The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-10-08
CHRIST NEVER PREACHED
HANGING.

THE man or the woman who will re-
tail slanderous gossip or listen to it
ought to be hangej-those who tell it
by their tongues and those who listen
TO it by their ears. There is no person
more contemplate in all this world
than he who will suggest and insin-
uate evil about another person when
there is no evil. Those who undertake
to ruin the reputation of other people
ought to be sent to the penitentiary
and publicly disgraced. If we would
be delivered from the spirit of envy,
jealousy and hatred we must drive out
this spirit with the spirit of Jesus
Christ
And this from minister of the Cos
pel-the Rev. j. Whitcomb Brougher,
pastor of the White Temple in Port
land---in his sermon Sunday in which
he discussed the alleged case of at
tempted blackmail on Mayor Harry
Lane ana the murder of Harvey X.
Brown.
Drive out the spirit of envy, jealousy
and hatred with the spirit of Jesus
Christ Did Christ go about hanging
people or putting them in prison? Let
us see what he said about such peo-
pie. We read in the fifth chapter of the
gospel as recorced by St. Matthew, be-
ginning at the forty-third verse: Eye
have heard that it hath beer said:
Thou shalt love Thy neighbOr and hate
thine enemy. But l say unto you, Love
your enemies, bless them that hate
you. DO good to them which despite
fully use you, and prosecute you For
if you love them which love you, what
reward have We? Do not' even the
publicans the same?"
And again in that beautiful prayer
given by the Master whose teachings
the Rev. Brougher presumes to at
tempt to teach, and which prayer was
probably uttered by the congregation
lead by the Rev. Brougher. And for
give us our debts as we forgive our
debtors"
If that prayer should be answered
and the Lord should deal with the
Rev. Brougher every time he sinned
as he advocates dealing with sinners,
IT is quite probable that the learned
pastor would not have been able to
stand before his congregation Sunday
and utter such profanity. and disgrace
the pulpit which is supposed to be that
of a mercibul God. Taking the Bible as
the word of God, as the Rev. Brougher
breaches, there is little chance fol
the sensational minister unless he gets
converted and begins to preach g
doctrine of forgiveness. instead
of one of hatred. for reading
further we find: But if We forgive not
men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses."
We would advise that popular Bap-
fist divine TO begin at the fifth chapter
OF Matthew in thai grand old book
from which he processes to get his
doctrine, and read until he reaches
the eighth chapter, and then turn back
and read that sermon on the mount
again. and again and again, until he
has become familiar with IL Then il
he can begin to appreciate the teach
ing therein contained and can sub
scribe to that doctrine. let him go back
into his pulpit and preach it. If he
cannot, let him lay aside his ministerial
gown and cease teaching a doctrine of
human passion under the false guise
OF a servant of the Lord
, 1t is the proclaiming of just such a
Idoctrine as that preached by Rev
Brougher and the harboring of lust
those feelings of revenge and hatred
that causes such crimes as the murder
of Harvey K. Brown and the alleged
assault on Harry Lane which were re-
ferred TO by the pastor