East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-07

Would Christ have signed the
pink circular denouncing the public
officials of Baker City and county,"
is the question asked the Ministers
association by Judge william Smith
In reply to the charges made
against him In the handbill, says
Baker City dispatch. Judge Smith
denies every accusation made against
him and denounces the authors OF
the circular in unstinted terms. prom
islng them that they shall hear more
from him in the future and defying
them to ''get UP in your desecrated
pulpits and howl" In a signed COM
munication addressed to the associa-
tion, the circuit Judge says:
Upon my return to this city
found The beautiful mess stirred up
by the holy men OF God awaiting me
and command such attention as no
decent man desires to give such lit
erary monstrosity as they had thrust
upon this community.
Baker City has always properly
been considered a town In which
proper sense OF the proprieties pro-
dominates and whose citizens come
as nearly doing unto others as they
would have such others do unto them
as can be found anywhere on earth.
Heretofore they have been taught by
the teachers of the law as propound-
ed by the meek and lowly Nazarene
to eschew evil and to do good. to seek
peace and ensue II.
"And there have been fewer cases
OF suffering from poverty and want
perhaps, than In any other section OF
our country, owing largely to the fact
that there is born in our people a re-
alization of the fact that charity
suffereth long and is kind seeketh
not her own is not puffed up, and
thinketh no evil. They know that she
doth not behave herself unseemly.
They show their appreciation of the
higher life by the attention they have
given to our public library and the
unfailing support they have also
given all church organizations. The
hand Of want has never been refused
the warm hand OF Christian charity
in this happy town, and all its citizens
have grown together with malice to-
wards none and charity towards all.
Insult to Children.
"Dissensions have never existed,
and whatever OF evil exists among us
our people can be trusted to correct
without the malicious and devilish
Intervention of men who seem to have
come among us for the purpose of
producing and prolonging strifes and
chickering's most foul and most la
mentable. No one has ever scattered
broadcast in our city literature such
as is intended and calculated to
bring the blush of shame to the faces
of our innocent children, or to Gre
ate in their minds surmlses or Won
derings as to what this term of this
yelled expression means.
II would Ike to ask you what the
gentle and forgiving Savior of man
kind said after he stopped and wrote
with his finder upon the ground.
Did he write "Heave Boulders|"
What have you been doing, and what
are you bent. upon dong? Would he
have signed that document in which
you gloried and continue to gloryY
Had you or any of you, members OF
the Ministers association, gone into
your closet and prayed to him for
guidance in that momentous matter?
The Devil Grihned.
ut seems to me that when You and
each Of you were born the devil grin
ned. When you were ordained to
preach the gospel Of him at the men
tion of whose name every knee
should bend, the devil laughed.
When you promulgated that pink
circular all hell roared with delight
and missions on earth have been ac-
complished, for In each Of your cases
surely the salt hath lost Its SAVIOR.
mo longer can you influence men
to follow you. All good men VIII
shun you as something to be loathed.
Even your own congregations, good
men and women who love their Mas
ter and know something OF him, must
even deplore your gross departure
from his tenets, even through Chris
tian forbearance they did not say so.
MEN love truth, and always respect
It even in an enemy. The devil hates
truth and righteousness and the doc
trine which he breaches and which
irradates his magnificent presence
which seems to be always with you,