The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-25
GOV. MORRILL, AMP REV. EMBRY.

Reverend Embry, of Topeka, on Sun
day last. denounced Governor Morril
as "characterless. The speech viii
hurt Embry and the cause which ht
claims to represent, more than it viii
hurt the governor. Mr.. Embry claims
| TO be an ambassador of Him who il
creating all enacted laws for the gov
eminent of all, among which Were a
few laid down for humanity. Mr.
Embry comes under the last head. Does
he claim that he never violates any OF
the commands of the Divine? If he
should say he does not he is presum-
ably hypOcrite. If he admits that
ito err is human" then why should he
prove so harsh in his judgments of his
fellow men, especially of those who
| have not been blessed with the regen-
GRAFTON which lifted him from the mire.
Mr.. Embry was not made the good
| man that he is by human penalties but
| rather by divine compassion. God
| Furnishes the unrepentent Incorporate,
and Embry might well therefore re-
pent if he would shun the penalty of
such a speech, even though he should
repudiate the command laid upon him
to respect his rulers. Rev. Embry Will
excuse us for saying that he can save
a greater number Of men and more
surely by preaching the gospel and by
persuasion than he ever can by filming
them and putting them in jail. We
were not all cooped up on this earth to
be made fit for eternal life by being
fined and imprisoned, but rather TO
work out our salvation in fear and
trembling. The human governments
which have through ecclesiastical zeal
resorted to Imprisonment, TO the rack
and screw of the inQuisition, and to
penal transportation, have not proved
brilliant examples Of success in elevat
ing the standard of morality. Christ
did not confne his eating and drinking
to the company of his disciples. His
loving words of persuasion and COM
passion were for sinners, His denun-
Citations for hypocrites Better drop
your "characterless," Mr.. Embry, and
instead thereof 'loye one another"
There is both the law and the prophets
in that and what is better than these
eternal life" Whited sepulchres are
beautiful only on the outside Be wise |
as serpent, but don't forget the char |
acter of the dove. for the harvest is !
plenteous-for laborers, not for fight |
ers. If you would be the light of the |
world grid up you loins and serve God, |
not by denunciations and cries for the |
blood Of those who should be convinced |
rather than cursed. Can there any |
good thing come out of Nazareth |
There did, and so also there viii be |
found more than three just persons in
Wichita and Leavenworth and Atchi-
son, respectively. The wind bloweth
where it listeth and Topeka is full of it,
also. Remember Lots wife. and don't
forget the busybodies speaking things
which they ought not. You are COM
to resist the devil, not to go out
Of the way to find him just for the sake
Of Il scrap. Our New Testament has
more in it, but it is all Of the same
tenor Of the above besides it reads
more impressively out of the book than
in newspaper. Its the New Tesla
ment that We would commend to Rev.
Mr.. Embry eXhorting him to less poll
tics and more of the spirit of Christ
in his pulpit, for verify our information
IS that there is more politics than re-
igion in Topeka and more whiskey
han either.