The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-30
PARsON SHELDON SHOWN UP.

The Messenger never referred to
Rev. c. VI. Sheldon and the "blasphe-
my business but once, In fact he is a
character who never interested US. He
is OF the sensational sort. H loves
money and courts notoriety. Leastwise
that is the way it strikes us. He may
be earnest and honest, but he is full Of
the make A special from Topeka,
Kan, says that he will receive from
$4,000 to $50, 600 for his part Of the
profits from his one weeks editing.
Much better men work a a for one
tenth or one-twentieth of that sum. To
men who love and adore and honor
and serve the blessed Lord Jesus any
thing connected with Him Of the noun
tebank and blasphemous kind is abso-
lutely abhorrent. The idea of announc-
ing that T fellow would presume TO
attempt to conduct a newspaper of a
secular kind as the Son of God would
conduct it is presumptuous, abomina-
bic, despicable. He shows his character
in the announcement he makes in this:
Il will tell of my experience as editor
in my lectures this summer and fall in
England and the United States" This
reveals character. Always on the make
and for a new sensation. The Charles
ton News and Courier, a southern
leader in journalism, makes this fitting
After Steve Brodie jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge, he made an exhibition
of himself in the dance halls and bar
rooms Of New York as the man who
had made that fearful leap. Mrs. Lang
try, and Mrs. Leslie Carter, and Mrs.
James Brown Potter, and Olga Meth
ersole ave made capital out OF the
scandals with which they have been
associated. Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim
Corbett and John L. Sullivan, and all
the rest Of the bruisers and black
guards, who have done anything to
attract public attention, have employed
such reputation as they have gained
for the purpose of advertising them
selves as great attractions.
And now ome the Rev. Mr.. Shell
don, a regularly ordained minister of
the Church, who has made himself
hail fellow, well met with the Master,
and who attempted to run a Kansas
as Christ would do it, de-
claring that it is his purpose to tell of
of my experience as editor in my lee
lures this summer and fall in England
and the United States That is not
what Christ would have done, surely"
To show what Sheldon thinks of the
Christ. and how low his conceptions,
he put in his paper, as The New York
Tribune states, advertisements of
"Sunflower Pants" and "InfaIIible
Skirt Rule, Etc" Here is a sample.
Read and scorn the charlatan:
.EC,TTD TTTE or-DcnrT DErn
let in the rains, that refresh the
earth. Otherwise a large portion of
graciously sent by the Heav-
emily Father is wasted by running off
from the surface.
IS Subsoil Plow accomplishes the
stirring, as we believe would please
Jesus, who said let nothing be lost.
also, IS improved Potata Dig
ger, designed to work we'll, even in I'M
favorable conditions of soil, which in
duces good words, instead of bad
words. by which we desire to honor
"'S PLOW WORKS..
Topeka, Kansas"
This is very shocking and indecent
and distressing. No wonder the Tribune
administered to the clerical fraud a
severe rebuke. We copy a paragraph
and it is richly merited:
ITO every man of healthful, decent
mind, not to say of religious DISPOSE
ton, the Objurgations of an angry
truck driver must seem pure and rev.
erent by the side of this revolving,
sacrilege paPaded in the name
of Jesus the Christ by this Rev Mr..
Sheldon. A subsoil plough that works
as we believe would please Jesus
Faugh, 1t reeks of the Black Mass,
and calls for spiritual civet to sweeten
the imagination"