The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-03-28
Babbler Earnestly Swings Her Pen
In Defense of the Truly Good
and Holy.
There Are Good People in All
Churches, and Christianity
Makes HypOcricy Possible.
BE THOU HOLY.


But unlike it, being a woman, l com
not speechless. When l read the length,
effusion and the short notice in you
columns against sanctifcation, it wa
only by placing my tongue between m!
teeth, and sitting on the opposite side o
the room from my writing desk, that
could refrain from writing and lettin,
some one, older and wiser than !, give
your correspondent friendly lecture.
When | hear any one tying to make
light of sanctifcation, am reminded o.
a familiar scene, little dog barking al
the moon, but the moon is so far above
the dog that it sails on. Even so with
the sanctifed believers, they live on
such high plane, that such cutting
does not reach them. One friend speaks
of the drunken Baptist and sanctified
Methodist making a mockery OF relig-
ion." | am sure that drunkard has no
religion, and would be fearful of tread
ing on dangerous ground and commit
ting the objectionable sin" did l de-
nounce truly sanctiied believer. When
/ read the articles felt like saying "For-
give, for they know not what they do"
Both claim to be friends of the News,
and, secret can tell, both are causing
the editor to loose, not only subscribers
but correspondents by such articles OF
course every sensible person believes in
sanctification or holiness, for without
holiness no man shall see the Lord.
Then isn't it strange that a man would
write against it? Icant conceive how
a woman could do such, for even il she
did not believe in all the doctrine of the
bible, think she would remain silent
and not expose her ignorance. If
were man, woman, boy, or girl. and did
not believe in sanctfcation would never
again pray the Lords prayer, or the one
given to the disciples, or 1 would leave
out THY will be done on earth as it is
in Heaven" What is the will of God ?
Turning to a little red backed book that
l received long ago / read "This is the
will Of God, even your sanctifcation.
That settles it for me. But then He
wants His will done on earth as it is in
Heaven. Consulting the same standard
as well as classical work, find there is
no SHINING in Heaven. But up steps a
little specimen of humanity, twirling
his baseball mustache three out, side
out and says, my friend we all sin,
"there is none good, no not one." Ianswer.
no, not by nature, and looking at him |
begin to wonder, If Darwin's theory is |
true. Just as am going to ask, "what
is that? upScomes the thought God made |
it, let's call tia man. Yes l have heard |
ministers stand up and say 81 sin every
day, every hour, every minute" Right
then would like to be in the amen cor
ner and halloo "Amen the biggest sin
ner in town can't beat you"
You may ask me il l think such a
one was called. Perhaps he is like the
little boys pups. The day the Republican
candidates spoke he introduced them,
for sale. as Republican pups. The next
week the Democratic candidates spoke
and again the pups were for sale, but
this time they were Democrats. Being
questioned in regard tie the change the
boy readily replied Eyes but you see
they have got their eyes open now"
Perhaps that minister will get his eyes
open then when he opens his bible and
reads "He that committeth sin is of
the devil, he will fall down and
get forgivent IS, then he is ready for
the command "Be thou holy" and he
will find that as binding as the one
"Thou shalt not murder" When man
tells me he sins constantly feel like
saying, Brother you know yourself bet
ter than do, so will agree with you"
II we believe all this, why should we
doubt this when man tells us that he
lives above sin. is tempted but has pow
er TO resist. Prejudice keeps our eyes
shut. Put man on his knees before
God, and he is honest, but when he gets
up he wants to be popular. 1t is true
we can't all see alike, and 30 we need
the different churches. Christ says 81
am the vine ye are the branches"
Some OF us may not believe in the
Catholic church, but that is no reason
that we should denounce the confession
Al and pronounce the priest worse than
an infdel, or the equal of the Norman
elder. yet II is just as unreasonable to call
members Mormans. We may
not believe in baptism for the remis-
ZION OF sins" still We would be unkind
lid we say all members OF that church
were Christians in name only. Then
we might not believe in ''close commu-
nion," but that is no reason why we
should say all Baptist ministers carry a
bottle, and would be far from saying that
III members OF that church drink on the
,ly l am inclined TO think there are
rood members in all churches, aud 1t is
lnkind and ungentlemanly to attack the
peculiar doctrines OF any one. We all
emember, In the long ago, a ''little
band" came 10 our country In order that
hey might "worship God according to ,