The Columbus journal., 1910-03-16

teOtISIIeS 8uU IclOIu8SOtsecS sObOs
homes and lunatic asylums.-Fairbury
Journal.
A ROW WITH PREACHERS.
Ebert Hubbard: Bishop Quayle
about . year ago. one Sunday evening,
took me as q text.
He Was expatiating on my life from
the Sacred Desk, when . women arose
in the audience and stood perfectly
still.
Such q circumstance Is sure to dis.
concert a speaker, for he loses his audi.
ence, and then his confidence. The
people are looking II the still, silent
figure and wondering what next. An
interruption, even though planned in .
play, is always exciting.
The Pious Bushwhacker felt the
Kosmic Kibosh closing down on him,
like q summer cloud. He mopped his
brow and his voice became fled with
cobwebs. He paused. The little
woman said. Il know this man you
are discussing; and evidently you do
not, for you are stating that which is
not true"
Just then the organist got on to his
Job, like Jack Binns on board the Re-
public. The roar and rush of the in.
strument drowned the voice ofthe wo-
man, and on signal the audience arose
and sang, "Pull for the Shore" In
the meantime large poddy Elder with
pus plus, placed two fingers under the
right elbow of the little woman who
had stampeded the elephant, and led
her down the aisle to the door. There
she was dismissed with q warning that
If she ever came back she would be n.
rested On charge Of disturbing a religi.
Gus meeting. all as duly provided in
the statute.
In time agone ! have occasionally
criticized the so-called religious be-
liefs and professional methods of Rev.
DR.. Reuben A. Torrey, Rev. DR.. H.
Wilbur Chapman, Rev. Billy Sunday
and Bishop Billy Quayle, also certain
other Divine Billies and Sans.
None Of these gentlemen beiag able
to answer logic. have contented them.
selves, at odd times and sundry, by
calling me vile names. Also they
have dived deep into what they are
pleased to call my past" This "past"
not being sufficiently salacious. they
have taken the liberty of hand.illumi-
mating it.
Not 50 long ago the Reverend
Reuben Archer Torrey preached at
Montgomery, Alabama, and interject-
Ell into his glad tidiDgs Of great joy
these words: "In an obscure cross
roads town in New York state lives
one Of the worst men in America.
This man is Elbert Hubbard, who
publishes atrocious and blasphemous
tommyrot and calls it literature. !
am told that his publications circulate
here in Montgomery, and want right
now to warn you against them. This
Fra or Fray wrote hook in praise Of
q common woman. aud afterward
married her"
l refrain from quoting further. An
evangelist can use language in the pull
pit that am not allowed to circulate.
However, in the printed report Of the
reverend gentleman's remarks con.
corning my wife. l find the words,
"wanton," "immoral." aud shameless"
If there is any one thing that the
true American refiains from. it is r..
wiling the good name Of women.
have known men who would get
drunk. swear and lie, but who had
enough Of the remnant of the gentle
man left. SO they would not speak i'll
of women. Aye! l have seen in the
Far West men of this class slip their
coats of and offer to fight the traducer
Of some unknown woman. This Is the
memory Of mother. wife, sister or
sweetheart.
But here is an educated man,
q clergyman, . man with titles in front
Of his name and degrees behind, com
ing in the name of the Gentle and Low.
ing Christ, standing before thousands
of good men and women beemearing
with the slime of his foul tongue, .
woman he has never seen.
He raises back.fence.gossip to the |
dignity Of authority. through the posi-
ton that he holds.
Does Torrey Of Tophet think he can
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