The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-10-14

action, Memo wrote, 1T was a
very sad commentary on the re-
iigio1 of the Baptist denomina
ton, and in the whole article Of
s5S words, no other mention is
made Of any denomination, and
If Bro. Schilling had not been for
years wearing an unrubbed pair
vi very UNCONVENTIONAL glasses,
he could nave seen no kind OF in
suit in the words.
When | say our Congress, do |
mean only the Mississippi delega-
tion, or do l not mean the entire
Congress? When | say our Leg
islature, n understood to mean
only the Pike county portion of it,
or all the Legislature OF the state f?
Ii say our army, am | to be un-
derstood as meaning just the
quota that goes from our state,
or all the troops who are mar
shalled beneath the starry ban
ner? Ii | write our country. am
| TO be understood as meaning
only Mississippi, or the whole
wide spreading band Of sister
states from Maine to Mexico?
Why then, when | say "our
preachers" should | be repre-
sented as meaning only the Bap-
tist preachers, and not allow me
the same Identical latitutnde Of
meaning accorded me in all the
above expressions? Why should
| oe re -tricted i'll the o word
preachers, and left free in all the
others? Oh shame! where is thy
blush?
1t is asserted that as | am a
Baptist, that | meant on'y Bap-
lists. This is an assertion not
sustained by the verbiago Of the
Indictment, nor by logic, common
sense or testimony especially as
Dr.. Scarborough has said in his
last astonishing article, that Memo
- likes one denomination as well
as another and better too.' Now
after this strong testimony why
should Bro. Schilling come out
aud insis5 that Memo meant Bap-
tist preachers and mono Others?
The genesis of language teaches
that where plural nouns without
limitations are used, that there
must be an antecedent prefix to
limit their signification and local.
ize their meaning, and keep The
wide spreading noun from cover
ing all the earth and all the Phil
ippines besides. You can fetter
general plural noun in no other
way, and Bro. Sohilling. who is
said to have been president OF
school board and perhaps presi-
dent of college, should have
known this fact. He should by
all means have been kinder to
himself, if he had nothing OF the
love of human kindness towards
his brother, who has always stood
his friend, than to have launched
out 10 combat an old gladiator.
even if he was but a piney woods
layman, and to cruelty himself
before the public by endeavoring
to prove an allegation, with no
testimony to back his assertion.
He can manufacture no proof
by logic, synecdoche or syllogism.
Hecannot get inferential evidence
either by circumstance or impli.
cation. He lacks the missing
link, like Darwin did, for there
are three great period stops that
destiny has interviewed between
the words ''Baptist denomina-
tiod' and 'four preachers, I" and
he is dead as Caesar was when he
fell at the base of Pompey's statue
SO far as proof is concerned.
If at the outset he had read over
closely Nemo's article of August
I'd, and not jumped at conclusions
but examined what he could bring i
up in way of proof, he would have
escaped great personal mortifica-
ton and have saved himself the
humbling spectacle of being be-
fore the people without an iota Of
proof, that any court would or
could recognize.
Memo declined to draw atten.
ton to the views he now presents
at first. He thought he would
let the brother go on and tie him.
self up into a Gordian knot and
then show him how he stood le-
gally before the people.
Memo has written lengthiIy, |
but he has two great antagonists.
He would say now that he trusts
Bro. Schilling will take up the
thread of argument, confine him.
self to the Indictment and prove
therefrom that the words sour