Mexico Missouri message., 1901-03-21
A Warm Controversy.

The article below, taken from
the st. Louis Republic, will inter
est all Mexico pcople-thc DIR.
Palmorc referred to is well known
here and has preached here num-
Der of times. The Republic says;
Southern Methodists of st. Lou
is are considerably stirred by II
controversy between the Reverend
Doctor Joseph II. Young, pastor
of Centenary NJ. +. Church, South,
and the Reverend Doctor W. b.
Palmorc, relative to some utter
anccs of the latter in the columns
of his church paper, the st. Louis
Christian Advocate.
The trouble was all Occasioned
by the publication of II certain
temperance cartoon and editorial
last week. The cartoon repre-
scented the "Saloon Octopus with
its hands on the mouth of the
press, the pulpit, the politician,
the legislator and the chief cXccu-
tive, whose business it is to en-
force law. There We're also Ger
tain statements made in the aC-
companying full-pagc editorial
which was calculated to touch ten
der spots in the scnsibiliticS Of
those within the scope of the ear
toon published.
All this, coming within the pur-
view of the pastor of Centenary,
made him write forthwith II red
hot reply to Editor Palmorc, which
is published in this week ; issue,
together with another full-pagc
editorial, but no cartoon.
The opening paragraph of Doe
tor Young's reply is as follows;
MY Dear Doctor Palmore-Iour
editorial of last week is but one of
a number in which you have taken
occasion to Islander the Methodist
pulpits of our land | say SANDER,
and ! mean what | say, for in the
absence of proof such statements
as YOU have made in the Advocate
are defamatory and tend to the in
jury of all ministers Of the Cos
pei"
Farther along in his letter Doe
tor Young says: YOU say that
the demon of the liquor traffic
has been using some bishop at
either 800 or 800 a night, and
paying him out of funds largely
contributed by American brewers.
Would you object to giving us the
name of that bishop and Your au-
thority for publishing such Il re-
voting charge against him! |
cannot believe that any bishop IN
either branch of our Methodism
would be guilty of such Il heinous
crime. If YOU know the facts and
conceal them, You become parti-
cepS crimims. Let us have the
| light.
Next you turn Your attention
to the church, to which you owe
all YOU are in this world, and say
of her, She expects of her pastors,
who shepherd the tOp-crust menu
bcrship, to raise Il great deal of
money for education, church eX-
tension and missionary work.
Then YOU intimate strongly that
the church expects these pastors to
keep silent on total abstinence and
| tcmpcra nee reform, in order to get
the money desired from these top
crust members. Shame on YOU,
my brother. to find it in your
heart to Islander your spiritual
mother
In reply to these and similar
pointed statements, Doctor Pal
more comes out III IN editorial
entitled "Seeing Ghosts in Kirk
Alloway," III which he recounts at
length his experiences III the grave
yard of Tam O'Shanter fame and
then draws the following moral:
This experience and narrative
are to show how II person greatly
excited can see things that have
no real existence. The octopus IL
luStration we used with an edito-
rial two weeks ago has called forth
the demand on the part of my good
brother for an apology for the
sentence, The saloon octopus has
us all muzzled, and we dare not
declare the truth.
This is more sweeping than
anything we have ever said or