Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-03-26
ADVOCATING HYPOCRISY.

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for you to receive money from whiskey
dealers: it is right for me to receive it
1t is wrong for you to publish whis-
key dealers advertisements it is right
for me to do it.
But to the discussion. 1t is just as
sinful for a church to receive money
from q whiskey dealer as it is for
newspaper to do the same thing.
When a whiskey dealer makes do
nation to the newspaper, it is with the
distinct understanding that it is not to
influence the editorial policy OF the
paper in the slightest degree.
TO say that whissey dealer who
contributes to the church regularly is
not more Influential with the members
of that church than one who does not
is to ignore human nature.
II members of that congregation
have whiskey to buy. they are more Ii
able to purchase it from him than from
another who seems to have no interest
in their financial welfare.
1t may be said then that contribu-
tIons of this sort made in public could
be done for the influence it brings
even as contributions to the advertis-
ing department of newspaLer may be
made for the influence that it brings.
You put your own head In this hole.
Sow Eetit out as best you can.
The Saviour spoke OF giving aims be-
fore men, and it was no doubt for this
very reason
See Matthew 6:l--'Take heed that
ye do not your aims before men, to be
seen of them; otherwise ye have no
reward of your Father which is in
heaven. Therefore when theu doest
thine aims, do not sound trumpet
before thee, ss the hypocrites do in
the synagoguee and in the streets,
that they may have glory of men,"
It is worse for the VIRoISIA BAPTIST
religious journal that places the
whiskey dealers In the list Of moral
criminale and their business in the
category of crimes to receive money
from these same whiskeY dealers out
OF the profits Of their alleged nefari.
Gus profits, for the advertising of q
branch Of their business, than It is fol
the PLANET, secular journal to do the
same thing.
The VIRGINIA BAPTIST sends their in.
nocent patrons TO the bAr-room, the
whiskey-shop without telling them
that it is place of this kind.
The PLANET makes the announce.
ment that WHISTLES and wines may b,
found there. Those who desire t,
shun these temptations have an oppor
tunitY so to do.
Ore is duplicity, fra nd, deception
better expressed as hypocrisy. TIL,
her is opsn, fair. square dealing
The ems encourages the soda-watel
fountain with a whiskey spicket o.
spout. the other believes in hon, st,
wi the whiskey shop thrown open t,
the Light OF day.
The VIRGINIA BAPTIST will advertiz,
the whiskey-shop with grocery-stor,
entrance and blames a secular journa
for advertising grocery-store with
whiskey-shop entrance.
We characterize this as the lowest
code of ethics, disgrace to respecta
BILE religious journalism. reflection
upon the high calling which this ex
FOUNDER of the Scriptures represent
and the most disgraceful exhibition o
depravity ever witnessed in this com
monwealth.
Truly indeed says the Master il
Matthew 2S:27-2s,
"Woe unto you, scribes and Phari
sees, hypocrites for ye are like unit
whited sepulehres. which indeed ap
pear beautiful outward, but are within
full OF dead mems bones, and of all un
eleAnness.
Even so We outwardly appear right
eCus unto men, but within ye are full
of hypocrisy and iniquity."
You argue sir, even iRasmuch as VOL
have outlawed the sale of whiskey an,
declared the reception OF money from
the dealers therein as virtually dis
honest and wicked thing that it is prop
er for you to do it under a sham.
You will advertise hotel, with
house of prostitution annex according
to your reasoning and send the unwer,
and innocent to their ruin.
The VIRGINIA BAPTIST is in favor O
destroying whiskey and yet sends it
readers to the whiskey-shops. where j
is sold under the pretence OF buyinI
groceries.
The advocacy of such doctrine i
worse than heresy. 1t is sufficient t,
Justify the removal of the sanity cIotl
from your person and the RELOCATION O
your being to the ranks of the inebri
ates.
Far better to be open in wrong-doinI
than TO be hypocritical in virtue.
In the one there is hope of reform
in the other there is a certainty o
damnation.
When a whiskey-dealer makes do
nation to the church. there is no un
derstanding about it. No contract j
signed, no acknowledgements taken.
When a whiskey dealer makes con
tribution to the advertising depart
ment OF the PLANET, there is no under
standing aboutit. He pays his money
and the results are left to take care O
} themselves.
1t is hard, sir, for you to turn loose
that whiskey money which goes int,
coG RS for the support of your church
why should it be any less difficult 70
us 10 "turl loose" that which goes in
| to the C ners Of the PLANET, a journal
secular in its makeup and is run TO
the benefit Of thegpublic
You made the issue, now face tn,
music. Stop your flock from receivin,
money from whiskeY drinkers anC
whisky sellers, or attempt to do it
and get credit for honesty Of purpos,
or stand COnvictad of baino, ono % IL.