The leader., 1904-11-02
WHISKY pRINKINe BApTKTS.

D4OAi az AtNt&fNct0S ILL N15 ~ ~ Ah
lin county, on Oct. 18th, which
The Leader was specially request
ed BY the Association to publish.
The reading Of this report re-
minds the editor Of q good story
on whisky drinking Baptists
which came from Cofeeville
good many years ago before that
town was under prohibition. AS
the story goes, a Methodist re-
viyalist went to Cofeeville to hold
a meeting with the pastor in
charge, into which be soon plung-
led with proyerbial : Methodist
zeal and enthusiasm. The town
was almost literally taken at the
! time By dog-fennel, just then in
full flower; so much SO that it was
impossible to get along some Of
the ways miscalled sidewalks
without wading through these
noxious weeds nearly waist-deep.
When the meeting began to warm
lup and the people commenced
focking to it from the highways
and by ways, somebody complain
led7of the way many of the sisters
had to drag through these weeds
with their dresses, getting them
all wet and bedraggled at the
morning and night services as if
they had been through rain.
This furnished the Methodist
brother, who was full of sectarian
spleen and itching for chance to
give the Baptists a good dig, the
opportunity he desired, and at the
service chat night after he had
taken his text and began to
rousate," he said:
Talk about this dog-fenneI on
your streets keeping people away
from the house of God, let me
tell you people something. If
you'll just get some whisky and
Sprinkle the dog fennel well with
it, the Baptists Of this town will
eat up the last sprig of it before
breakfast tomorrow morning.
According to that Methodist
evangelist's idea and this Temper
ance report, adopted by aBaptist
body, about all that is necessary
to clean all the dog fennel and Bit
ter weeds out of Lincoln county,
lis to give them a good sprinkIing
with red liquor and turn the Lin
coin county Baptists loose on
them.
Seriously, the report recites a
condition of affairs that is dis
grace to the Baptist denomination
of Lincoln county and reproach
to the cause of Christ which these
hisky-drilking church members
profess to represent. The Lead
er can speak authoritatiyely when
it says the report is not true toany
appreciate degree as applied to
the membership of the Brookha-
ven Baptist church, but if it had
not been true, as concerns many
of the Baptist churches CONSTITUTE
ing the Lincoln County Baptist
Association, we do not believe it
would have been written by its
author or adopted when read be-
fore that body.
Every Baptist church in the
county ought to post this report
conspicuously on its door and
walls and keep it there until it
closes its doors in very shame, or
rises.to AUST sense of its response
bility and rids itself of the whis-
ky drinking members who are
disgracing it and bringing re-
| proach upon the Christian relig-
ion. Think of man sneaking
around buying whisky from blind
tigers. winking at, if not actually
committing perjury, or sending
of for jugs and spending more
money in a month for whisky than
he gives in a whole year for the
support Of the gospel, and then
one having the unspeakabIe gall
to call himself Christian and
claim fellowship in a church Of
Jesus Christi
rlcGrath will give away SlO.-
90 in cash every Saturday, be-
/ ginning Nov. 18th. See .sad''
on front page,