The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-21
Pastor's Reasons For
 Supporting Amendment

tially the same except that owing to peculiar local conditions there were allusions to the situation. in each case not altogether apropos in others.
 Tt has never been fully written out until today. My almost invariable cua- tom is to prepare only brief notes or a synopsis of a sermon I intend to preach; and whilst this sermon ac- tually consumed f1fty-four minutes in its delivery yesterday, the notes had in the pulpit can easily be read over in ten minutes. Hence must. in writ ing it out for you now, depend on my memory for four -fifths of what I said. It would simply be impossible for me to repeat every sentence just as it was uttered. but I feel confident you will find herein every essential thought I presented yesterday Had 1t once occurred to me that you would care to publish the sermon, I would have been glad to write it all out in advance. and thus to have been able to furnish you my ipsissima yer ba.
 want to ask of you that as have ben at some pains, In response to your kind request to prepare as faith ful reproduction of the sermon as l am able. you will publish the whole or 1t as herewith presented, along with this word of explanation You can easily see that mere paraphrase on some selected sentences of my sermon could not be satisfactory to me. Hence, If you do not want to publish it as whole would thank you not to pub fish any of 1t. I have not the slight est objection to any fair criticism of my sermon you may care to publish
 With kind regards.
 nVery truly yours,
 'Neander Nj. Woods.
 Montgomery, Sept. 20, 1909"
 The OK That Cores Men To Death.
 'If an OK gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the OK shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: but the owner of the OK shall be quit. But if the OK were wont to push with his horn in time owner. and he hath not kept him in. but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the OK shall be stoned. and his owner also shall be put to death.
 The Law of Moses made much of the sacredness of humanelif and 1t fastened the responsibility for crime on the really guilty parties. Oxen were among the most valuable of do- mestic animals. and it was proper to own them. But 1t was the business or the owner to bear in mind that oxen
 
 fully looked after. If an OK. that the owner had never known to be vicious should kill man, he had to be slaughtered, and as a reminder to the owner he was forbidden to eat of the flesh of that animal-he had to lose it entirely-but the owner, in such a case, was not further answerable for the killing of the man or woman. But the Law practically said to all owner of oxen that where an OK was known to be vicious, therefore a menace to society. the owner was bound to keep him in,' that is, he must keep that animal carefully fenced in so that no person could be injured by him-that OK was to be counted a dangerous beast, and every safeguard employed to prevent his doing mischief. Now, if the owner, knowing the proneness of that OK to push with his horn.' failed to fence him in securely, and he attacked and killed a man on woman, then the Law treated the owner as a murderer, he and his OK both were put to death.
 "It was a case of culpable negli- gence or wicked connivance that mer- ited capital punishment.
 '"rhe principle at the basis of that Law was that murder can be commit