The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-09-09
AGAIN, is IT TRUE2
MEMO STILL GIVES US POETRY AND
LATIN, AND REMAINS AT i SAFE
DISTANCE FROM THE SUBJECT.

AS usual my friend Memo
lodges the question. He makes
bold assertions concerning the
unfaithfulness of preachers, but
when called on for proof he talks
about Don Quixote's wind mill,
quotes the language of Homer
and tells OF the army of Xerxes.
Memo makes objection to my US
ing the plural pronoun 1--WE. II
did this simply because he SO Of
ten says "our preachers" think
ing that | was included. This is
my excuse and leave the reader
to decide as to my right to use it.
Memo says: BRO. Schilling be-
gan this newspaper strife without
any kind of personal provoca-
ton. = Let us see about this.
1t is a fact that Memo has con-
stsntly criticised "our preachers
for quite while. Especially
has he contended that pastors
are careless about receiving
members into the churches, that
they merely want to swell num-
bers, etc. Only n short time
since he said, ''Our preachers
seem to desire no high attain
ments in grace, and he further
maintained that under such an
influence the people were de-
prived Of all incentives 10 a high
er life. Still later Memo declared
that ministers are public men,
representing the Baptist interest
OF our people, but he charged
that they pay little attention to
the spiritual portion of that inter-
est. Now, il Memo pleases, Il
consider myself included in these
statements, and yet he says there
is no kind Of personal provoca-
ton. What kind OF men does
Memo take us to be? Our self
respect, if nothing else. would
demand that such attacks be
answered.
Memo lectures me at consider
able length as 20 how I should
talk and write, and indeed, how |
should deport myself generally.
But alasl he does not take his |
own medicine, for his article
contains several filings which are
not very creditable to one who
has made such high attainments
in grace. His thrust about my
writings not containing poetry
and Latin was not born in a very
high atmosphere. For Memo IS
information | will say that | read
and translated Latin when in
school, and have not forgotten il
all yet. also know some poetry. |
But do not need these things in |
replying TO his wholesale attacks
on the ministry. He also speaks
sneeringly of my replies and calls
them quarreling. IL n m o
pleases, | am above that. I am
only defending the Baptist pull
pit, which have a right to do |
and which | expect to do.
Much ado is made over my adj
that we have some poor /
preachers and inefficient pastors. |
How strange this is, but it shows
Nemo's extremity. Any one
could see that spoke OF the ex-
ception and not the rule.
AS TO the preachers who were
in the July primaries, on account
Of which Nemo's righteous soul
is so sorely yexed, I have moth
ing to say, further than that | do
not favor preachers entering poll
tics. Memo, however, has not |
been after the candidate preach
er, but "our preachers. -
But Memo does profess his love
and respect as follows: 81 love
and respect all our ministers and
would be the last man in theI
world to cast reproach upon
Lhem." tits hard to see how Memo
can love and respect our ministers
when they seem to desire no high
attainments in grace, and when
under their influence the mem
ters are deprived Of all incen-
lives to a higher life. Particu-
larly is it difficult to understand
how ne can love and respect min
sters who pay little attention to
he spiritual interests Of our peo-