Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-02-21
1.-THE ARENA"
To Which Rev. ]. w. McGarvey
Of the Christia Church Of
Lexington, Will SOOn
Contribute q TheolOg.
zeal Paper.

me why did not read the Are
ma" telling me that it maintained
my theological views.
Last week some friend sent me
anonymously a leaf cut from this
magazine, asking me to put it in
the Blade, and adding "that's the
way you talk"
You saw the greater part of il
that 1 published in the last issue
and just as 1 was closing up my
paper for the press Mr.. B. F. Will
liams, a member of the Christian
Church in this city, and whose
father was a prominent member in
that church. called at my office and
gave me the first copy of the mag
azine that have ever seen.
1t is the February number.
l never saw such book before
If had had the ordering of the
number there is not a sentence in
it that would have omitted.
l have read Tolstoi and "Robert
Elsmere," and "Light of Asia"
and have Darkest England" and
l have told you that something
like a millennium was canning, and
that I was daily looking for the
modern John the Baptist, the Elias
that is to come as the harbinger of
the new regime.
In the editor of this magazine l
find the very ideal of the man l
am looking for. His name is B.
y. Flower, and the temptation to
say he is "daisy' is simply ire
sistable.
1t is the only book l ever read
in which the most highly cult
waited men and women disposition
ately and candidly and honestly
discussed the leading issues of the
day, and in the interest Of good
morals called things by names that
enable US to understand what they
mean, without any fear of public
censure, and without once shrink.
ing from the fear of the charge of
indelicacy, when they come to talk
about the evils of society, over
which false modesty has thought
proper to throw a veil; when the
fact is that they are the very things
that the good of society demands
shall be unveiled and laid open to
the MONDAY glare of the sun, or
the most intense electric light at
midnight.
1t calls spade spade in relig-
ion, politics or sociology.
Its editor is the only editor ex
cept him of the Blade, after whom
l have ever read, who editorially
writes IL" instead of the ordinary
editorial "We."
The magazine is published
monthly in Boston. 1t is the kind
of book that Kentucky wants.
Judge Stevenson, whose letter
to me appears in this issue, is a
good Christian Prohibitionist and
citizen, but he is mistaken in the
policy to advance the Prohibition
party. Ifany proposition is true,
the more you say for it or against
it the more evidently false il will
appear.
Judge Stevenson says l must
not talk about Col. Ingersoll and
my book. Katherine Dunning
Clark says l ought to do 80; says
she has read my book twice and
wants me to write another one,
and l am willing that anybody
shall lay her letter in the Blade
side by side with that OF Judge
Stevenson, and answer which
shows the more love for Prohibi-
ton and for moral purity, and
which shows the more genius, and
breadth of thought and experience.
Judge Stevenson does not think
that Prohibition paper ought to
talk about Emma Abbott; and
can't see any connection between
her and Prohibition. You never
saw q theater advertisement in the
Blade and are not likely to see
one. / want to feel free to discuss
the drama; to commend that Of it