Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-08-18
A Reply to Uncle Toms Chat.

After reading an article In
Mrs. Grundy entitled Uncle
Toms Chat in which he heaps a
TRADE of abuse against the
Travelling Evangelists and styles
them as Second Blessing Tramps,
and Judging from the spirit in
which he writes thatif he, Uncle
Tom, had been living in the days
of Christ's ministry that instead
of falling in line with the lone
man of Gallilee and following
him through evil as well as good
report he would have joined the
bowling mob and said "Let Him
be crucitied," Matt: q, %. In
his ignorance he fails to see that
he is fighting the cardinal doc
trine of the church to which he
belongs. Mr.. Wesley, the found
er of the Methodist Church,
preached sanctification as a sec
ond work of grace wrought in the
heart of the believer subsequent
to regeneration; but of course in
Uncle Toms eyes Mr.. Wesley
would be styled us a Second
Blessing Tramp. He says the
second blessings or reformed
drunkards take pleasure in tell
ing of their past lives and to tes-
tify. He is right about that,
they all love to testify as St.
Paul the apostle to the Gens
tiles tells us that he was bias
phemer and a prosecutor, | Tim.
L: ID, but he said he did it igno-
rantly in unbelief. Perhaps the
blindness of poor Uucle Toms
heart caused him to write this
uncalled for article. No doubt
if Dear Uucle Tom would fully
meet the conditions and require
ments of Gods word, first clean
up, 2 Cor. Z, |, second present
his body, Rom. Il, |, third let
Gods will be done, | Thess. 4:3,
and let the second work of Grace
be done for HIM that he may no
longer see men as trees walking,
Mark s: "a, but would see clear
ly, Mark 8: 25. Uncle Tom you
should remember that IN testify
lug we gloryfy God and that the
testimony of Jesus is the spirit
of prophecy, Rev. 10: 10.
Uncle Tom in his article asks a
question as to who sowed the
seed of doubt in your religion.
He says, your evangelists. Then
of course the apostle Paul began
to SOW the seed of doubt in the
heart of Timothy. When he re-
minded Timothy that he was
ready to be offered, he had refer
ence to Nero's block on which
his life was taken few days
after writing this epistle, and he
tells Timothy to do the work of
an evangelist, 2 Tim: 4, 5.
Uncle Tom seems to glory in
the grit of our Westbrooks. Of
course that old bitter spirit that
old Nero, Herod and PLATE man
Tested, is among the people to-
day and all that holds them in
check is the arm of the civil
law. Who is the worst persecu-
tor of the holiness movement
today? 1t is the long face, to-
bacco chewing churcn member
who would be willing to debar
the evangelist from the church
today. Is it the sinner? No it
is the church member. Luke / ::
81. If st. Paul could enter some
of our high toned churches today
and preach as he did to the Cor
inthians, 2 Cor, | :: 10 in regard
to a second benefit he would be
called by Uncle Tom a second
blessing tramp. OF course such
men as Bishop Mallaline, Joseph
S. Key, @. H. Fowler, Rev. II. G.
Morrison, B. F. Haynes, and such
men as Adam Clark, John Fetch
er, Bishop William Taylor and
j. O. McClurkan would all be
Second Blessing Tramps in the
eyes of poor Uncle Tommie and
characters that God has taken
from great depths of sin such as
Jere McCauly and John Newton
would be called reformed drunk
ards and libertines. But christ
ians will never forget the name of
Newton whose religious piety fills
all christendom today. He
dreamed while n DroAigata sa;lor