The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-04-05

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Dident Paul preach a sermon on faith
and quote Moses and Elijah and speak
of the very miracles they performed!
4 T confess that was shocked when /
$ read the Rev. Cadman S new departure
from the faith Of the fathers and still
more shocked when the 400 cheered
him. It seems that they we're not
surprised, for Cadman had been for
some time delivering himself on this
same linz, and had made many con-
yerts among them. ''Our belief must
conform to human reason, said he,
and yet theeidiot can t tell how his
will raises his hand, nor how he winks
his eye, nor how the leaves Of the tree
expand and grow and all conform to
the same shape and. size, nor how the
rose takes on it's beautiful colors. All
nature is miracle and gives evidence
Of the existence Of Supreme Being,
and it is only the fool who saith in
his heart there is no God, or that
there is no truth in the Old Testament.
So far as I am concerned, / feel as if
/ I was nothing, and less than nothing
in the scale of existence, for do not
know whence [ came nor where [ am
going, nor by what power think, nor
what makes my heart to beat while l
am sleeping. III did not put my
trust in a great and good Creator in
whom live and move and have my
being would be most miserable. He
made me and he will take care of me.
The Bible las stood as the bulwark
and foundation Of the Christian faith
for nineteen centuries and now the
j Rev. Cadman and these 400 propose to
strike down and a2ninilate the Old
Testament. Moses and the prophets
and the ten commandments must go,
|; for they cannot strike out the miracles
and leave the rest to stand. AS yet,
we have seen no reply to or explana-
ton Of this astounding departure from
the faith of the fathers. Are the
! times out Of Joint in the closing Of
! this century? Are wars to continue !?
Are mobs to administer the law? Are
negro soldiers to tramp through this
good!y land and outrage our people and
make them desperate?
This reminds me of a letter that
Bishop Turner wrote to US in kind re-
membrance of our late wedding. I
have known this eminent negro
preacher for thirty-fve years and never
knew anything but good Of him. In
1865 he was at Rome and used his
talents and eloquence in pleading for
peace between the races and in giving
his people good counsel. | remember
his public address there on one occa-
sion, during reconstruction times,
when he and Albert Berrien both
threw themselves within the breach,
and how they counseled the insolent
Spanish captain and provost marshal,
De La Mesa, to stop arrestlng the
] white people on every trivial COM
/ plant Of the negroes. They had good
influence over that conceited and re-
vengefui officer and alarmed him into
milder treatment of the rebel traitors,
as he called us. There is something
very touching and pathetic in this
long-continued devotion Of Bishop
Turner to his people. He has lived
to see them all free and many Of them
to prosper, but his Encouragement has
at times almost driven him to despair.
He sees the alienation between the
races is growing wider and deeper and
that it has arisen more from political
factors aud for political purposes than
from race, color or condition. He
sees not less than 1000 Of them in
the chaingangs Of Georgia and a like
proportion in the other southern
States, when there was not one IN
slavery days, and all this in the face
of degree Of education that the
African never had before, for it is
fact Of record that IS per cent Of these
.convicts can read and write and but
few Of them are old enough to have
known what slavery was before tho
q war. He has lived to read Of a thou
sand outragcs and thousand lynch
3 ings when there was not oncin SLAYER.
days. No wonder he is begging ano
pleading with his people to so tc
Africa.
Here is part Of his letter to US:
aBill Arp, Esq.-Dcar Doctor
Please permit member of the JUNO
race. or as you arc pleased to call it
| the inferior race, to tender you an'