The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-03-31

yet 1 do not believe all that is said on either
side.
know nothing ofthe effect OF prohibition
in other counties Of this State. I believe,
however, that when prohibition fret goes In
to effect, there IL q mark ed or notable result
for good. But I believe that such good re-
suits are only temporary. and that In time
the pendulum swings back. I can certainly
testify to this being the case during the time
that Abbeville had legal prohibition. Bsfore
the end Of one year a good old church elder
carried around for signature a petition TO
the Legislature to restore the license system.
Prohibition resulte 4 In less than a year In
utter and absolute failure In this towo.
Again: When the Courts held up the dis
pensary for several months. many res.
tsurants were reported to be about ready to
open for the understood purpose OF supply
ing customers with liquids as we'll as With
solids. In order, therefore, to prevent such
q decentralization as would follow that event,
the town council took action 10 prevent the
threatened evil. l understand, the town
council had no authority to grant Licenses,
but that body In thelr wisdom while acting
for what they thought to be for the best it
terests of the people. granted, 30 TO speak, In
dulgences for three months for Sl25-or, In
other words: If SIPS was paid, no prosecution
would be instituted. My recollection is. that
by this action the host OF negro restaurants
we're shut of and only three while men paid
the Sl25. With a dozen negro restaurants,
where LIQUOR could be had, a fearful condition
was dreaded.
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Misrepresentation OF me as 10 foreign mis-
slons. I have never given foreign missions
very much thought. 1 have no decided
opinion about 1t, and have no recollection
OF having written q liue on the subject. But
l am unallerably opposed 10 the A. R.P.
Synod levying a tax on home mission
churches TO support In luxury anybody's Kin
in Mexico or else where. Such act. I be! ieve,
is not only unsoriptural but repulsive to a
proper sense otcommoD justice. The synod
has no Soriptural authority to tax members
OF the home mission church for missions. II
missions are supported by free will offerings
and the people know the facts. as to expsndi.
lures, It is right and proper for them to do so.
There certainly is no authority Of scripture,
law, or common justice in crushing home
churches to raise money for visionary or
chimericsl schemes among strangers. AS a
matter OF fact. this nepotism In the A. r. P.
Church originated elsewhere than In the
minds OF the people, who. as far as I am Inn
formed. have never been consulted on The
matter. While the authority to crush home
churches for any purpose 10 nowhere found,
l think there Is something In the Scriptures
like this:
"But II any provide not for his OWE, and
specially for those ofhla own house he hath
denied the faith, and ID worse than an In.
fdel"
VIII you tell me II crushing home mission
churches is providing for the household OF
faith?
think the Mexican Mission has ridden this
people, like the Old Man OF the Sea. for thirty
years, and that II Is about time for the people
TO assert their self-respsct, by refusing to be
held up for either the benefit Of anybody's
kin or In the hope that the impossible may
be accomplished In Mexico.
Except possibly the kindred OF the miR-
sionaries and their satellites l do mot believe
that there is a man in the A.. r. z. Synod who
would lay his hand on his heart and ray that
he believed that we have had adequate re-
turns for the vast x expenditure which has
been made In Mexico. AS well as l can
understand from the minutes about 5000, 900
has been sent there. Ifthere Is a man out
side OF the aforesaid kindred and their safe
lites who would say that there is a reason
able nope for future success In Mexico, l
would refer him to the reports Of our mis-
sionaries as they appear In the minutes and
to the recent letters of Rev. 7. @. Boyce In the
Presby terian newspaper. II he would still
persist In believing that the Mexican Mission