The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-03
SCORES DIXON.
Mrs. Grannis Announces Her
Theory of Morality
And POintedIy Protests Against
His Sermon.
HE CRITICISED HER.
Has But a Single Standard For
Chastity
And Begs Rev. Thomas Dixon,
Jr., to Have Charity.

New York, Dec. 3-AIrs. Elizabeth B.
Grannis has written the following let
ter in reply to a sermon delivered by
the Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr., in which
Mrs. GranniS was criticised for alleged
statements concerning the recent south
ern outra ges:
My attention has been called to the
accusation of the Rev. Thomas Dixon
Jr., his text being: a mans foes shall
be they of his own household This
text will furnish a multitude of ser
mons with varied application, some OF
which are more pertinent than others.
Brother Dixon and myself are both pro-
fessed disciples of Jesus of Nazareth.
We belong to the same household of
the same kinship to our Elder Brother,
the Redeemer of the world from sin
and its consequences Who is the
greater enemy of Christs household,
the funny man. of the world, the smart
reporter or my reverend brother, Thorn
as Dixon Jr.?
eff Mr. Dixon had read the papers
as attentively a few days later as d.
rectly after the meeting, doubtless he
would have seen the correction and de-
NAL of the malicious report of my re-
marks with reference to the chaSte
white womaLhOod of the south. In
those denials I definitely stated that L
had never seen or heard of a white wo-
man in the south who possessed drop
of negro blood in her veins. am con-
strained, by reading the frantic TRADES
against me in the southern press and
the obscene epithets hurled at me in
personal letters purpOrting to be writ
ten by the chiValrOuS southern gentry,
to believe that the crime committed
against the origin of life by white men
and negro women is of little moment
compared with the crime against the
origin of life between white women and
negro men.
Single Standard For Chastity.
at have always believed in and taught
the single standard for chastity. 1t
would now appear that the world, the
flesh and the devil, as well as a great
portion of the church, are united against
the single standard of purity. Is not the
male man to be held as accountable for
evil-doing in the church as the female
man? My life-work has not been con-
fined to any one department of service
for the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom
in the hearts of men. No insane wo-
man or one of erratic temperament has
ever made record similar to mine. I
can lay no just claim to talent or gen
ius of any sort, while have proven
myself judicious., faithful plodder
along many lines of Christian and edu-
cational Improvement. After II years
of constant association with me as my
contributing editor, Dr. Howard Cros-
by said, not only to me, but in public
that was the most careful, judiciou5
woman worker that he had ever been
associated with. I think any unpreju-
diced mind will admit that I have
shown no insanity in the management
as editor and proprietor Of the Church
Union for % years and months; the
ChiIdren's friends and Kindergarten for
seven years, in my house keeping for
50 years. in the management of my own
family with from two to four negro
servants without intermissiOn for 81
years, or the aid and help I have rem
dered to the insane and other depend
ents during most of my life to the pres
ent day.
One Instance Og Devotion.
During the last year have followed
the only son of a German Hebrew
widow through Bellevue to Wards Is
land, from Wards Island to the Flat
bush asylum, from there to the Kings
Park asylum, and last Wednesday our
Heavenly Father answered yes to the
oft-repeated supplicatiOns of prayer
and service with the doctors, superin-
tendents and attendants as truly as to
the infinite love of the great Jehovah
for His suffering and afflicted people,
when I received the blessing, next 10
that of his mother, as the ship sailed
out of New YOrd harbOr with mother
and son on board. leaving a little.
faithful few on the dock, giving thanks
to Almighty God as we had never done
for any friend or relative we had seen
sail out to freedom that we had been
instruments to gain.
Will Look After Mr.. Dixon.
''If am justly or uniustly incarcera-
ated in a lunatic asylum, before my
brother, the Rev. DR.. Thomas Dixon,
meets similar fate, I trust he will be
more considerate in his Judgment of
the facts in the case before he leaves
me there to my fate. I will give him
and the public my promise now, that
if he gets there before do, I will con-
secrate my best efforts to his liberia
ton if he is unjustly judged