The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-04-04
ten thousand times brighter than the


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"Blessed is he who hath virtuoua
wife, for the number of his days shall
be doubled"
"a silent and loving woman is a
gift from the Lord. P"
"a fool will peep in at'the door Of
the house, but he that is well nurtured
will stand without"
''Do not banquet upon borrowed
money"
Commend not man for his out
ward appearance, for many kings have
sat down upon the ground, and one
that was never thought of hath worr
the crown"
ga friend cannot be known in pros
perity, and an enemy cannot be hid IN
adversely"
"Use not much the company Of
woman who is singer lest thou be
captured with her voice"
"Rejoice not over thine enemy when
he is dead"
LEND not to who is higher than
myself, but if thou lendest count it
lost"
"Sit not down with the wife of an
other man in thine arms, for it will
bring thee to destruction"
'My son, help thy father in his old
age and thou shalt have Joy IN thine
own children"
"Have no fellowship with those who
are mightier and richer than myself,
for how can the earthen kettle and the
pot agree?"
"When q rich man speaketh every
man holdeth his tongue and extol it to
the clouds, but if a poor man speak,
they say, what fellow is this?
Guild not house with another
mans money, for it is like gathering
stones for the tomb of thy burial. J."
GA thief is better than a common
liar"
"Accustom not thy mouth to swear
ing nor to the naming of the Hoy
One"
against him that is niggard of his
meat his neighbors shall murmur.
keep a sure watch over shameless
daughter lest she make thee laugh.
ing-stock and byword in the city and
reproach among thy people"
Whether this book be inspired or
not, it is full of devotion to God and
gratitude for His goodness. The Old
Testament Hebrews canon was made
up and closed before this Jesus lived,
or perhaps Ecclesiasticus would have
been embraced in it. 1t is certainly
entitled to as much consideration as
Solomon's Song, for there is not a vul.
gar or lasciTious expression in it.
This much about the Apocrypha will
answer some inquiries have received,
| two of them from preachers. [ have
a long letter from my old friend, Bishop
Turner, concerning that recent publ
cation of William Hannibal Thomas;
that bill of indictment against negroes
| CT his own race. He denounces Thorn.
as. His opinion is that some learned
white man wrote the book and paid
| Thomas for the use of his name. He
says this is the opinion of those in
South Carolina who know this scape
gallows. He says, 81 am we'll ac-
| quainted with him; knew him during
the war in front of Richmond, where
some southern hero shot off one of his
arms, and it is pity he did not shoot
| his head off He is now receiving an
exhorbiSant pension from the United
States government. If there ever was
money paid to dog, it is paid to him.
If the white people of the south knew
half as much about his rascality and
Villainy as he has told me, they would
seek his blood. If our preachers are
so bad as he represents them, what did
he stop for and join the party of the
devil? He was one of the preachers
of my church and will be until hell
opens her arms to receive him." etc. +,
etc.
/ have been following Bishop Tur-
ner's course ever since the war, and
have never known aught against him
as a man or a Christian. In the year
1866, when our people at Rome were
under the oppression of Spanish cap
tain, one De la Mesa, Bishop Turner
acted as a mediator and tried to make
our condition more tolerable, He
made speech at Reese's Spring, near
Rome, that we all commended, and
did his utmost to prevent that Spani-
ard from exercising his foul DONNA
ton and tyranny. Ever since then
his pen and voice has been for peace
between the races. 1 am pleased to
speak of him as "my friend. BILL
ARP, in Atlanta Constitution.