Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-07-09
BILLY
He corrses Some Statements Made
BY the KewPApsrs.

Kp6ufHg the fair spirit Of Toe In
terror and desiring 70 correct an ef'
roueous impression given through The
grossly mlsrepfssented statements q
the press As 70 what : SAID 10 a speech
AT P,ttsburg before the Presbyterian
ministers. I send you this. No man
on earth appreciates the work OF the
minister and champions this cause
more thanf viii allos no man 70
lead ME 10 bis loyalty to The church.
~lli allow no mar 10 cad me 10 bis
furious and unc6BRFo@ssas assault
upon the forces that sap Der power
and make her an Incubator 10 hatch
the devils bred. / said many
preacher fails B. cause he has &C nat
ural ability; 10 cold-hearted has ice
mater AID pink Yea 10 his veins 10
stead Of red blood; lacks poper tran
ing; studies christianity a, others
study science Or philosophy Ministers
lack spiritual knoNledge-it Is tneo'
retleal with them; all the kngwledge
they have Of God or Christ Is an in'
teIlectual conception Of some Of hA'
attributes that they have learned 'a'
OF books They know Shakespeare
Browning-Emers0n aud the latest
kinks ID the New Theology dreamed
out oyer sumo beer mug and amid TOE
tobacco 10 some foreign seminary
Mary q prN acher comes intending T.
do guod work, but be tinds himself
pastor q some goddess. worldly church
where bis leading members are lead
ers in nothing but cArd-plsylng, dane
ing, theater-going, society, wine
drinking, Sunday golf-playing, novel
reading, observation-disclosures
gossiping mollycod1les-and when the
preacher brings his probe 10 bear and
attacks these sins they tie up theii
purse-strings and say: w don't like
that kind Of preaching, and II you
want 70 stay you must preach differ
ently.n
1 don't blame the preacher for bis
style Of work, but l blame himself
when these sins need rebuking and
God calls me to do 1t, then they criti'
else me and my vocabulary and man
nerIsms, which are as God made me-
I give God my unixed-up personality
l am doing my best to make IL easier
for people to do right and harder to do
wrong. / have been used OF God
TO lead over loo, 900 tostand for Christ,
| have been used to make drunkards
sober, thieves to steal no more, har'
lots to turn from merchasing their
womanhood for gain to leading pure,
upright lives; to turn homes Of sqalor
and want into abodes OF peace and
JOY. No one has more friends among
the noble, good, true, pure, in the
church and out than /; no one has
more enemies among the goddess, in
famous, useless, in the church and out
than l.
l never said at Pittsburg~ or any
where else that the ministers were "a
worldly, fudge-eatlng, grating lot Of
mollycodles ft for the bughouse. -
That was an Infamous, willful, mali.
slanderous lie sent out by some
ne wspaper. love the church that
Christ bought with his own blood,
with every drop Of blood Ia my body,
with every brain, molecule, ~corpuscle,
tissue, nerve, vein, artery and hair
in my mead and am pouring out my
life to help prepare her TO meet her
Bridegroom.
/ would like my critics to come for
ward and show what they have done
or are doing. This is the first letter l
have ever written In explanation OF
defense, and should not have written
this only | want the ministers to know
/ would die for them and the minis
try and that reports as TO what / said
were wrong. Yours on the firing line
for God, home and native land.
w. A. SUNDAY.
Interior.