The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-19
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.

are most In the way Of peace are ed itors
and preachers. The editors want some
scanGal to feeA their readers on and
the abuse of the SouJafis like regular
stock in trade and is always In
mand. 1t is a good cement for the
party and keeps 1t solid, for Il their
readers differ on home politics they
can always harmonize by abusing g}i,s.;
Tho leading Now York Republican
paper IL just as malignant since Mo-
Kinley made his Southern tour ss II 4
was before. Mr. Mckinley played on
the harmonican, but The Press wof,'t
dance to the music. a
AS for the preachers, nv candid 3
opinion Is tho majority OF thom have
no moro real religion than did Henry
: Ward Boechcr. Like the editors, thev
rtely on sensation to fill their pews Fad
their puckets. With " few exceptions.
their Thanksgiving sermons had
neither love to God nor charity TO man,
aud they went out Of the text to give
the South clam Or u stab. | used to
have great respect and reverence for
ministers Of the gospel. l really be-
itevod thoy were oil ordained oI God
for tho sacred calling, but in mytlster
years that reverence has weakened
and 1t seems to me now that most of
them are only ordained of men. The
pulpit, both North and South, has.
been degraded and has lost it's high
standard. Hardly week passes but
somo preacher has committed some
crime and created q sensation.
ChuGchcs aro torn asunder and the
people divided into bittcr factiOns.
Sensational preaching Is the order OF
IN" day, anu cYery now and then o
scandal with a woman in the case oc-
ours. Undtgnified and bitter con-
troVcrslcs In tho newspapers feed the
public mind and delight those who are :,
outside OF tho pale Of the church. |
was called on yesterday for charity for
poor, unfortunate family that lives u
lew miles away, and was Informed that
inc only daughter, girl OF seventeen,
who could help tho aged couDlo at all,
had married an old Baptist preacher
& sixty and after IL few weeks he
nSsndoncd her and left for parts un-
known. Tho story 10 u pathetic
ono and he ought TO DO caught and
sent TO Indiana aud lynchcd. This
lowering OF tho standard Of morality
and good old-fashloned Christian pas
toral preaching is especially noticeable
IN the Two great leading dcnomina-
tlons OF the South | am grAtiiied to
| say that tho Prcsby Jcrian and Episc0. ,
pal churches have not yet shocked the ]
public with any ministerial scandal,
though their preachers are as Il class
Inferior IN pulpit ultqucncc to those Of
hall century ago. No minister Of
tho Olden time would have carriv d his
scctarianlsm so far as to sock to eX-
pungo from tho Presby terian hymn
| book that bcau,iful hymn:
"ThCrc is Il fountain filed with blood
| Drawn from lmnanucl's vein,
| Aud sinnors plunged beneath that Hood,
| Lose all their guilty stains"
This hymn WIS composed by Will
liam Cowpcr, tho poet, and Is en-
, | Dalmcd in tho sweetest memories of
our Childhood. But this preacher
wishes to have it cXpunrcd becanse
he says the third line smncks OF baptism
by INN ersion. Oh, my country And
now some Of our Atlanta and6&es,, ..ills
preachers arc ventilating their 5x,ol .$.I
cal opinions about the war and ssth,
Pnlllippincs in their pulpits. tn ~,
lsgust OF every heare who diffeys wifi
them. They forget that the pllpit i I, /,
not theirs, and their call was to praacI
tho gospel-not politics. ~ -
| Veil, L suppose that some Of nn
soldier boys OF tho late war will so5r
90 on tho pension rolls. L see thai
| NeJ WV VI "h OHlO regiment have
already applied. Ohio beats tha wnrId
on pensions, and has learned all Fthe
tricks OF tho business. One man tnr
thoro was recently detected in hav,na :
drawn three pensions for tho naat ius
years. During tho war he was trans.
! forrod three times, and 80 ha ND a.
three different applications In iiffarant 4
counties, and his sore leg went ttron1h Il
all right, and he now tells thai has 6is i
lawyer put him up to it, and he eave
the lawyer one pension and ha Tsent
Two. Tho general opinion at Wasb !
ingtOn Is that at least one.half IN,
pensions granted are frauos. Rmt na,,.
olon money circulates freely, and tbat
Is good thing, and when it oata ~
circulating down horo among OUT. bnvs
W won't complain. e S's ~. 2 :
Wcll, we had u good old-fashionad
CHRISTMAS at our house, and we've
thankful that no aflilction or, celan,itv
had be fallen us during the past swaar
we had sixteen OF the posterftv 81 tba
festive board, and they did eat t,lrkay
ana et cotnras amazing. Next MarcSh
comes our golden wedding, and than
oil the distant boys and their wivaa
ana children are to gather at the
inumliy mansion, and my wife and /
| Wili DC calm and serene. I read in a
mo insurance paper that onlv ona
married couple in 1000 live to9athar
hity years. And 80 tho event o,ioht ~
~ '''0'''"'o"' BILL ARP.
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