed to the campmeeting
II may be that Index" after all
did not intend to iujure US, but
his Article needs a reply.
r. N. DAVIS.
Abbeville, Sept. :, l3sS.