The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-09
PAGE NINE
A Young Man, of the SelfRighf-
eows Variety, is Very Hard
on Mr.. W0ts0n
Hon. Thos. E. Watson,
Thomson, Ga.

why not accept plain statement of the
TRUTH"
Mr.. Watson, of a staunch follower
and advocate of your political views, ideas and
doctrines, and brought up to admire your ap-
parent sincerity in your convictions of the right
l note with much sorrow of heart your comments
on What We Missionaries Covered Up Mr.
watson, am persuaded that you not trying
TO publish the truth to your followers as you
know it. You may inquire by what am per-
suaded. 1t is this: Your refusing to accept the
fiat denial by Mr. Wakefield and others of state
ments attributed to them and your accusing them
of perverting the truth by denying these state
ments and your accepting the statements made
by the newspaper reporters in preference of these
Why did you not require sworn affidavit from
these reporters we'll as from Mr. Wakefield?
Why did you ignore Mr.. Towson's references he
gave you of men who had investigated the foreign
held and upon conclusion of same invested large
sums in Foreign Missions? You came back at
him by saying, There's referring to Taft
and Bryan" when these names were not men
toned at all. Your attributing the statement
above mentioned coming from Mr. Wakefield
to also have been made by the minister's wife
You very we'll know, Mr.. Watson that it would
nave been as easy for the newspaper reporters to
nave gotten the wrong report from the minister's
wife as from Mr. Wakefeld's lecture.
am further persuaded that you didn't have to
have Mr.. Wakefeld's denial of these slanderous
reports to know whether they were true or not
Any one who knows the least about missions
knows that the assertion was not true Another
thing | am persuaded you know, Mr.. Watson, is
that the spirit that prompts young and wom-
en- to leave home leave friends, leave loved ones
leave homes of luxury, leave environments of
CIVILIZATION leave all to devote their lives to the
0etterment of humanity is not the spirit that
prompts men and women to up something
that would degrade and defame their sister or
brother. Neither the spirit that prompts men and
women to think more of the collection of money
than they do of the lives of their noble sisters as
you boldly assert in your paper
Mr.. Watson, l have a father and he is not
Christian. He is a good citizen. He is a good
moral man; better I don't know. He is a
staunch admirer of your views, in fact leader
in his community. Since your publishing these
false and erroneous reproaches the Church of
Christ he is farther from Christianity than ever
Notwithstanding my efforts to show him the way
OF salvation. Please ponder these last thoughts
in your heart and give your bright intellect to
something that will draw the moral man nearer
the goal rather than drive him away. The moral
element of this world are as hard to reach as any
[ know of, and as a rule are seeking to find fault
saving power of Jesus Christ.) I sincerely hope
you will yield yourself to better motive than
what seems to be your uppermost ambition in
these newspaper writings.
Yours sincerely, X. M. MILLER.
Triton, Ga, Nov %, 1909.
ANSWER
Reader, have you ever perused letter that
more completely gave the writer away9 He
speaks of the Saving power of Jesus Christ"
Don't you think that he needs lot of it, about
as badly as any man that you ever knew?
Deeply concerned about his father, as we'll as
me, he wants both of us to listen to him, learn
from him, and thus get into the company of
the Saints. What lovely opinion of himself
this young man must have, to be sure! A
careful study of his extraordinary missive
leads me to the conclusion that his father
and [ are about near heaven as he is.
This native Georgian charges me with un-
fairness to our Illinois friend DIR. Paul
Wakefield. Young Mr. Miller contends that
| ought to have accepted DR.. Wake6eld's de-
NAL, about that lecture in Charlottesville, In