Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-13
NO. 40.

the longer such laws have existed the
bolder and more aggressive and def
ant has become the liquor power in
the State. Why! Because such laws
are league with hell and compr0-
mise with the devil. Howl They au-
thorize the sale of indulgeDccs to the
worst class of our citizens to sell Ii
quOr. while our court of last resort
says it could not be sold without such
indulgences. 1t is q repetition of the
cOrruptiDg influences that made it nec-
essary for God to raise up Luther;
and the condition is being fostered by
a combination of heartless politicians
and misguided Ecclesiastics just as
was the case Oh Luther's day. Mar
tin Luther possessed more faith in
God than exists in all the Bishops of
America today. He stood up at the
Diet of Worms in the presence of
combination of corrupt State officials
and apostate clergymen, and counting
himself and God u majority because
on the side of the right, he won his
case. All of the Bishops in America
have not tithe of his Christian brav-
cry. They have not enough faith in
the right for God to work through.
When it comes to counting numbers
they put the meanest liquor dealer in
the land against God, and then say we
haven't majority, and hence we can't
do anything but legalize the business.
Bishop Galloway and DR.. Black
may think they have carried God in
the liquor licensing business with
them, but they will find that they are
honestly mistaken.
While our Ecclesiastical Dignita.
ries are repeating history by fawning
before corrupt political power, God
is also repeating history by raising up
an army of understrikers with the
faith, and to fill the place of, a Lu-
ther. If the liquor traffic is ever sup
pressed in Mississippi, the very foun-
dation principle ofBishop Galloway's
excellent measure" the right of the
saloon to exist under the sale of in
ui@encies or license, must have a Sec
Ond Martin Luther to crush the life
out of it. aye cannot serve God and
mammon." Ye cannot force a COM
promise between hell and heaven.
The devil tried that with Christ, and
he has more ingenuity than all Of our
modern Bishops. Ye cannot harmon
ize the agencies ofChrist and the agen-
cies of the devil.
Every great reform of the past has
become necessary by reason of such
efforts made largely through an apOs-
tate Church. This spirit of coward
ice and want of faith in God manifest
ed by our modern church Oh the liquor
question is rapidly producing its fruit
unto corruption and its end unto de-
struction along other lines as we'll.
Judge Cooley, of Michigan, whose
reputation as Il jurist is fully equal to
that of C. B. Galloway as Bishop,
now comes to the front and proposes
to strike hands with the Bishop on
the principle and practice of licensing
an evil in order to restrict it by Ii
censing or taxing system of lOtter-
les, and thereby give to the United
States the benefit of such a system of
gambling houses as now exist at Bad
en- Baden or Monte Carlo. And, as if
not to be OutdOne in the rapid prog
ress and improvement of the age, Su-
perintendent Byrns, of New York
City, steps to the front and offers the
Bishop his hand by proposing to Off
set DR.. Parkhurst's proposition to
close up or prohibit brOthels and
houses of assignatiOn, by licensing
them with restrictions. And then as
thought along certain line begets
thought, the endorsement of the Mis-
sissippi licensing law, by Bishop Gal
loway, in great metropolitan reli-
gious iournal--the New York Inde-
pendent-and its characterization by
him as "the excellent measure" seem
to have stimulated the fertile brain of
the Rev. DIR. Rainsford, Rector of st.
Georges Protestant Episcopal Church,
of New York City, who offers our
Southern Bishop his hand on the
Southern liquor licensing question,
and proposes to rob the saloon of its
evils by making it a sort of church ap-
pendage, and having the best men in
the church to run it.
| Now, l challenge you. Brother Glib
son, and authorize you to extend the
challenge to Bishop Galloway, or any
other Christian gentleman who will
be courteous in discussion, to adduce
single reason in justification of the
Bishops excellent measure"-the
Mississippi liquor licensing law-that
does not apply with equal force and
reasonableness to the justification of
Judge Cooley's proposition to license
gambling, Superintendent Byrns' pro-
pysItiOn to license brOthels and hOus-
es of assignatiOn, and to the Rev. DIR.
RainSfOrd'S DrODOsitiOn to make the
saloon an appendage to the church
and have the best men in the church
to run it.
Now, my good Brother, come to
time, or else don't discount our be-
loved Bishops any more by wanting
our religious press to suppress fair
criticism of their political attitude
and utterances. Such things are hard
to be understood.