The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-01-04
REV THOMAS DIXON JR


Rev. Thomas Dixon j IS just
now being sharply criticised by.
great many newspapers Of The part
lsan mold for this style = pre- ach
ing. Mr.. Dixon has aiv ay- pea he'd
practical sermons, applyIu fAr t-l'Z
ious truths that he prese 't~ :" the
evils Of the day, III pohrIc- pU-.a-ss, |
and the social world. Inc ct a., oli |
opinion any otn'r Pl-.s.n' = H. more |
or less humbne aud fat -, FpI
some time pat the arpu ii iot> OF |
his sermons has been Civ. To the |
dangers aud growing evils OF mono
poly. He rightly saw, and has cor
rectIy said, that there is no religion
in the majority of the great monop
lies that effects our commerce and
our finances. In fact he has shown
that they are run on principles dia
metrlcally opposed to the teachings
Of the man of Galilee. Ia his ar
guments againt these growing evils
he was bound to advocate the same
principles Of reform laid down by
the Alliance and the Peoples Party
with reference to trans portation and
finance. For indeed the principles
OF the Alliance are based upon the
teachings Of the Christ Of Nazareth.
/ In as much as tle Democratic and
the Republican parties are in CO.
partnership with these great evils
! which Mr.. Dixon has been exposing,
no doubt the organs of these parties
haye been anxious to critici5e him
and his sermons but they dare not,
because if they attack his teachings
and arguments they must present
arguments to justify the resent con
dition of things. But recently Git is
repOrted) Mr.. Dixon declared him
self in favor of the Peoples Party.
This gave the goldbugs and monop-
oily organs the pretext they were
looking for. They do not now at
tempt to meet his arguments, but
simply cry out "political preaching"
"third-partyism,' as al answer to
all the truths that he is presenting.
We regret that Mr.. Dixon declared
himself a Populist, for while it will
help the Peoples Party, yet it will
to some extent damage his influence.
1t is true that minister Of the pos
pei ought to have the courage to ad-
vocate the right no matter what the
circumstances are, but we must re
member also that St. Paul must have
been thinking about the partisan
and prejudiced fools of the world
and how they are duped by the poll
teal hypOcrits when he said, that
you must be all thiggs to all men
that you may save some. We know
some men who claim to be christ
Ians, yet who will not accept a
christian truth if you put the Me-
thodIst label on it. They will reject
the truth even when they know it Is
true, simply because they are pre-
JUDGED against the label. And so
will other men, if you were to put on
christian truth the Baptist label or
the Presbyterian label, or the Epis-
copal label, they would have none
of it,-they would rather go to hell
than to be saved through that chan
mel. The same is true of the pollti-
cal world. Mr.. Dixon has been do
ing grand work, preaching not on
ly the religion Of Jesus Christ, but
the politics of Christ. He has been
preaching the politics that accord
with true christianity, but now that
he has given the partisan papers a
chance to put label on his politics,
the man who loves the label more
, than he loves the truth, OF rather
who hates another label (besides his
LABEL more than he loves the truth
, will now find an excuse for refusing
to accept the teachings 50 forceably
presented by Mr.. Dixon.
Mr.. Dixon is now preaching exact
ly the same kind of sermons that he
has been preaching, but we repeat
that for the sake of the label-egats
we are sorry that he has seen fit to
J put a label on the truth. But there
is this consolation, it will give fools
, a chance to show their littleness and
weakness.