The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-09-13
allied him to do. Why should h,


The state house Of Jackson Is D
| moor old unsafe riekety building
| Bro. S. is q man like Falstaff, oil
large proportions physically, 4
man Of weight, far too heavy {,
ascend the defective stairways on
walk through the rotten corridors
OF the capitol, His presence in
that unsafe building would have
been a standing menace TO The
safety of the state, as well as to
himself. Now ii there had been
some law to have kept this heavy
man below stairs on ice, where
there are firm foundations, and
no danger could have come to the
governor and COL Power and the
other dwellers in the basement;
then he could have gone there.
Our brother it seems was willing
to risk his all OF ministerial and
personal purity that he says he
possesses in mounting into upper
and dangerous chambers, but
though he might willingly have
risked the soul, his constituents
we're not willing to risk the body.
In regard to trying ministers
before Nemo's s bar, | would re-
mind him that Memo has no bar,
neither for trial or drink, and
therefore tries no one. Bro. S.
though is reminded that there is
a bar on high where all are tried,
and one who teaches praying to
the devil is dangerous. Our
brother must have been largely
out Of sorts when he wrote his ar
ticle. He says: when the wick
ed rule the people mourn; when
the righteous rule the people re-
joice. = Now he does not apply
these remarks to Memo, as he
rules nothing; so it must apply
to the condition Of the people who
failed to nominate him, especially
as he has blown his own horn OF
purity loudly at his feast OF trum-
pets.
The funniest thing in Bro. S. 8
article is the prayer that he wishes
Memo to pray. 1t runs, "Lord
we want to have good men to rule
over US, if they can be had out
side the ministry; il not, we would
prefer the whole thing go to the
devil = Bro. S, should remem-
Der the country has about gone
| there now, and the sending up to
the senate man who asks his
friend to pray for the whole lay
out TO go to the devil, bespeaks
large ministerial declension, even
though it comes from a sol DIsANT
prominent minister, whose duty
should be TO preach Christ.
The difference between the
prayer Bro. S. here lays down
for one Of his brethren to pray
and the one our Master has taught
US, is widely different, and every
one who reads his prayer sample,
will be surprised. Bro. S. should
quit posing as leading religious
light, or scrub politician one.
"Ye cannot serve God and Mann
mon, and his desire that Memo
should pray for the devil to take
land and country under certain
contingencies, bespeaks a fearful
falling from grace. Prayers ask.
ing the old man in black to take
the land, does but lily become a
preacher Of note, even if he be
one Of the candidatal three, OF
whom he is the leading Triumvir.
His remarks are sad backings
up Of Bro. Schilling' s IPsE DIxIT
that "he knew no minister OF
note who was not constantly and
zealously striving for the devel-
opmentofC Christian graces among
his people. +" IL looks as ii the
SIS would divide and throw each
other overheard.
The grayamen OF Bro. Scar
borough's article is small, resent
full and ungodly, not sentence
in it to bespeak the mild, the
minister Of Christ. He seems all
withered like "Moore's Fallen
Angel who, after betraying the
pass word of heaven to mortal
woman, found that his bright
wings had lost their strength and
lustre and lay dead and notion
less by his side fcreyer.
His extempore prayer is a tri-
fling with very sacred thing,
and bringing of the devil in to
help him sustain his weak argu-
ment. His Satanic Majesty is a
poor prop for prominent minis
} ter 20 seek alliance with. His
whole article discloses the disap-
, pointed seeker who, like mad :
dened snake in the blind season