Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-08
A Justified Roast.

one kew. M MeeSer, OF NJ MaSSaChu SettS,
WHO, when poor orphan boy, was
taken by the managers of the Stephen
Girard College for tie education of or
phan boys, and given thorough edu-
cation, is at present pastor of the
First Baptist church of Worcester.
Mass, and draws a salary of So 500 a
year. When asked to contribute to
fund being raised to erect monument
to the memory of Stephen Girard, he
declined, stating that ''his views touch
ing Girard and the religious side of his
nature would not admit of his doing
honor to the man." Brann's Incono-
clast, published at Waco, Texas, very
Justly "roasts' the Rev. Meeser. the
following being part of the scathing
rebuke administered:
''Tf we may judge a tree by its fruit,
there is small danger that Stephen
Girard missed salvation. If he be ins
deed in hell, 1 pray the good Lord to
send Meeser elsewhere, for to be com.
PEELED to associate through all eternity
with creature SO contemplate were
to add insult to injury and derise
deeper damnation than spike tailed
devils and burning birthstone. I'D
rather be in hades with Girara than
Lave to breathe the same atmosphere
with his defamer. Ed rather be a
hungry hyena and rob graveyards IA a
lazar colony than an impudent preacher
guilty of base ingratitude. I'd rather
be maggot in the cafcass of a male
than minister who damns his fellow.
men for not seeing the plan of saliva
ton through his smoked sectarian mi
croscope. I'd rather BE- an itch bac-
illus in a suppurating sofe than sane
tilted simiaR straddling about on his
hind legs and hinging filth at the eafse
of the man who paid fer the meat on
its bones. Yes. have found the
meanest man in AmeHiea. His eSis-
tence confutes the theefy Of the sarei-
val of the fittest and suggest that man
kind is merely malaaor. His eharae.
ter casts shadow "a the sua. He
has cirrhosis of the soul. His heart
is green worm that feeds "a gall.
His bowels of compassion are Pc tri-
fed. If his milk af human kiddn ess
were churned the product would ke
imburger cheese. He has mo raj
strabismus and carries his brains in hrs
belly. His odor of sanctity would give
pole-cat commissions. He per veFts
the doctrine that ''faith without works
fls dead" To sit beneath the drinpfngs
of his sanctuary were like gettiag Inte
a cataclysm of sheep dope. Massa.
chusetts is welcome to Meeser.s We
have one tree in Texas on which we
have hanged 81 better men-and they
are all in hell.
off Meeser carries his soul in his
purse rolled up in a postage stamp or
encased in a 2-grain capsule, he could
have saved both his credit and his cash
by pleading that old Stephen Girard
needs neither tablets of brass nor mon
uments of marble to perpetuate hi:
memory. ga grateful people will pas:
1 the name of this true nebleman o
nature from sire to son adown all the
| shining centuries. Such men art
heavens sent, and their lives are star!
of hope. When we contemplate the
! littleness and meanness of the world
its show and seeming, its baseness anc
brutality. adj dreams of mans high des
tiny vanish in sulphur smoke, and ever
faith in the Almighty fails; but we lif
our eyes and lol a Christ or Guatam;
| lshines radiant through the gloom.