The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-10

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war. Will he give us fully his Pedce
experience?
JOHN HEMMENwAY.
SAINT ANTHONY PARK, MINNESOTA,
January 3rd, 1889.
Mr.. Browne, in Reply:
John Hemmenway's letter in anoth-
er column calls for some notice. -,
Though received four days after II
was written, the letter was laid by
thinking it might not be inappropriate
| for the present number-the 2lst ami
versary of the NE1GHBoR.
The kind words of the esteemed and
venerable friend of the NEIGHBoR and
it's editor are appreciated, for we have
no doubt of the sincerity Of the author
in what he says.
Whether the life Of the NEIGHBoR
be longer than that Of its editor we
cannot tell. AS long as the editor
lives, God willing, the NEIGHBoR shall
live also. While living we shall try to
provide for the continuance. of the pa
Der as an answering peace journal
until the editor shall have gone ''the
way of all the earth," and, if possible,
until there shall "be time no longer"
Though I'VE have not at present any
satisfactory arrangement for perpetu-
ating the publication Of the NEIGH
B6R, vet we are persuaded it will out
live the editor. Let these contingent
cies fall out as they may, we shall not
be moved from our lifelong purpose to
publish the NE1GHBoR in the interests
of peace and against the iniquities of
war.
AS in the past, so now, some persons
are anxious for the perpetuity of the
NE1GHBoR; others somewhat prefer
that it live on; others indifferent-are
willing for it to live and about as will
ing for it to die; others have done
what they could to starve it to death
by subscribing and not paying; others
have tried to run it ont of the State or
press it to the wall others have made
lit the ''speckled bird :" others charge
it with disloyalty to the civil and &C.
clesiastial "powers that be-" others
might not grieve themselves to death if
the NEIGHBoR were dead now, or had
never been born.
If we have misrepresented any per-
son or any class it is unintentional,
and we stand ready to do the dmende
honorable to any who may be aggriev-
ed and make the grievance known.
The "Said-so" friends have not tried
waiting for the NEIGHBoR to ''prove Il
failure" These friends as we'll as the
who "of envy" will have to wait a
while longer-mayhap die "without
the sight"
Whether we have lost or gained (in
dollars and cents in publishing the
NEIGPBoR we are not prepared to an
swer with eXactness. If the enter
prise had not been made by certain
others to cost the proprietor more than
was necessary, and if old delinquent
subscribers had paid, and if all current
subscriber: would pay what is now due
we might declare in favor of "gain''-
without allowing anything for the
threefold service of proprietor, editor
and publisher.
We cannot now give fully our eXpe-
rience in having our eyes opened on
the sin of war. May do so at another
time. For the present, suffice it to say
that as we-reluctantly-held the
Christian Scriptures over the bloody
facts of the late war, our opening eyes
saw the disagreement, THE OPPOSI-
TION, THE EANTAGONISMb between
Christianity and war, and we resolved,
come what might, that henceforth we
would never speak, write or act in fa-
vor of any war as long as we might
live. From that day to this we have
kept that VOW. From this day to the
last on earth we shall. in the strength
of Christ, "walk by the same rule, and
mind the same thing"
Though Brother Hemmenway's let
ter called for the foregoing references
to the life of this Editor and his paper
we record with gratitude to God that
the NEIGHBoR is moving along the
even tenor of its way, and that the ed
itor is in good health.