Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1904-08-04
MISINTERPRETED
The Spirit of Charitable Mo-
tive Distorted.

LII %%AeOUANANJ-D AAANo CP1 GINA IN
brought forth such a indicative and
Yituperative article in Mondays
issue of this paper, has no regrets for
what he wrote and nothing to re-
TaSs.
The object and aim of the article
was not to laud the deceased or con-
done any of his misdoings, but to
point a moral and draw a parallel,
showing what he NIGHT HAVE BEEN
had he used his talents to the glory
of God; and we thus sought to i'm
press some fellow sojourner on this
mundane sphere with the gravity of
crime: cause him to halt and think
on his I'M Of life as he Wanders
toWard s'that bourne from which no
traveller ever returns"
Read from an unprejudiced stand
peint we fail to understand how any
right-thinking and charitably-mind-
ed person could have taken it other
kise than as the writer intended it.
N#& cone Who Knows" saw fit to
twist and distort the article so merci-
lessly as to dig out an entirely diff
ferent meaning. And we must say
that the attack on the deceased, and
even on this writer, was ncharitable,
un-Christian, and particularly II
called for, and seemingly animated
from a heart that feels no compunc-
ton in opening fresh wounds and
causing innocent hearts to bleed
anew.
If the writer of yesterdays article
knew so much of the dark side of
Speight's life, it is to be presumed
he has studied him quite closely, and
tits passing strange that this vas the
first. human being of which we have
any record that God has created de-
void of any good trait.
Certainly the poor man had his
faulS-serious faults-but who of us
is free from defects. And along this
line someone has beautifully said:
E.In me whom men pronounce as i'll,
L LIZ ~ SN " SOONtAA\1o Il
In MEN whom men pronounce divine,
/ find so much OF SIN and blot, [ hes
itate to draw the line
Between the two, when God has not. -
In all love, and without one iota
Of malice, we wish to point cone
Who knoWs'' to a truth that has
possibly escaped his notice, i. e.: II
the bitter feeling that. seemed to
prompt his article yesterday is cher
ished and nourished in his heart and
allowed to go down with him to the
grave, unrepented of, it viii remove
his soul as far from heaven and from
God as the crimes of Gray Speight,
unrepented of, will remove him.
Sand though l have the Gift Of
prophecy, and understand ali mys-
teries, andall knowledge; and though
| haye all faith, so that L could re-
move mountains, andAave not char.
ity. + am nothing.
land though [ bestow all mn
soa@s to feed the poor, and though ]
give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it prOtiteth me nothing.
1And now abideth faith, hope anC
charity, these three; butTHE GREAT.
EST OF E Il CHARITY"
i Corinthians 3, 8, 10
The Mr.. Lynch, of Green county
w41op Mr.. Speight killed (D with {
beer bottle, was in town to-day
VERY MUG ALIVE! He is the sol
"a "a yE0Ffhy- Tric611an JDo+-:.J
LYNCH, who, like his splendid father
and ali Irishmen, inherits a deadI,
hatred to all forms of oppression anC
WORLD scorn to speak a word tina
would u pain to those Ora,
SpGght left behind.
Weleave an undiseriminating an
impartial public to~judge betweel
the two articles in question, an,
promise, too, that this shall close tn
incident, 50 far as thisEwriter is con
cerned, for we only write'nnN in Gle
Tense Of u original position, wit
unc1Rritableness toward no one IAN
WITH conscience void of seeking It
ofhe1A.
We sincerely hope that this articl
willy not beget further criticism, BIZ
aus of the distress that it mus
cause to the hnocent little daughte
and the much afflicted widow. Spar
them. Do spare them, please!
'0HAS. A. BROWN
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