Richmond planet., 1901-08-03
JUST AS SENSIBLE.

JUST AS SENSIBLE.
Well, it would have been Just as SEN
sible to have cited a teacher to appear
for teaching, preacher for preaching,
| a cook for cooking, a nurse for nursing.
washerwoman for washing, waiter
for waiting, or employee IN a restau-
rant for serving meals on the Lord day
as TO call publisher of newspaper TO a
church meeting for publishing in news
paper.
Yet this is that Brother Nelson Will
Jams, Jr., who forged the names TO the
application did and is doing.
Now Brother Nelson Williams, Jr.,
who forged the names TO the application
| doesn't even comply with the rule of the
church and the command of the scrip
| tures-heH not even commune because
he demands that the church furnish him
with pure grape juice instead of with
the genuine article.
CONSCIENTIOUS SOMETIMES.
Brother Nelson, Williams, Jr., who
forged the names 20 the application for
the meeting was conscientious ON this
point, but in studying the church polity
| at the place where a member C N be ex-
cluded without hearing and without
| even being cited TO appear before the
church, he forgot all about the 18th
chapter of Matthew fromthe 18th TO the
| 18th verses.
Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who
| forged the names to the application is a
missionary appointed by True Reformer
II. L. Hills Sunday School Executive
Board to do missionary work among the
Sunday School children of the State
EXTRACTS FROM THE SCRIPTURES.
If he will take copy of that Bible
| from one side of his capacious coat-tail
| pockets, or that mammoth carpet sack
and turn TO that chapter, he'll find these
| words, "l5 Moreover, if thy brother shall
| tresspass against thee, go and tell him
| his fault between thee and him alone; If
he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy
brother.
16. But if he will not hear thee, then
take with thee one or two more, that in
the mouth of two or three witnesses
| every word may be established.
II. And if ne shall neglect TO hear
| them, tell 1T unto the church; but if he
neglect to hear the church, let him be
| unto thee as an heathen man and pub
lican."
DIDN'T SUIT.
1 HIS suit
| Williams. He reached for the black
book-the polity to find authority to ex-
clude brother without going to him, as
| prescribed by the divine law.
He did not go to see Brother Mitchell,
( neither the Deacon Board as prescribed
\ by the rules of the church. On the con-
trary he said the Deacons would not be
] put out of the church if they behaved
| themselves.
Fancy young man speaking in such
| disrespectful language of the elders of
{ the church. Brethren, many of whom
have grown gray in the service of the
| church, Deacons, who are respected by
/ both white and colored people.
He referred to Deacons Abner' Cool
ey, Richard Briggs, J. @. Farley, Benja-
| min Harris, Thornton Wyatt, Walker
| Blakey, A. p. Johnson, CHRISTOPHER Viii
kerson, Harrison Smith, John T. Allen,
| Benjamin Jackson, James Wilder, S. w.
| Shorts, J. Andrew Bowler, r. J. Bass,
| w. 7. White and others would not be
removed if they behaved themselves.
He called meeting to exclude and
| signed the names of Brethren J. E.
Jones, Daniel Holman, and Giles Hay
den without their knowledge or consent
and then had True Reformer r. T. Hill
make an announcement at q slimly at
| tended meeting on Sunday afternoon,
And this is the sight presented to the
! world by Brother Nelson Williams, Jr.,
who forged the names to the applica-
ton for the meeting.
MORE QUOTATIONS..
In that same Bible which Nelson vii
j liams, Jr., the missionary, who forged
the names to the application, no doubt
sits upon but reads little may be found
in Matt. 5:44 these words.
Love your enemies, bless them that
! curse you, do good to them that hate
you, and pray for them which despite
fully use you, and persecute you"
But Missionary Williams, who forged
the names to the application for the
meeting evidently doesn't believe in
that doctrine.
He believes in mob-law, the exclusion
without a hearing and when he fails it
suits his purposes to say to Brother H.
+. Jonathan, Wen get him next timep
; The next time will be Monday night,
August, 9th.
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