The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-09-13
THE GREAT Two IS.
REPLY TO REV. J.. 4. sCARBoR-
OUGH.



To the two big SIS must bow,
| For Memo is but dead duck now.
Since Balaam's ass that on Zophim spa5e
There has been no stir like these SIS
make.
The world may its death dirge now indite
Since even the SIS have essayed "a write.
Bro. Scarborough, our big
brother, pitches into Memo this
week to riddle up the man who
was only reviewing the preach
er s work, and until the two SIS
fired their big Krupp canons,
Memo always thought the Bapti. t
ministers kept open house, and5
unlike the Catholics, invited their
laymen to review their work, bt t
the shut-mouth policy that we
deprecate when we speak in books
and pulpits, finds no counterpart
when articles come out in a great
paper like the Gazette, calling
attention to ministerial short com.
ings.
Bro. Scarborough says that
every preacher felt the shock of
Memo $ gun, and that it was a
flash of lightning falling from the
heavens and flashed everywhere
and hit nothing. Fortunately
Memo has no power over the red
artillery of heaven, and conse-
quently what Bro. S. states here,
is very wide of the truth. His ar
gument that it hit nothing may
also be denied, as the two big SIS,
living each in counties outside OF
the one in which the Gazette is
printed, must have either been
hit or thought they smelled hot
shot, from the resonance of their
replies, which have gathered vel
ume from their emptiness alone,
like the noise Of dogs when they
bark in empty barrels.
My good Bro. S, No. > must
have gotten his legs out of the
traces when he comes out against
Memo $ preacher chapter as he
terms the very few remarks made
| in his fret letter, and it required
the reading OF 6 or Z columns be-
fore he could ascertain that iU was
the three candidate ministers that
| Memo was after, when in truth
| Memo did not then, at his first
writ ng. even know that Bro. S /.
was running in another county.
| Our brother gives large prom-
nenco to himself when he says Of
those three ministers, who ran for
office, prominent among whom |
claim to be one. Nov self praise
is said to be half scandal and this
assertion that he Nas a prominent
minister does not speak well for
MIN; but political canvass is not
the best place for minister TO be,
as the finer Christian graces are
rarely developed there. He also
brags some on his purity in refer
ence to his motives as compared
with Nemo's. Now Memo claims
not purity compared with Bro.
SIS. He, Memo, has no grace
or strength outside of Christ the
living vine by whom he is simply
kept.
The only reason why Memo iL :
troduced the three ministers who
had stood for office, was because
Bro. Schilling had asserted that
she knew no minister of note who
is not striving constantly and
zealously to develop his people in
Christian graces." Now to meet
this wild assertion Of Bro. SchiIl-
ing, Memo began to look over the
ministerial roster and found there
that Bro. Scarborough also had
been one Of the three, and a
prominent one as he asserts, who
had left the tents of Israel for the
flesh pots Of Egypt-the service
of Christ to look after the cross
that. glitters on the Australian
ballot, and the latter cross was
placed against other names and
Bro. SIS was left out.
There could have been but two
reasons for leaving Bro. Scar
borough at home. 1st. He is a
good preacher. His pulpit work
is nearly all tenderloin steak and
the people knew it and refused to
spoil a good preacher to make a
poor legislator; so taking the val
J ue of the two crosses into consid-
Grafton together with the extreme
prominence of Bro. S, and the
self purity he applies to himself,
they gave the preference to the
cross of Jesus, and the Austria
lian ballot placed the crosses to
other names. Thus the political
MEME, MEME, TEKEL UPHARsIN, oi
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