The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-24
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Were ''Inspired," the Editor of the
Biblical Recorder Seeks TO Become
the Gar of all Church Members.
Dec. 13th,-the people of Raleigh have
noticed a new strut and more I-amSir-
Oracle air about Editor Bailey, of the
Biblical Recorder. He has walked the
streets with his head high in the air
and when he has seen ordinary morta:s
he has looked down upon them in a
condescending manner This new pompos-
ity has been remarked upon by many
but understood by few who have asked
upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
that he hath grown so great?" Some have
sought to know the reason. 1t has at
last been ascertained who is responsible
for 'his grandiloquent SWELL At the Bap-
weeks ago, preacher declared that it
was as important to read the Biblical
Recorder as the Acts of the Apostles and
that Josiah Bailey was Inspired 4
score of old-fashioned Baptists cried out:
THAT won't do, Brother Pace" and Bal
ley. with a display of humility said:
THE Bible is inspired while never have
possessed or claimed inspiration" But
this Marc Anthony preacher was detern-
ned thrice to offer the crown on the
Lupercal to this self-constituted editorial
Caesar, and he insisted You may not be
inspired, but l believe some Of your edi-
torials are inspired Bailey made no
editorials are the nearest of all earthly
things to perfection.
Let the public not deal too harshly
with the young edit. The responsibility
for his recent proclamation, issuing his
edict to the Baptist and Methodist
churches to boycott the News and Obser-
the Granville preacher that the editor Of
the Biblical -.ceorder is inspired-a sec
ond Luke, writing the Acts of the Apostles
OF the Tw- 2tieth Century. The praise was
too much for him. He took the preacher
seriously, and, from the hour that he was
declared inspired he has regarded himself
as incapable of doing wrong and as sudden
ly elevated to the mountain top, where h
slightest word should be regarded binding
upon the consciences of all men.
In all history there is nothing so like
to the effect of the preacher's praise upon
the young editor as is for in the famous
reply of Blaine to Conkli z in the Thirty
ninth Congress. The man from Maine
said
LAS to the gentleman's cruel sar-
casm, hope he will not be too severe.
The contempt of that large-minded
gentleman is so whiting, his naughty
disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his
majestic, supereminent, overpowering,
turkey -gobbler strut has been so crush
ing to myself and all the members Of
this House that / know it was an act
of the greatest temerity for me to ven
ture upon a controversy with him.
But, Sir, know who is responsible
for all this. I know that within the
last five weeks, as members of the
House will recollect, an extra strut
has characterized the gentleman's
bearing 1t is not his fault. 1t is the
fault of another. That gifted and sa-
tirical writer, Theodore Tilton, of the
New York Independent, spent some
weeks recently in this city. His let
tiers published in that paper embraced.
with many serious statements little
jocose satire, a part of which was the
statement that the mantle of the late
Winter Davis had fallen upon the
member from New York. The gentle
man took it seriously, and it has given
his strut additional pomposity. The
resemblance is great. 1t is striking.
Hyper on to satyr. Thersites to Her
cuies. mud TO marble, dunghill to dla-
mond, singed cat to a Bengal tiger.
whining puppy to a roaring hon.
Shade of the mighty Davis. forgive
the almost PROCLAMATION of the jocose
SATIRE
a few days ago. Mr.. Josiah Bailey.
editor OF the Biblical Recorder, ISSUED
through the Charlotte Observer, the Han
ma and Whiskey organ of North Carolina,
an order to the Baptists and Methodists
OF North Carolina to destroy the News