The Colfax chronicle., 1890-05-10

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uncharitable, without being aware
of the fact! With this apology for
the closing sentence of our editorial,
We wish to say that we repeat and
reiterate minus all personality } the
balance of the article that our three
Magi have seen fit to reprimand
ps about Our three ministerial
friends assume the role of monitors,
whereas we fear they come much
nearer the mark of impertinent
meddlers, arrogating to themselves
the right to dictate the editorial
conduct of q newspaper not amen
able to them. Their letter bears
date Of April 18th, whereas Mont
gomery postmark shows it to have
been mailed May 1st, and i is fair
to assume that they had ample
time in twelve days to consider the
ridiculous attitude they were plac-
ing themselves in by thus seeking
to extort an apology. If We do
any one an injustice in the heat or
haste of controversy we are always
more than willing to make the
amende honorable, and q simple
pointing out of the injustice is all
sufficient to secure a retraction of
unnecessary or Extensively harsh
comment, but we deny the right Of
our friends to assume that we have
wilfully perverted Mr.. Boone's ut
terances, or desired to attack or
abuse the editor of their State
organ. His position gives him no
more right to the use of abuse and
invective than does ours, and he can
not be expected to be allowed to
indulge in the Wholesale abuse of
virtuous and honest people with
out being called to account We
also deny the correctness of the
platitude advanced by our mentors,
that the discussion of this or any
other ethical question is to be con-
fined wholly to controversy among
the religious or denominational
journals. Preachers and creeds are
as much a subject Of legitimate
criticism as anything else.
This editor is as anti Roman
Catholic as it is possible for any
Protestant to be; bat that does not
prevent him from perceiving the
Inconsistencies and intolerance of
Methodists, Baptists, or other de-
lightful UNCONVENTIONAL simpletons,
who mistake choler for christianity,
and illiberal views for zeal in the
Masters cause. It has been our
good fortune to have been brought
up in the lap of the church, as it
were; and, while q boy, we attended
Sunday school in Methodist, Bap-
tist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian and
Catholic churches. This may not
have made us as good as our three
censuring friends, but it gave us
the opportunity to discover that
there were a few good people be-
longing to all of the churches.
Although now past the mile stone
that marks the fortieth year of our
existence, we have yet to discover
any reason to change our views as
to the belief that some members of
the true church of Christ are to be
found among all denominations.
Good and bad mingle together in
all Of the branches of the church;
and, If the word of God is true, they
will continue in this condition, un-
til the millennium at least. The
tares may not be disturbed until
the wheat is matured; and the tares
are numerous in all denominations.
No one sect can lay claim to the
possession of all the honesty, vir-
tue and religion in the world, and
it is silly and preposterous for any
one of them to do so, either by
word or implication. While we
differ from them wa ara still cryn-