Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-13
Southern Met6odists in the Wrong Rsw.
BY MRS. W. II. FELTON,.

at peace with all the world and trying to
do her duty to her Maker. who was out
ragged for hours beside the weltering,
bloody body Of her murdered husband. in
the presence of her own young daughters,
and I would ask that ecumenical council
to name the punishment that would meet
the indignity and inhumanity of the situ-
alton. They should reply, or the town OF
London would not be big enough to hold
| us together in a so-called meeting Of
preachers and official laymen Of the
Methodist followers of John Wesley.
After their applause of the words of the
negro bishop, that body of Methodists
should hear the truth in plain language.
or southern delegates should never at
tempt to fellowship another hour with
such a gang of fakdrs and frauds. mas
querading in the garb Of religious follow
ers Of John Wesley.
I am no apologist for any Of the evils
of slavery, but 1 am the defender Of in
nocence and virtue. do contend that the
wrong inflicted on the innocent woman
by the black fiend that pursues her like
a canine with rabies deserves no lighter
punishment than such maddog would
get when overtaken.
Such a fiend has no claim to respect or
pity, in my opinion, and when identified
such an unhumanized brute should not be
allowed to infest a civilized community
a minute longer than indignant relatives
I grant you that mistakes are possible:
where identification is not assured, but
when the suspected rapist confesses hts
guilt and the victim is SATISFIED a. - fo~a-
tity, which should be required, 1 am
quite as willing to trust a jury Of hun
bred citizens in the woods as a dozen in
the courthouse.
I would be glad to tell those maudlin
Methodist Britons that their butchery OF
innocent Beers in South Africa reminds
me of straining at gnats and swallowing
camels, and if they needed Bible quota
ton or illustration, I'd tell them the story
of the Inflated woman whose lifeless
hands lay upon the threshold" and
whose mangled and outraged body was
cut in twelve pieces together with her
bonds and sent throughout the coasts of
Israeli because no such foul deed of rape
and violence had ever been known or seen
among the children of Israel from the
time of their departure from Egypt into
the day that the outrage upon helpless
womanhood was thus perpetrated, and
''all the children of Israel rose up as one
man. saying, I'VE will not any OF US go
to his tent, neither win any of US turn
into his houses" until this wrong shall be
avenged. ~
womanhood went before the Lord and
asked Him. .sShall 90 up TO battle
against the children of BenjaniiE, my
brother?'f TO exterminate the amen or
every city, as the beast and set on fire
all the cities we came %.
The the Lord answered Israel, t'Go UP
against him.
Read the twenty-second chapter Of the
Book of Judges and the chapter preceding
for the facts here given The pursuers
gave the rapist the treatment they gave
to Obnoxious beasts, and the Lord said
go up against him"
The spirit of fiendish violence and the
epidemic Of lust which is now become
intolerable to the citizens Of America, in
the north, east, south and west, has
been tanned into a blaze by the shifting,
snarling self-righteous Pceksnins attend
ing the Ecumenical council in London. Let
them embrace the rapist{ip black II 1t
suits their nature and their understand
ing. but contend that southern Method
lists in good standing at home are now
finding themselves in the wrong pew.