The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-05-20
Popular Impressions Of Miss
Stone Are Erroneous.

Albanian, disgusts another able Bap.
fist preacher, also a former Albanian
DR.. Hawthorne, who was born In Wilcox
county, Alabama, and was formerly mas.
tor Of a Baptist church In Montgomery
expresses the opinion, according to a let.
ter received from Richmond, that "the
action of President Roosevelt In appoint
ing Dr. Curry special ambassador to
Spain would be one OF the issues In the
next Presidential campaign, and the voice
of the people would be heard on the sub.
ject."
II am a Democrat" declared DIR. Haw.
throne, land 1 am utterly disguised
with this show of aduiation for mon
archs. 1t is exasperating. and think
Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry
would turn In their graves II they knew
of the situation" Chat is an odd expires.
sion for a Baptist minister). IT came
near boiling over when the German Prince
was here. and 1t seems now an open ques.
ton whether this country will return to q
monarchy" Very absurd conclusions fos
so able a mani.
1T do not criticise any person, least Of
all DIR. Curry, who is a good Baptist, but
1 do criticise the principle and action of
sending a special embassy, which 1 be.
leve to be illegal and unwarrantable.
This is not my unsupported opinion"
declared this doctor of divinity, but II
Is the thought of a large majority with
whom have talked"
Doubtless DR.. Hawthorne must feel that
good people all over the country will sus-
pect him of at least small measure al
jealousy. Not only does he seem disgust
ed, but he seems angry. He talks as a
preacher shouldn't talk. Dr. Hawthorne
knows perfectly well that 1t is not IAN
open question whether this country will
return to a monarchy" through acts of
courtesy shown to other countries in the
persons of their royal representatives.
While he says he does not criticise DR..
Curry he does In fact seek to make him
appear as an agent of the President.
whose view Is the destruction of our
republic. This kind Of talk is not only
unworthy of Christian minister, but IL
is unworthy of any man.
lDfs ItdWlHOTHe, WIOH all we AldDdtn-
ians know and esteem, assumes a posi-
ton In regard to DR.. Curry's national
mission of good will which no one of the
millions of Baptists In this country can
countenance, for If there be any organiza.
ton of absolute independence. good will
and Christianity in this country it is the
Baptist church. Every single Baptist
l.
under the law of God, and 1t acknowl;
edges none but the Godhead as its mas.
ter. 1t knows no central or individual
earthly authority and therein, as its adj
herents hold, lies its marvellous strength
as the greatest non-Catholic power in
this country.
1t is maintained by his friends in WASH
ington and elsewhere that DR.. Curry, who
long ago ceased to be regular preacher,
objects to being entitled doctor of divin-
ity, a distinction given him nearly fifty
years ago by the dear and famous old
Howard College, now doing noble work
in East Lake, a suburb of Birmingham.
that he is mere scholar, not preacher.
Let tnat De as ne desires. But II cannot
be that he is aware that his denial of his
distinction is painful to the great
majority of American Baptists.
And another fact that wounds his army
of friends In Washington Is that one set
forth in the press dispatches from Mad
rid to the effect that he called at the
palace to pay his respects to the Prin-
cess of the Asturias,' and that both
were happy In renewing old acquaint-
ance." The Princess of the Asturias, the
elder of King Alphonsos two sisters, was
but years old when 1t was possible for
DR.. Curry to see her last, previous to his
present visit. 1t is held to be impossible
that her royal highness remembered Dr..
Curry as IAN old acquaintance" and 50
the aged preacher places himself in a
painful position 1t being very properly
held that he shaped the tenor of the
press dispatches concerning himself. 1t
is feared in Washington that DR.. Curry's
age is telling upon his reason.
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.