The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-09-02
REPLY TO BRO. SCHILLING.
THRICE IS HE ARMED, WHO HATH
HIS QUARREL JUST

STEERING himself with the plural WE.
This latter pronoun is very
companionable one, and is like
Samson's riddle to the Philistines.
very hard to guess, as the swe'
may mean as many as composed
the army Of Xerxes, or it may
mean but tone more man. Before
the potent @we" that the brother
has rallied to his aid, he may ex-
claim:
Our blades are thousand, our
hearts are but one.''
Memo may be excused for ex-
claiming, in the language of
Homer:
Greece in her single heroes strove in
vain,
Now hosts oppose me, and I must be
slain"
My brother can here bring in
the prophecy to his aid, and ex-
claim with old Jacob in his ad-
dress to God, Genesis 49:19--"A
troop shall overcome him." Pos
sibly the word TROOP may apply
TO the new hosts that Bro. SIS
1--WE" personifies. Memo though
can take courage also in the same
verse relating to God, but he
shall overcome at last.
As Bro. S. asserts that it is
indifferent to him which end Of
his gun he uses when he fights
the holiness craze and he must
first fight holiness, as it stands
before the craze, and after an on
slaught, even though it be val
liant as that of Tennyson' 8 Three
Hundred at Balakavi, he will find
holiness still towering high in its
grandeur and power, while the
craze will be all Bro. S. can APP
propriate. Besides this shooting
with both ends of his gun, will
win him no premiums when he
appears at the great ministerial
schuzenfest of the Master, as no
anti-holiness guns will be unlim-
bered there.
Bro, Schilling began this news.
paper strife without any kind of |
personal provocation. He con-
cluded that a Waterloo attack had |
been made on the ministry, when |
no word either of insult or defa-
nation had been against any one |
of them. Memo had only review
ed their work as he had a right
to do, and the only one of them
alluded to by name was compli-
mented, but it is likely Bro. S. |
thinks he should have had the
compliment himself.
Bro. S.. being driven from all
his points except the anti holiness
one which he himself lugged into
the discussion, now interpolates
a new issue that Memo never made
nor accepted.
The new issue he makes is this:
"Are the Baptist ministers of this
section inefficient and unfaith-
ful?'' Now Memo never made /
any such an issue. Bro. S. hav-
ing to abandon his old ground,
asserting at first that ne knew no
OF any note "who is not
striving constantly and zealously /
to develop his people in the Chris
tian graces. ri He was at once
referred to three ministers of note
who were candidates at our last
primaries, and he was asked s.if
these three were during their cam
vass striving constantly to de-
velop their people?'' He never
answered this, but was as dead
before this question as Dagon
when he fell before the ark of God,
and he goes off to ridicule poetry
and Latin phrases, and just then
1as no gun to fire at either end. L
! love, and respect all our min
sIers and would be the last man
IN the world to cast reproach upon
hem, and no personal remark !
mas b sen made against them, but
is d writer ] am free to review !
heir work, and this is all shall II
10. Honor and respect and love
hem, dignifying and respecting
heir positions. Bro. s.. though /
las left his pulpit, and like Don /
vuixote when he fought the wind
MIL an night, thinking he was
aetlin8 with a giant, came out
= the morning with battered I
'hield ana broken sword, only to-
~ !: . Z aa by his fellow !
Knights. !
Bro. $ should meet Nemo'sI !
lrgunent squarely and not dodgel
opslness by printing an issue Ne-d /
1n eNs n1eae Ana Aher1 puttink1 1
alz ! y 6nd one side Of It. He hasl !