Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1906-08-09

The st. marys Holiness Moves
mont.

uuby ~ One Dk hue Ihft&tlan mtDib-
tiers living here 10 expose.
These unprincipled men 20 from
house to house telling the people
that all the churches but theirs are
dead and will soon be damned that
II they don / get holy right away, as
they tell them, shey will be damned
too.
In this way they impose on people
not we'll informed. and lead them
astray. These men have been oper-
atinR 10 our county for nearly three
years, aud while their vision has
been over keen In searching for
the mote IN their neIghbors eyes
II has ever been blind TO tho beam
in their own. In all charity be II
written, but those who profess 10
teach holiness should lead holy lives
and should hive their consciousness
clcar and their charaaters above ro-
proach before they impugn the mo-
tives aud assail the characters OF
their felIow-mon. How these So
called teachers meet this require
ment / leave 10 their own hearts,
and to those who know them best
for answer
These holiness leaders covenanted
with me not 10 organize their society
in our midst and | thought they
would not, and hope1 they would
soon go away. But now, they have
violated their every pledge 70 me.
and have organized their society at
Holly wood and have settled down 70
stay.
Now, am not grieved 80 much
because they hayefo0led mo aud de-
ceived me. nor because they have
hurt mo Or my churches, for thoy
have done usIIstIe damage, but am
grieved that such men should 90
about our county deoeiying the poo
pie Ia the name Of religion. and es-
pecially seIzing upon that most holy
doctrine 81 holiness and sanctIfica-
ton so fully believed 10 and iaughs
by us MefhodIsts as BibIedocsrine
and experience.
sound anoteoi warning. Ineed
not address myself 10 Catholic PEG.
pie, who are too we'll trained 70 DO
deceived by their rawlings. But 10
all our protostant people Ia this
county say, don 20 totheIr meet.
ings. nor LET your children 60. nor
allow them 70 hold meetings Ia your
houses, nor contribute anything 10
support such men. E.et them AZ.
veroly alone, for they are deceived.
and A. such arc deceivers 81 fhe
people. They are utterly incompe.
tent 10 leach religion they know
nothing Of doctrine. Thoy talk much
Of experience. They have neither
academic nor theological education,
and someof thun canDot read chap
tor Of the New Testament accurate.
ly TO save their lives.
Their isolation makes them IRE.
sponsibleexcept 70 public sentiment.
They mol only hold the truth o. God
in unrighleoasness, but they lay
themselves open 81 have their per-
souai yeracity impugned. For an
illustration they covenants with me
not 70 organize their society within
my work Then They willfully break
that covenants, and unblushingIy d..
ny they made IL Again they telI
me they we're turned out 81 our
church for preaching holiness and
when cornered with the ialsehood,
deny they ever told me, and con.
tinue 70 20 up and down the county
preaching holiness aud protesting
70 be sanctitied" men.
The most ignorant white or black
man In this county would say Of
men who do such things that they
were neither holy nor sanctifed
men.
They have fashion Of going 10
houses aud after they have abused
oil the churches but their own and
damned everyone who does not be
liege with them as hollward- bound
sinners, ask the privileges 81 the
house 10 pray, and then get down
and hypocriticaIly pray FOR the res
pectable Christians they have scan.
dalized.
One Of these men, within three
days, came 10 my house and do
bounced the teachings Of my church
and the preaching Of my brethren
In the ministry, and, at the same
time most positively denied telling
me two things which would reflect
unfavorably upon him when CON
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