The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1889-04-20
MODERN PILATES.

gifted pen of a well-known Missis
sippi woman fairly smokes and
sizes with burning sarcasm and
ineffable sc0r1l. Let those whom
the cap fits wear it:
Through all the centuries since
the Nazarene stood accused, de
spised and bufl'etted in Pilate'shall
there has been but one verdict
npon the character and conduct Of
plate. His violation Of his sense
of Justice and right, his cowardly
yielding to the cry of the jews
against one in whom he found no
fault, all stamp him as a political
poltr0on. Nor does the poor sub
terfuge of publicly washing his
hands, to quiet conscience and at
test his innocence, in any sense
mitigate the opinion which, sweep
ing through the centuries, stamps
him with immortal infamy. There
can never be reversal of that
verdict, there ought not to be; but
if this is just and righteous judg
lnent of the hcathen Procurator,
ambitious of power and place and
knowing no religion but the Greek
polytheism as transmitted through
the Romans, what ought to he the
verdict about the men of to-day
who, for the sake of position or
office, not alone deny Christ, but
buffet and spit upon his cause to
carry out their ambitions plansl
1t is as vain for them to plead
s'partytiesp and the demands OF
party ''iealty" and listen for the
echo from the slums' his blood be
on us and on our children" and
hope therefrom to be adjudged
'innocent,p as it was for PLATE Il
think to cleanse his soul of guilt by
washing his hands in water. Mari,
the scheming aspirant for public
position and honor, inscriptions
IN his methods of manipulating til,
ignorant and vicious to secure hii
personal aggrandizemcnt. PLATE
like he lays the fiattering junction
to his soul that the divine retribu
ton will spend itself upon the mis-
crable creatures who, for the poo
J pay of his corrIIpting patronage
! bowed themselvesyet deeper in sil
and shame and degradation to lif
him up to hight from which, sc
, cure and scornful, he shall smile a
their ruin. But as in the physica
! realms noxi0us vapors rise up fror
! the lowlands of filth, and poisoi
7 the upland dwellers, 50 in til
moral realm, the poison Of the spii
I itual malaria of the dives, dens, sa
looms and slums will float up an
q invade and permeate and whelr
! these men and their loved ones i
I utter and hopeless ruin. Becaus
I Judgment" is not executed speedil
! men will dare, for gain to self, t
, do these gross public wrongs; as
f the eye of God could not see tn
f individual, as if his finger Of wrat
n might pass them because of wealt
: or worldly position. With n NOR
/, terrible retributiOn than Plate
I will God visit his counterparts i
y the close of the nineteenth ccntur!
There is yet another class VIII
! are not guiltless in this matter ,
- y public and national corruption
= They are good men who, with til
: natural disgust for dirty thing
= have drawn the robes of theirclea
= lives about them and passed by o
: the other side leaving the bod
q polite in very deed fallen anon
i thieves and wounded nigh uni
70 70 deatIls The corruption thatmakl
| politics a "dirty poop ought TO |
- the concern of every hOnOrab
II Christian man, and not one WI
: has the right of franchise, no ma
ter how exalted his position
y church, can consistently ignore Ii
u duties of citizenship without becoI
~ ing a silent partner in the regnal
= iniquities. Never did the folio
y ers of Christ need more conraI
y than now, never was there great
! need for undaunted valor in 0
X posing wickedness in high place
y. Christian citizens must make the
4 influence felt in the government
- - they would rise to the full measl
=, of their responsibility and save {
~ blessings ofliberty 10 their poste
=, ty.-Brookhaven Leader.